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.

Switching to VoIP, 1st Edition

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...

[Publish Date: June 2005]

Hacking VoIP, 1st Edition

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. In addition to attacks on network...

[Publish Date: October 2008]

Hacking VoIP--New from No Starch: New Book Shows How Easy it Is to Attack VoIP

San Francisco, CA, October 29, 2008—Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is an increasingly widespread new technology that allows users to escape the tyranny of big telecom and make phone calls over the Internet. But while VoIP may be cheap and...

[Publish Date: October 29, 2008]

VoIP Doesn't Suck Anymore -- Meet Adhearsion: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly ...

By Jay Phillips

The Adhearsion framework, written in Ruby, takes a new approach to building VoIP applications: it’s an abstraction layer that both manages the underlying complexity and empowers VoIP applications with an unprecedented ease of integration. In this tutorial, learn from Adhearsion’s creator how to use VoIP for your new product, service, or hacker project.

[Publish Date: July 21, 2008]

Open Source’s (VoIP) Call for Change : OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Mark Spencer

Asterisk founder Mark Spencer discusses open source's role in creating VoIP and unified communications solutions that are changing the way we live and do business.

[Publish Date: July 21, 2008]

Ted Wallingford

Ted Wallingford is lead consultant and co-founder of Best Technology Strategy LLC, and is the author of O'Reilly Media's Switching to VoIP and VoIP Hacks.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Amy Blankenship

Amy Blankenship develops and project manages for the parent company of VOIP.com, using a blend of ASP classic, css, DHTML, and Flash to interact with data from a SQL Server back end.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Speaker: Jeff Bonforte: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Before Xobni, Jeff was VP of Social Search at Yahoo!, where he ran Yahoo! Answers and del.icio.us. Jeff also ran Yahoo! Messenger and oversaw its move from #2 to #1 IM client in the US. Before Yahoo!, Jeff was President of SIPphone, where he conceived and designed the Gizmo project, one of the earliest leaders in VoIP. In 1998 Jeff founded and was the CEO of i-drive, the largest online storage tool of the time, with over 10mm monthly unique visitors. Jeff joined Xobni as CEO in February of 2008.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Google Voice Set to Transform the Phone - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

In 2007, Google acquired the Grand Central Service, a VOIP based service that let users take advantage of a single phone number that could be used to forward to other phones, to record conversations and so forth. This service has been under the radar for some time, but today Google announced the new Google Voice, a free service based upon Grand Central that will debut in the next several weeks to new users.

[Publish Date: March 12, 2009]

Speaker: Dan York: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, ...

Dan York is Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation (link: http://www.voxeo.com/) focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. He is also leading Voxeo's move into "social media" with the deployment of blogs (link: http://blogs.voxeo.com/) and future podcasts.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Speaker: Jay Phillips: RailsConf 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 04 - 07, ...

Jay Phillips is an innovator in the spaces where sophisticated VoIP development falls apart and where Ruby rocks. As the creator of Adhearsion and its parent company Codemecca, Jay brings new possibilities to these two technologies through his work on the open-source Adhearsion framework.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

Speaker: Andy Schroepfer: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Andy has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP industry’s primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications, which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs. In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry. Before joining Rackspace, Mr. Schroepfer was a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for business use of social media applications like Facebook (/Schroepfer) and Twitter (@shrepfur).

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]