Voice Over MPLS : Planning and Designing Networks (paperback)

MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching) is a controversial new protocol that vastly simplifies Internet traffic and effectively removes obstacles to Voice Over IP applications. Here is the first book to thoroughly explain and evaluate MPLS specifically for the voice markets. This volume explains a potentially disruptive technology for telephony, it shows providers how to protect their revenues during deployment and details key engineering problems such as classes of service, traffic.

Preface About the Author Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Motivations, Developments, and Opportunities in Voice over Packet (VoP) Technologies Chapter 2: Technologies for Packet-Based Voice Applications Chapter 3: Quality of Service (QoS) Chapter 4: Features of MPLS Chapter 5: Motivations, Drivers, Approaches, and Advantages of VoMPLS Chapter 6: MPLS Forum VoMPLS Bearer Transport Implementation Agreement Chapter 7: Signaling Issues for Voice over MPLS Chapter 8: Public Network Issues for VoMPLS and Applications Beyond Transport