VOIP

More and more businesses today have their receive phone service through Internet instead of local phone company lines. Many businesses are also using their internal local and wide-area network infrastructure to replace legacy enterprise telephone networks. This migration to a single network carrying voice and data is called convergence, and it's revolutionizing the world of telecommunications by slashing costs and empowering users. The technology of families driving this convergence is called VoIP, or Voice over IP.


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Hacking VoIP

Hacking VoIP, 1st Edition

By Himanshu Dwivedi

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks, the technology used to place phone calls through the Internet, suffer from the same security holes as standard IP networks, as well as new threats specific to telephony. Hacking VoIP reviews the many poss...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2008

Switching to VoIP

Switching to VoIP, 1st Edition

By Theodore Wallingford

Based on real-world experience, this handy solutions manual addresses the most common VoIP migration challenges. Find out how to build your own VoIP system, install it, and begin making calls--so you can start saving today. Ideal for IT managers, n...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2005

VoIP Hacks

VoIP Hacks, 1st Edition

By Theodore Wallingford

Interested in saving money, increasing productivity, or just impressing your friends? If so, then VoIP Hacks can show you how. This practical guide offers dozens of clever tips, tricks, and techniques for working with VoIP, the cool technology tha...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: December 2005

VoIP Drupal reaches out to the developing world - O'Reilly Radar

By Andy Oram

The VoIP modules form a door through which Drupal can move into a vast world of touch tone telephones, smart telephones, and text messaging, and therefore toward integrating a huge range of users in developing regions who use those technologies instead of desktop or laptop computers.

Publish Date: November 21, 2011

Practical VoIP Using VOCAL

Practical VoIP Using VOCAL, 1st Edition

By David Kelly, Cullen Jennings, Luan Dang

While many books describe the theory behind Voice over IP, only this one describes how such a phone system was actually built, and how you too can acquire the source code, install it onto a system, connect phones, and make calls. Because VOCAL is op...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: July 2002

VoIP encryption in a surveillance society - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP, will speak on Wednesday in Dennis Allison's class at Stanford about changes in the government's attitude towards encryption. From the lecture announcement: Phil will talk about how the debate on the use of crypto has shifted since the 1990s, when it was a a clash between civil liberties and law enforcement. Today it is...

Publish Date: March 05, 2007

VoIP handset on sale in UK supermarkets - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Over on slashdot:

Publish Date: January 19, 2006

ETel: VoIP in an Emergency - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

The day before Katrina made landfall, cell towers went down and with them went the area's cellular phone service. Landlines went down shortly before Katrina hit. Satellite phones worked until their batteries ran out and could not be recharged. City officials went two days without outside communication until they realized the hotel that was their improvised command center had a...

Publish Date: September 19, 2005

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

By Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant

In this third edition of Asterisk: The future of Telephony, you will design a complete VoIP or analog PBX with Asterisk, even if you have no previous Asterisk experience and only basic telecommunications knowledge. This bestselling guide makes it eas...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: April 2011

Other Editions: 1st Edition, 2nd Edition

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development, 1st Edition

By Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem, Ian Lawrence

Ubuntu Mobile is quickly being adopted by mobile device manufacturers and provides Web browsing, e-mail, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, and simple software updates on every mobile d...

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: October 2009

Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby? - O'Reilly Radar

By Artur Bergman

Foo camp attendee Ben Black alerted me to Adhearsion, a framework for developing applications in the VoIP space. Think of it as a Ruby on Rails for telephony. Developed by Jay Philllps who got frustrated by the slow uptake of Asterisk. Adhearsion is written in Ruby and lets those even without any VoIP experience write applications intuitively and productively or...

Publish Date: August 10, 2008

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Sparked by a recent posting to Dave Farber's IP list about a Texas university dumping Cisco's VoIP solution for Asterisk, and Asterisk-maker Digium's new round of financing, I wrote to Farber's list myself, extolling O'Reilly's own switch to Asterisk. The functionality has been great, with voice now just another internet application for us, with new features like voicemail to email...

Publish Date: January 03, 2007

AsteriskNOW - O'Reilly Radar

By Allison Randal

Digium, the company behind Asterisk, is in the final testing phase on a complete software VOIP solution called AsteriskNOW. In addition to the Asterisk software, it includes a simple GUI configuration tool and a custom distribution of Linux slimmed down to meet the needs of a dedicated Asterisk server. It's a smart move by Digium: the already popular Asterisk stands...

Publish Date: April 05, 2007

Flickrvision -- Twittervision's new cousin - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Just released today, Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos. Just like Twittervision, it's hypnotic to watch. The map moves around to show the location of the most recent tweet or photo. Both visualizations hail from David Troy, a VOIP consultant who has suddenly found himself doing a lot of geo work. David has really been expanding Twittervision. If you...

Publish Date: May 14, 2007

ETel: Interview with Surj and Nat - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Owen Linderholm interviewed Surj and me for VoIP News. They're also having a contest: best four additions to their wiki between Jan 12 and Jan 16 will get free passes to ETel, our Emerging Telephony conference. We've added Jabber and Google to the schedule, and we're closing the last few slots now. It's shaping up to be a blast!...

Publish Date: January 12, 2006

ETel: Voipster launches OpenZoep - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Voipster announced OpenZoep today at ETel. They want it to be the de facto client side code for embedding VoIP into desktop apps, web browsers, games, and so on. The wiki has information on the subversion and trac repositories for the source. It's Windows at the moment, being actively ported to Linux and OS X. They've had over 3,000 downloads...

