America Shops At Home

This book describes the issues arising in deploying VoIP in emerging heterogeneous network environment. Along with a brief overview of the concepts, protocols, algorithms, and equipment involved in realizing VoIP, the book focuses mainly on two areas: the quality and performance issues in deploying VoIP over various network settings; and the new mechanisms, protocols in the emerging networks to assist the deployment of VoIP. Together, the book provides an unified view to the advances made both in the VoIP technologies and network technologies that guides the effective deployment of VoIP services. These include the details of VoIP in P2P environment (e.g., skype), VoIP over wireless technologies (e.g., Wi-fi and wireless mesh networks), VoIP in corporate environment using IP-PBX (e.g., Asterisk), and security issues in VoIP.