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By Theodore Wallingford
December 2005
Pages: 326
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-10133-3 |
ISBN 13: 9780596101336
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Interested in saving money, increasing productivity, or just impressing your friends? If so, then VoIP Hacks can show you how. This practical guide offers dozens of clever tips, tricks, and techniques for working with VoIP, the cool technology that makes phone service via the Internet possible. Hack your way to the phone service of the future-today!
Full Description
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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Book details
First Edition: December 2005
Series:
Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-10133-3
Pages: 326
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
Fully agree, September 18 2007
This is the partner in crime I use for new recruits alongside "Switching to VoIP" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/switchingvoip/)
I agree with most of what is said above, although I don't think I'll ever be comfortable of Linux :)
-Tom Payne Maintel - Business communication (http://www.maintel.co.uk/)
Nothing Short of Genius, February 09 2007
I've been in telephony and networking for nearly 30 years. Started in R&D at a PBX manufacturer in 1979, then did a stretch with the, at that time, worlds largest Ethernet company. Then I worked on a Fiber Optic Voice and Data MAN (IEEE 802.6) and have been manufacturing telecom products for the past 14 years. I think that gives me the qualifications to critique this book even without having to mention the Ethernet board I designed for IBM was featured on the cover of PC Week Magazine in 1987.
This is a very good book. If you are a VoIP systems integrator or do anything with Asterisk , this book is a must have. There are major problems with the current state of the VoIP industry. The two biggest problems are security and the unavailability of a decent broadband connection with QoS and an SLA below $400 per MegaBit. Yes $400, but we're talking guaranteed availability and less than 0.5% packet loss,and 50mS or less latency with real penalties for not meeting the SLA. Before reading this book I would not have considered putting an IP-PBX on an ADSL link. The author's idea of putting a Sangoma ADLS modem in the Linux box with PPPoE client software and controlling the modem queue is nothing short of genius. Then to top it off with the AstShape QoS scripts and the QoS monitoring tools, this book is an absolute bargain. With these tools I'll not only know if the ADSL connection is capable of supporting VoIP service, but I'll know exactly why. Much better than cutting over to the VoIP system and later discovering the problems. The whole book is just full of great ideas. There is something in this book for everybody from the Skype user to a single VoIP phone owner, Asterisk, or enterprise PBX administrators. Just check out the Table of Contents.
While the book is an asset for seasoned VoIP integrators, it is also a very good resource for someone completely unfamiliar with VoIP with a desire to learn. You can start out with free software for a Windows PC, progress to purchasing a single VoIP phone, then to a Linux PC. If you are leary of Linux, either get over it or you should probably stay out of VoIP altogether.
Media reviews
"...shows you how to get the biggest bang for the buck using Internet telephony."
-- Mike Berman, Jocgeek.com
"I found most of the hacks clearly written, with enough examples to explicate the descriptions, and there is a good balance among tools that could run on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X...definitely a book for the beginner- to-intermediate VoIP enthusiast."
-- Heison Chak, ;login:
"...covers the hack potential of VoIP technoloyg, providing dozens of projects for building a VoIP network, customizing hardware and software, nad using devices. Users with some basic background who love to customize will be especially delighted."
-- Diane Donovan, California Bookwatch
