
Internet Telephony
MIT Press
Published on 13. April 2001
Book
Hardback
390 pages
978-0-262-13385-2 (ISBN)
Description
Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks,
services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to
digital data, send it over available networked channels, and then convert it back to voice output.
Traditional circuit-switching networks such as telephone lines can be used together with
packet-switching networks such as the Internet, thereby merging communication modes such as email,
voice mail, fax, pager, real-time human speech, and multimedia videoconferencing into a single
integrated system. Because Internet telephony allows the interchangeable and seamless use of phones,
computers, personal digital assistants, TV cables, wireless, and Web technology, myriad combinations
become possible.The transformation of the Internet from a network application using phone lines to a
general communications infrastructure through which voice is but one of many data types offered has
a wide impact on applications, architectures, networks, economics, public policy, industry
structures, regulation, and service providers. This book explores these and other issues, and
considers future scenarios as Internet telephony continues to alter the communications
landscape.Contributors David D. Clark, Daniel Fryxell, William Lehr, Brett Leida, Terrence P.
McGarty, Lee W. McKnight, Philip Mutooni, Husham Sharifi, Marc S. Shuster, Marvin Sirbu, David
Tennenhouse, Kanchana Wanichkorn, Jonathan Weinberg.
services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to
digital data, send it over available networked channels, and then convert it back to voice output.
Traditional circuit-switching networks such as telephone lines can be used together with
packet-switching networks such as the Internet, thereby merging communication modes such as email,
voice mail, fax, pager, real-time human speech, and multimedia videoconferencing into a single
integrated system. Because Internet telephony allows the interchangeable and seamless use of phones,
computers, personal digital assistants, TV cables, wireless, and Web technology, myriad combinations
become possible.The transformation of the Internet from a network application using phone lines to a
general communications infrastructure through which voice is but one of many data types offered has
a wide impact on applications, architectures, networks, economics, public policy, industry
structures, regulation, and service providers. This book explores these and other issues, and
considers future scenarios as Internet telephony continues to alter the communications
landscape.Contributors David D. Clark, Daniel Fryxell, William Lehr, Brett Leida, Terrence P.
McGarty, Lee W. McKnight, Philip Mutooni, Husham Sharifi, Marc S. Shuster, Marvin Sirbu, David
Tennenhouse, Kanchana Wanichkorn, Jonathan Weinberg.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
76 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-13385-2 (9780262133852)
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Persons
David D. Clark is Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Principal Investigator of the MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium.
William Lehr is an Associate Research Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Associate Director of the MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium.
William Lehr is an Associate Research Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Associate Director of the MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium.
Editor
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, USA