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Foundation learning for CCVP voice over IP

Kevin Wallace, CCIE® No. 7945

Cisco Voice over IP, Second Edition, is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP) voice over IP (VoIP) foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge you need to implement and support data and voice integration solutions at the network-access level. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of basic IP telephony operation and router configuration, support, troubleshooting, and integration with an existing public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Cisco Voice over IP lays the foundation for gaining hands-on skills and a significant understanding of packet telephony. Coverage includes analog and digital voice connections, voice interface configuration, voice dial peer configuration, VoIP fundamentals, VoIP signaling and call control protocols, and voice quality improvement and maintenance. Chapter review questions, practice items, real-world examples, and hands-on lab exercises all help reinforce learning. Whether you are preparing for CCVP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of VoIP, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

Cisco Voice over IP is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems® that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press®. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

Kevin Wallace, CCIE® No. 7945, CCVP, CCNP®, CCDP®, is a full-time instructor for Thomson NETg. With 17 years of Cisco internetworking experience, Kevin has been a network design specialist for The Walt Disney World Resort and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University.

• Understand traditional telephony network concepts and operation as well as the building blocks of packet telephony networks

• Examine the interactions of telephony operations at an electrical level

• Evaluate strategies for overcoming specific challenges in a VoIP network, such as the transmission of fax and modem tones

• Attach a Cisco voice-enabled router to existing telephony devices, such as a PBX or an analog phone

• Add call-routing intelligence to a Cisco voice-enabled router through the use of dial peers

• Address potential challenges and design considerations associated with sending voice across an IP-based network

• Understand the theory and configuration of the call control protocols including H.323, SIP, and MGCP

• Mitigate voice quality issues with various Cisco quality of service (QoS) mechanisms

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

Category: IP Communications

Covers: VoIP

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 20 Ratings

Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (3rd Edition) - 2009-10-12
Reviewer Rating:
I received the book and CD before the promised ship date and in great shape too. thanks!!!

Very rough ride to get the CVOICE... - 2009-08-05
Reviewer Rating:
This book is organized an a fashion that makes retention difficult. The concepts gone over in this book seem to go way too fast. The authors give several new technology acronyms / abbreviations without definition and expect you to remember where they used them until they give the definition that may be revealed to you sometime later on in the chapter.

You will definitely need some other source to study from before testing on this comprehensive exam, unless you already know the majority of what this book should teach you.

Don't waste your time - 2009-08-03
Reviewer Rating:
No good for a self study, find another book.
The book has no structure, and is inconsistant in its delivery of the info.
Config walk throughs are confusing at best, sometimes requiring knowledge on features not yet covered.
I'm sure some of the info is outright wrong, almost like it was never proof read or fact checked.

1:Technical descriptions are hard to follow and inconsistant.
2:Config walkthroughs are hard to follow and inconsistant.
3:Features are covered at random with no real structure.
4:Some facts are just wrong.
5:Dialplan recomendations are scary.
6:Sample questions are very easy compared to what is on the actual exam.
7:There is NO BOSON TEST SIM with this book.

I've self studied both CCNA and QoS succesfully with the other CisCo Press Books.
This one is a real let down.

A pick for advanced colleges offering study in this area - 2008-10-13
Reviewer Rating:
Kevin Wallace, CCIE's AUTHORIZED SELF-STUDY GUIDE TO CISCO VOICE OVER IP (CVOICE), 3RD EDITION offers a college-level student's guide for the CVOICE exam 642-436, and is a pick for advanced colleges offering study in this area. Software programmers and students receive a manual covering all the elements of VoIP calls, dial plans, and implementation of gateways and Cisco systems. Both are highly recommended specialty acquisitions.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Great Study guide AND reference book - 2008-08-05
Reviewer Rating:
Well I originally bought this book to help study for the CVOICE exam. I certainly used it for that and then some. It covered all of the exam topics pretty well and for me was an easy read. I passed the exam easily. What I didnt realize was that I would use it even more after the fact for a reference. Definitely worth the money for this book.

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