Publish Date: January 25, 2006

 
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OST

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OST Student

"...it is obvious that all O'Reilly School of Technology teachers are pros. Besides that, the courses are done perfectly. They emphasize the important concepts and contain 'no fluff'."
– Kent Elchuk

Enroll Now >
Hacking VoIP

Hacking VoIP, 1st Edition

By Himanshu Dwivedi

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks, the technology used to place phone calls through the Internet, suffer from the same security holes as standard IP networks, as well as new threats specific to telephony. Hacking VoIP reviews the many poss...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2008

Switching to VoIP

Switching to VoIP, 1st Edition

By Theodore Wallingford

Based on real-world experience, this handy solutions manual addresses the most common VoIP migration challenges. Find out how to build your own VoIP system, install it, and begin making calls--so you can start saving today. Ideal for IT managers, n...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2005

VoIP Hacks

VoIP Hacks, 1st Edition

By Theodore Wallingford

Interested in saving money, increasing productivity, or just impressing your friends? If so, then VoIP Hacks can show you how. This practical guide offers dozens of clever tips, tricks, and techniques for working with VoIP, the cool technology tha...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: December 2005

VoIP Drupal reaches out to the developing world - O'Reilly Radar

By Andy Oram

The VoIP modules form a door through which Drupal can move into a vast world of touch tone telephones, smart telephones, and text messaging, and therefore toward integrating a huge range of users in developing regions who use those technologies instead of desktop or laptop computers.

Publish Date: November 21, 2011

Practical VoIP Using VOCAL

Practical VoIP Using VOCAL, 1st Edition

By David Kelly, Cullen Jennings, Luan Dang

While many books describe the theory behind Voice over IP, only this one describes how such a phone system was actually built, and how you too can acquire the source code, install it onto a system, connect phones, and make calls. Because VOCAL is op...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: July 2002

VoIP encryption in a surveillance society - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP, will speak on Wednesday in Dennis Allison's class at Stanford about changes in the government's attitude towards encryption. From the lecture announcement: Phil will talk about how the debate on the use of crypto has shifted since the 1990s, when it was a a clash between civil liberties and law enforcement. Today it is...

Publish Date: March 05, 2007

VoIP handset on sale in UK supermarkets - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Over on slashdot:

Publish Date: January 19, 2006

ETel: VoIP in an Emergency - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

The day before Katrina made landfall, cell towers went down and with them went the area's cellular phone service. Landlines went down shortly before Katrina hit. Satellite phones worked until their batteries ran out and could not be recharged. City officials went two days without outside communication until they realized the hotel that was their improvised command center had a...

Publish Date: September 19, 2005

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

By Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant

In this third edition of Asterisk: The future of Telephony, you will design a complete VoIP or analog PBX with Asterisk, even if you have no previous Asterisk experience and only basic telecommunications knowledge. This bestselling guide makes it eas...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: April 2011

Other Editions: 1st Edition, 2nd Edition

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development, 1st Edition

By Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem, Ian Lawrence

Ubuntu Mobile is quickly being adopted by mobile device manufacturers and provides Web browsing, e-mail, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, and simple software updates on every mobile d...

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: October 2009

Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby? - O'Reilly Radar

By Artur Bergman

Foo camp attendee Ben Black alerted me to Adhearsion, a framework for developing applications in the VoIP space. Think of it as a Ruby on Rails for telephony. Developed by Jay Philllps who got frustrated by the slow uptake of Asterisk. Adhearsion is written in Ruby and lets those even without any VoIP experience write applications intuitively and productively or...

Publish Date: August 10, 2008

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

Sparked by a recent posting to Dave Farber's IP list about a Texas university dumping Cisco's VoIP solution for Asterisk, and Asterisk-maker Digium's new round of financing, I wrote to Farber's list myself, extolling O'Reilly's own switch to Asterisk. The functionality has been great, with voice now just another internet application for us, with new features like voicemail to email...

Publish Date: January 03, 2007

AsteriskNOW - O'Reilly Radar

By Allison Randal

Digium, the company behind Asterisk, is in the final testing phase on a complete software VOIP solution called AsteriskNOW. In addition to the Asterisk software, it includes a simple GUI configuration tool and a custom distribution of Linux slimmed down to meet the needs of a dedicated Asterisk server. It's a smart move by Digium: the already popular Asterisk stands...

Publish Date: April 05, 2007

Flickrvision -- Twittervision's new cousin - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Just released today, Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos. Just like Twittervision, it's hypnotic to watch. The map moves around to show the location of the most recent tweet or photo. Both visualizations hail from David Troy, a VOIP consultant who has suddenly found himself doing a lot of geo work. David has really been expanding Twittervision. If you...

Publish Date: May 14, 2007

ETel: Interview with Surj and Nat - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Owen Linderholm interviewed Surj and me for VoIP News. They're also having a contest: best four additions to their wiki between Jan 12 and Jan 16 will get free passes to ETel, our Emerging Telephony conference. We've added Jabber and Google to the schedule, and we're closing the last few slots now. It's shaping up to be a blast!...

Publish Date: January 12, 2006

ETel: Voipster launches OpenZoep - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Voipster announced OpenZoep today at ETel. They want it to be the de facto client side code for embedding VoIP into desktop apps, web browsers, games, and so on. The wiki has information on the subversion and trac repositories for the source. It's Windows at the moment, being actively ported to Linux and OS X. They've had over 3,000 downloads...

Publish Date: January 25, 2006