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VoIP Hacks Tips and Tools for Internet Telephony

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ISBN-10: 0596101333

ISBN-13: 9780596101336

Edition: 2005

Authors: Theodore Wallingford, Theodore Wallingford

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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of attention these days, as more companies and individuals switch from standard telephone service to phone service via the Internet. The reason is simple: A single network to carry voice and data is easier to scale, maintain, and administer. As an added bonus, it's also cheaper, because VoIP is free of the endless government regulations and tariffs imposed upon phone companies. VoIP is simply overflowing with hack potential, and "VoIP Hacks is the practical guide from O'Reilly that presents these possibilities to you. It provides dozens of hands-on projects for building a VoIP network, showing you how to tweak and customize a multitude…    
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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968

Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Ted Wallingford began working with information systems at the age of 7, when his father brought home a used Timex Sinclair 1000 computer and a notepad of hand-written BASIC programs from a garage sale. This little machine was the start of an eclectic career in the business of bits and bytes.While working in the data center at ad agency J. Walter Thompson, Ted began to write articles for computer magazines. This led him into writing marketing materials for Gateway Computer and the former Amiga Inc., where he was also webmaster in 1999. As I.T. Director for a large, private construction firm, Ted transformed a single-operator midrange computer room into a…    

Credits
Preface
Broadband VoIP Services
Get Connected
Use Pure VoIP Dialing with Your TSP
Wire Your House Phones for VoIP
Use a Softphone with a VoIP TSP
Prioritize Packets to Improve Quality
Got 911?
Update Your VoIP ATA Firmware
Desktop Telephony
Access Next-Gen Voice Features
Track Vonage Account Info on Your Desktop
Pick a Desktop VoIP Client
Sound Like Darth Vader While You VoIP
Grow Your Social Network with Gizmo
Record VoIP Calls on Your Windows PC
Handle Calls with Windows Software
Let Your Mac Answer and Log Your Calls
Run Phlink Even When Logged Off
Greet Callers Differently Each Day
Use Caller IDs in AppleScripts
Control iTunes from Phlink
VoIP While Fragging
Google for Telephony Info
Telephonize a Sound File
Record an Audio Chat on Your Mac
Create Telephony Sounds with SoX
Mix the Perfect Announcement
Sound Like a Pro Announcer
Record a Videoconference
Skype and Skyping
Get Skype and Make Some New Friends
Skype Your Outlook Contacts
Skype People from the OS X Address Book
Enable Site Visitors to Skype You
Speak Jyve
Teach Your Browser to Speak Jyve
Carry Skype in Your Pocket
Degunk International SkypeOut Calls
From Podcasting to Skypecasting
Answer Your Skype Calls, Even When You're Not Around
Use Custom Rings and Sounds with Skype
Emote by Sight and Sound with Skype
Skype with Your Home Phone
Asterisk
Turn Your Linux Box into a PBX
Attach a SIP Phone to Asterisk
Connect a Phone Line Using an FXO Gateway
Connect a Legacy Phone Line Using Zaptel
Forward Your Home Calls to Your Cell Phone
Selectively Forward Calls
Report Telephone Activity with Excel
Kindly Introduce Telemarketers to Mr. Privacy
Build a Four-Line Phone Server
Master Music-on-Hold
Record Calls
Get Your Daily Weather Forecast from Your Telephone
Put a Happy Face on Asterisk Using AMP
Run Asterisk Without Root, for Security's Sake
Link Two Asterisk Servers with PSTN
Link Several PBXs over the Internet
Route Calls Using Distinctive Ring
Tune Up Your Asterisk Logs
Telephony Hardware Hacks
Record Calls the Old-Fashioned Way
Make IP-to-IP Phone Calls with a Grandstream BudgeTone
Build a Custom Ringtone for Your Grandstream Phone
Tweak Your Sipura ATA
Build a Bat Phone
Brew Your Own Zaptel Interface Card
Build a Speed-Dial Service on Cisco IP Phones
Power Cisco Phones with Standard Inline Power
Customize Your Cisco IP Phone's Boot Logo
Configure Multiple IP Phones at One Time
Customize Uniden IP Phones from TFTP
Control the Lights Using Your IP Phone
Use a Rotary-Dial Phone with VoIP
Navigate the VoIP Network
Monitor VoIP Devices
Inspect the SIP Message Structure
Audit a Network's QoS Capabilities
Graph Latency and Jitter
Explore NAT Traversal
Shape Network Traffic to Improve Quality of Service
Create a Premium Class of Service
Build a $100 PSTN Gateway in 10 Minutes or Less
Make IP Phone Configuration a Trivial Matter
Peek Inside of SIP Packets
Dig into SDP
Sniff Out Jittery Calls with Ethereal
Log VoIP Traffic
Secretly Record VoIP Calls
Log and Record VoIP Streams
Intercept and Record a VoIP Call
Hard-Core Voice
Build a Killer Telephony Server
Build an H.323 Gatekeeper Using OpenH
Turn Your Linux Box into a Fax Machine
Build an Inbound Fax-to-Email Gateway
Teach Your Asterisk Box to Speak
Build a Mac PBX
Monitor Asterisk from Your Perl Scripts
Build a SoftPBX with No Hard Drive
Build a Standalone Voicemail Server in Less Than a Half-Hour
Automate Your Voicemail Greeting
Connect Asterisk to the Skype Network
Forward Your Home Phone Calls to Skype
Get Started with sipX
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