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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The book provides hacks for Windows, Linux and Mac based applications, and there are number of Mac-only hacks, so the relevance of the whole to the UKUUG community may be slightly reduced, but I still think this is a worthwhile wide-ranging set of hacks for general knowledge." - Mike Smith, news@UK, June 2006
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Höhe: 230 mm
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Dicke: 27 mm
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978-0-596-10133-6 (9780596101336)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Ted Wallingford began working with information systems at the age of 7, when his father brought home a used Timex Sinclair 1000 computer and a notepad of hand-written BASIC programs from a garage sale. This little machine was the start of an eclectic career in the business of bits and bytes. While working in the data center at ad agency J. Walter Thompson, Ted began to write articles for computer magazines. This led him into writing marketing materials for Gateway Computer and the former Amiga Inc., where he was also webmaster in 1999. As I.T. Director for a large, private construction firm, Ted transformed a single-operator midrange computer room into a mission-critical 24x7 data center hosting services for lines of business across the country. Ted has designed and implemented Voice over IP on networks large and small. He offers network design for VoIP systems and product management assistance for up'n'coming VoIP carriers through his macVoIP.com consulting practice. Ted believes that VoIP and the Internet are today?s revolution in distance communication. Aside from technology and writing, Ted has served as a member of the board of trustees for an international adoption agency in suburban Cleveland, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Credits
Preface
Chapter 1. Broadband VoIP Services
1. Get Connected
2. Use Pure VoIP Dialing with Your TSP
3. Wire Your House Phones for VoIP
4. Use a Softphone with a VoIP TSP
5. Prioritize Packets to Improve Quality
6. Got 911?
7. Update Your VoIP ATA Firmware
Chapter 2. Desktop Telephony
8. Access Next-Gen Voice Features
9. Track Vonage Account Info on Your Desktop
10. Pick a Desktop VoIP Client
11. Sound Like Darth Vader While You VoIP
12. Grow Your Social Network with Gizmo
13. Record VoIP Calls on Your Windows PC
14. Handle Calls with Windows Software
15. Let Your Mac Answer and Log Your Calls
16. Run Phlink Even When Logged Off
17. Greet Callers Differently Each Day
18. Use Caller IDs in AppleScripts
19. Control iTunes from Phlink
20. VoIP While Fragging
21. Google for Telephony Info
22. Telephonize a Sound File
23. Record an Audio Chat on Your Mac
24. Create Telephony Sounds with SoX
25. Mix the Perfect Announcement
26. Sound Like a Pro Announcer
27. Record a Videoconference
Chapter 3. Skype and Skyping
28. Get Skype and Make Some New Friends
29. Skype Your Outlook Contacts
30. Skype People from the OS X Address Book
31. Enable Site Visitors to Skype You
32. Speak Jyve
33. Teach Your Browser to Speak Jyve
34. Carry Skype in Your Pocket
35. Degunk International SkypeOut Calls
36. From Podcasting to Skypecasting
37. Answer Your Skype Calls, Even When You're Not Around
38. Use Custom Rings and Sounds with Skype
39. Emote by Sight and Sound with Skype
40. Skype with Your Home Phone
Chapter 4. Asterisk
41. Turn Your Linux Box into a PBX
42. Attach a SIP Phone to Asterisk
43. Connect a Phone Line Using an FXO Gateway
44. Connect a Legacy Phone Line Using Zaptel
45. Forward Your Home Calls to Your Cell Phone
46. Selectively Forward Calls
47. Report Telephone Activity with Excel
48. Kindly Introduce Telemarketers to Mr. Privacy
49. Build a Four-Line Phone Server
50. Master Music-on-Hold
51. Record Calls
52. Get Your Daily Weather Forecast from Your Telephone
53. Put a Happy Face on Asterisk Using AMP
54. Run Asterisk Without Root, for Security's Sake
55. Link Two Asterisk Servers with PSTN
56. Link Several PBXs over the Internet
57. Route Calls Using Distinctive Ring
58. Tune Up Your Asterisk Logs
Chapter 5. Telephony Hardware Hacks
59. Record Calls the Old-Fashioned Way
60. Make IP-to-IP Phone Calls with a Grandstream BudgeTone
61. Build a Custom Ringtone for Your Grandstream Phone
62. Tweak Your Sipura ATA
63. Build a Bat Phone
64. Brew Your Own Zaptel Interface Card
65. Build a Speed-Dial Service on Cisco IP Phones
66. Power Cisco Phones with Standard Inline Power
67. Customize Your Cisco IP Phone's Boot Logo
68. Configure Multiple IP Phones at One Time
69. Customize Uniden IP Phones from TFTP
70. Control the Lights Using Your IP Phone
71. Use a Rotary-Dial Phone with VoIP
Chapter 6. Navigate the VoIP Network
72. Monitor VoIP Devices
73. Inspect the SIP Message Structure
74. Audit a Network's QoS Capabilities
75. Graph Latency and Jitter
76. Explore NAT Traversal
77. Shape Network Traffic to Improve Quality of Service
78. Create a Premium Class of Service
79. Build a $100 PSTN Gateway in 10 Minutes or Less
80. Make IP Phone Configuration a Trivial Matter
81. Peek Inside of SIP Packets
82. Dig into SDP
83. Sniff Out Jittery Calls with Ethereal
84. Log VoIP Traffic
85. Secretly Record VoIP Calls
86. Log and Record VoIP Streams
87. Intercept and Record a VoIP Call
Chapter 7. Hard-Core Voice
88. Build a Killer Telephony Server
89. Build an H.323 Gatekeeper Using OpenH323
90. Turn Your Linux Box into a Fax Machine
91. Build an Inbound Fax-to-Email Gateway
92. Teach Your Asterisk Box to Speak
93. Build a Mac PBX
94. Monitor Asterisk from Your Perl Scripts
95. Build a SoftPBX with No Hard Drive
96. Build a Standalone Voicemail Server in Less Than a Half-Hour
97. Automate Your Voicemail Greeting
98. Connect Asterisk to the Skype Network
99. Forward Your Home Phone Calls to Skype
100. Get Started with sipX
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