Voice Over IP

Preface

This book is one in a series of books called, "Emerging Communications Technologies." As the name of the book implies, the focus is on the Internet and private internets in relation to the support of voice traffic. The book is an expansion of Advanced Features of the Internet, also part of this series.

The subject matter of this book is vast and my approach is to provide an introduction to the topic. But in consonance with the intent of this series, this survey also has considerable detail but not to the level of detail needed to design a system. For that, I leave you to your project team and the various specifications that establish the standards for Internet telephony.

This book is an intermediate-to-advanced level text. As such, it ...