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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Confrontation | |
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| The Telephone Business | |
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| The Internet Business | |
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| The Confrontation | |
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| References | |
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| Speech and Transport | |
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| Mean Opinion Scores and Quality | |
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| Frequency Spectrum of Speech | |
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| Digitization of Speech | |
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| Pauses in Speech | |
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| Speech Compression | |
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| Effects of Delay | |
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| Effects of Echo | |
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| Echo Control | |
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| Circuit-Swtiched Transport | |
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| Packet-Swtiched Transport | |
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| Other Telephony Service Impairments | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| The Old Telephony | |
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| The Overall Network | |
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| The Telephone | |
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| The Local Loop and Inside Wiring | |
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| Interoffice Facilities and Fiber Optics | |
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| SONET Transmission Systems | |
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| The Local Exchange | |
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| The Tandem Exchange | |
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| Common Channel Signaling | |
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| Digital Loop Carrier Systems | |
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| Mobile Networks | |
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| The Interexchange Network | |
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| Routing | |
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| Operations | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Inside the Internet | |
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| How the Internet Is Organized | |
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| Protocol Principles | |
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| Internet Protocol Suite | |
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| Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) | |
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| IP Addressing | |
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| Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) | |
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| Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) | |
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| User Datagram Protocol (UDP) | |
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| Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) | |
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| Ethernet and Switched Ethernet | |
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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM and AAL 5) | |
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| Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) | |
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| Reservation Protocol (RSVP) | |
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| Differentiated Services (DiffServ) | |
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| Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) | |
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| Routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP) | |
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| Domain Name Server (DNS) | |
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| Reaching the Internet | |
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| Access Using Dial-Up Modems | |
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| Access Using DSL Systems | |
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| Access Using Cable Modems | |
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| Wireless Access | |
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| Internet Protocol Version 6 (Ipv6) | |
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| Traffic | |
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| Security | |
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| Operations | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| The New Telephony | |
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| Transporting Voice | |
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| Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) | |
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| Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) | |
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| Network Time Protocol (NTP-3) | |
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| Achieving Quality | |
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| Call Control | |
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| H.323 | |
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| SIP | |
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| MEGACO | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Growing Pains | |
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| Goals for the New Telephony | |
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| Service Issues | |
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| Billing Issues | |
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| Customer Premise Equipment Issues | |
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| Location | |
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| Powering | |
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| Who Pays | |
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| Access Network Issues | |
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| Core Network Issues | |
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| Numbering and Addressing Issues | |
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| Quality Issues | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Operations Issues | |
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| Regulatory Issues | |
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| Lawlessness | |
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| Open Competition | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| The Players and Their Games | |
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| Why Take Over Telephony? | |
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| The Drivers of Change | |
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| Customers | |
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| Economic Climate | |
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| Finance | |
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| Regulatory Environment | |
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| Assets | |
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| Liabilities | |
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| Inertia | |
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| Responsiveness | |
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| Overall Drivers | |
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| Suppliers | |
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| Scenarios for the New Telephony | |
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| Business as Usual | |
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| The Telco Takeover | |
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| Top Down | |
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| Inside Out | |
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| Perfect Together | |
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| Dark Horses | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| The Future | |
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| September 11 | |
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| The Economy | |
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| The S-Shaped Curve | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Index | |