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The VoIP Cookbook
A Practical Guide To Internet Telephony Infrastructure

Onno W. Purbo, Independent IT Writer, Indonesia. 
Ph.D from Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada 1993. Has Published more than 30 Information Technology books in Indonesian.  Was a Professor at Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia.

SYNOPSIS: This publication presents a practical guide to designing and building a community-based and self-financed Internet telephony infrastructure. It is based on more than 10 years of practical experience with Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) at the community level. It explains the theory behind the architecture and operation of the H.323 protocol, which is used in deploying enterprise-wide as well as countrywide VoIP infrastructure, especially in Internet telephony and video conferencing. The publication describes how to download, install, and configure the open source openh323 gatekeeper in both Windows and Linux environments for various Internet telephony configurations. It fully describes the Internet telephony gateway, and shows how it is critical for the integration of Internet telephony infrastructure into conventional office Private Branch exchange (PBX) as well as telecomm infrastructure. 

FEATURES: As a training manual, this publication is very practical in nature. In recent years, VoIP has become the main alternative to traditional telecomm technology. The VoIP installation examples uses open source software, making it both affordable and practical for deployment in developing countries. Practical experience with VoIP has generated considerable interest within the worldwide community of ICT (information and communication technology) practitioners, who are now looking for tools to help them deploy their own community-based Internet infrastructure to bridge the digital divide. This unique publication is one such tool.

READERSHIP:

•	Academics, researchers, and students studying or active in computer science and electrical engineering.
•	ICT professionals and practitioners in Internet infrastructure, telecentre management, and neighbourhood networks.
•	Policy- and decision-makers in ICTs and telecommunications, especially in developing countries.

SUBMISSION DATE: Fall 2003

COPYRIGHT: International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada

CONTACT: Bill Carman, Managing Editor, International Development Research Centre, PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 3H9 (email: bcarman@idrc.ca; phone: (1-613) 236-6163 ext. 2089; fax: (1-613) 563-2476; URL: http://www.idrc.ca/booktique/)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. How to shop for VoIP equipment

Chapter 3. A glimpse at how the H.323 works

Chapter 4. Bandwidth requirements for Internet telephony

Chapter 5. A case in point: Indonesia’s VoIP MaverickNet

Chapter 6. The numbering plan for a VoIP infrastructure

Chapter 7. NetMeeting for Windows-based VoIP

Chapter 8. Video conferencing using VoIP infrastructure

Chapter 9. Gatekeeper installation

Chapter 10. Proxy gatekeeper in a proxy/NAT server

Chapter 11. Configuring a public gatekeeper

Chapter 12. Monitoring the gatekeeper activities

Chapter 13. The Internet telephony gateway

Chapter 14. The Internet telephony gateway as part of VoIP infrastructure

Chapter 15. Configuring the Internet telephony gateway via telnet

Chapter 16. Web configuration of the Internet telephony gateway

Chapter 17. Phone number programing on the Internet telephony gateway

Chapter 18. Integrating an Internet telephony gateway to PBX

Chapter 19. Direct connection to Telco

Chapter 20. Telco connection through PBX

Chapter 21. Borrowing Telco’s number in VoIP infrastructure

Appendix: URLs of Interest

References

											15 September 2003