Product Description

Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could spell "saving big bucks" for your business! Here′s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.

Discover how to:

• Use VoIP for your business or home phone service
• Choose the best network type
• Set up VoIP on a wireless network
• Understand transports and services
• Demonstrate VoIP′s advantages to management

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155375 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

From the Back Cover
Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could spell "saving big bucks" for your business! Here′s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.

Discover how to

• Use VoIP for your business or home phone service
• Choose the best network type
• Set up VoIP on a wireless network
• Understand transports and services
• Demonstrate VoIP′s advantages to management

About the Author
Timothy V. Kelly has designed computer and telecommunications networks for companies of all sizes. He′s a professor for the Davis School of Business and Economics at ECSU, a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

A terrible disappointment
It's difficult to know who would find this book truly useful. It spends the majority of its time justifying why VOIP is a good thing for companies. It discusses various schemes for attaching your VOIP-enabled business to the outside world though doesn't have enough detail to equip the reader to actually go ahead and plan something. As a source of sound bites with which to impress the CEO, it might be useful. Unfortunately, I bought the book to find some useful insight into implementing VOIP in a SOHO environment. The only significant reference to VOIP in the home is nothing more than a justification for installing broadband. It's a chapter of a meagre three-and-a-half pages. An awful lot of the book seems to concentrate on assessing the cost of POTS services against VOIP. Unfortunately for UK readers, this is based very much on the way in which service operators charge in the US. The assumption that local calls over PSTN are free, for example, is significantly different to the situation in the UK. All in all, I found very little in this book of value.

A great intro to VoIP but a little pricey
This is a good intoduction book for anyone interested in trying VoIP and wishing to get a basic principal of the technology. However a cover price of £16.99 is a little pricey but you should make many times this back in call savings if you start using VoIP after you have read it.