Voice Over IP - Systems and Solutions (Btexact Communications Technologies Series, 3).

Seventeen articles, all written by specialists in industry (most, like the editor, work for BTexact Technologies), offer a broad treatment of Voice over IP, or VoIP. Among the topics are voice quality, access, telephony solutions at the customer level, international standards, SS7 over IP, gateways and the Megaco architecture, bearer-independent call control, numbering and naming, multimedia with H.323, and clearinghouses and open settlement protocol. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.