Carrier IP Telephony 2000 Comprehensive Report

Format: Softcover, 337 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-75-7
Price: $495

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FEATURES

• Explores the past, present, and future of IP technology from multiple industry perspectives
• Discusses QoS improvements necessary to achieve real-time voice, fax, and video services
• Describes embedded gateway architectures and solutions for reducing packet delay
• Compares packet-switched and circuit-switched networks, indicating improvements needed by the former to achieve toll-quality, carrier-grade reliability
• Examines existing standards and regulations, with particular focus on the arbitrage advantage afforded by the use of IP telephony for international calls
• Offers concrete business strategies for leveraging IP–telephony services
• Analyzes the transition to IP networks and its impact on legacy systems
• Reviews progress to date on solving interoperability issues