August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 50m
English
The H.323 Recommendation assumes the transmission path between the telephony users passes through at least one local area network (LAN), such as an Ethernet or a token ring. It is further assumed that the LAN may not provide a guaranteed quality-of-service (QOS) needed to support the telephony traffic. As shown in Figure 9-2, the H.323 encompasses end-to-end connection between H.323 terminals and other terminals and through different kinds of networks. To gain an understanding of the scope and architecture of H.323, the entities in Figure 9-2 are explained in more detail next.
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