Cisco Press eBooks

As a final exam preparation tool, the CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets provides a concise review of all objectives on the new CCIE Voice written exam (350-030). This digital Short Cut provides you with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format.

With this document as your guide, you will review topics on Cisco CallManager and Unity; QoS; telephony protocols; IOS IP telephony; IP IVR; IPCC; voice security, operations, and management; and infrastructure and application protocols. These fact-filled Quick Reference Sheets allow you to get all-important information at a glance, helping you focus your study on areas of weakness and to enhance memory retention of essential exam concepts.

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Integrating Voice and Data Networks

Practical solutions for the world of packetized voice over data networks

* Features in-depth solutions for the design and implementation of integrated voice and data networks
* Detailed configurations show network engineers how to implement packetized voice immediately
* Chapters on voice theory and data theory ensure mastery of fundamental knowledge
* Learn how to lower costs, streamline your organization, prepare for new multimedia applications, and gain a competitive advantage by integrating your voice and data networks

The integration of voice and data networks is creating a fundamental change in the telecommunications and data industries. This change means better phone service, lower prices, new features, less maintenance, and more choices, leading to a complete convergence of the data networking and telecommunications industries into a single community. With all this growth and change, network engineers and managers need specific information on how to integrate and configure packetized voice networks. Integrating Voice and Data Networks is the one reference manual you need to learn how to integrate traditional voice technology into existing Cisco data networks.

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Developing Cisco IP Phone Services: A Cisco AVVID Solution

Create applications that deliver interactive content to Cisco IP Phones

* Learn information and techniques vital to building and integrating third-party services for Cisco IP Phones
* Understand the development process using XML and HTTP client and server applications to successfully build a service
* Discover advanced services information about objects, advanced runtime generation, and other XML development tools
* Utilize the provided CallManager Simulator to support an IP phone for development purposesGet the most out of your IP phone systems with strategies and solutions direct from the Cisco team

Services on Cisco IP Phones help you enhance productivity, gain the competitive advantage, and even help generate revenue. Services are simply applications that run on the phone rather than on a PC or a web browser. By developing services tailored to your particular needs, you can achieve unlimited goals.

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Cisco DQOS Exam Certification Guide

The official self-study test preparation guide for the Cisco DQOS 9E0-601 and QOS 642-641 exams

This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the DQOS exam, including:

* QoS concepts, tools, and architectures
* Classification and marking concepts and tools
* Queuing in Cisco routers and configuration of queuing tools
* Traffic policing and shaping in Cisco routers
* Configuration of congestion avoidance tools
* Configuration of link-efficiency tools
* Call admission control (CAC) tools for voice and video connections
* Cisco QoS management tools
* QoS design processes
* QoS on LAN switches

The Cisco IP Telephony Support, Design, and Operations Specialist focused certifications validate proficiency in designing, installing, and supporting a multiservice network solution. A solid understanding of quality-of-service (QoS) features and implementation is essential for all of the Cisco IP Telephony focused certifications and is also a core component of the CCIP(tm) certification.

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IP Telephony Unveiled

Understand how IP telephony can change your business

This book explains four key points to help you successfully implement your IP telephony strategy:

* IP telephony works today. This is not new, unproven technology. Thousands of customers have implemented IP telephony successfully. So can you.
* Expect to save money. IP telephony may well cost your organization money-initially. But the business impact and post-installation process improvements give you a significant and rapid return on your investment.
* It’s more than voice over IP. You’ll understand the difference between voice over IP (VoIP) and IP telephony and what that means for your business. This is critical. They are not the same. It’s more than a dial tone. There are potential business-impacting applications within your own organization. IP Telephony Unveiled helps you recognize these applications.

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Taking Charge of Your VoIP Project

Strategies and solutions for successful VoIP deployments

Justify your network investment

* The step-by-step approach to VoIP deployment and management enables you to plan early and properly for successful VoIP integration with your existing systems, networks, and applications.
* The detailed introduction offers a common grounding for members of both the telephony and data networking communities.
* IT managers and project leaders are armed with details on building a business case for VoIP, including details of return-on-investment (ROI) analysis and justification.
* A VoIP deployment is presented as a major IT project, enabling you to understand the steps involved and the required resources.
* The comprehensive look at quality of service and tuning describes when and where to use them in a VoIP deployment. These are often the most complex topics in VoIP; you’ll get smart recommendations on which techniques to use in various circumstances.
* You learn how to plan for VoIP security, including prevention, detection, and reaction.

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Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services

A complete, practical guide to the world’s most popular signaling system, including SIGTRAN, GSM-MAP, and Intelligent Networks.

* Provides in-depth coverage of the SS7 protocols, including implementation details
* Covers SS7 over IP (SIGTRAN) using real-world examples
* Covers SS7/C7 from both a North American and European perspective, providing a broad international understanding of the technology and associated standards
* Explains mobile wireless concepts and signaling, including mobile application part (MAP)
* Provides a thorough explanation of the Intelligent Network (IN) and associated protocols (INAP/AIN)

Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) is a signaling network and protocol that is used globally to bring telecommunications networks, both fixed-line and cellular, to life. SS7 has numerous applications and is at the very heart of telecommunications. Setting up phone calls, providing cellular roaming and messaging, and supplying converged voice and data services are only a few of the ways that SS7 is used in the communications network. SS7 also provides the point of interconnection between converging voice and data networks. This transition, which affects everyone who works with the data network, has bolstered the need for practical and applied information on SS7. In short, anyone who is interested in telecommunications should have a solid understanding of SS7.

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