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VoIP Hacks
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of
attention these days, as more companies and individuals
switch from standard telephone service to phone service via
the Internet. The reason is simple: A single network to
carry voice and data is easier to scale, maintain, and
administer. As an added bonus, it's also
cheaper, because
VoIP is free of the endless government regulations and
tariffs imposed upon phone companies.
VoIP is simply overflowing with hack potential, and VoIP
Hacks is the practical guide from O'Reilly that presents
these possibilities to you. It provides dozens of hands-on
projects for building a VoIP network, showing you how to
tweak and customize a multitude of exciting things to get
the job done. Along the way, you'll also learn which
standards and practices work best for your particular
environment. Among the quick and clever solutions showcased
in the book are those for:
gauging VoIP readiness on an enterprise network
using SIP, H.323, and other signaling specifications
providing low-layer security in a VoIP environment
employing IP hardphones, analog telephone adapters, and
softPBX servers
dealing with and avoiding the most common VoIP deployment
mistakes
In reality, VoIP Hacks contains only a small subset of VoIP
knowledge-enough to serve as an introduction to the world of
VoIP and teach you how to use it to save money, be more
productive, or just impress your friends. If you love to
tinker and optimize, this is the one technology, and the one
book, you must investigate.
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