Summary

This chapter explored the fundamental concepts surrounding traditional telephony services, including privately owned and publicly owned telephone switches, call signaling, and multiplexing techniques. Also, the chapter identified foundational IP telephony concepts (for example, centralized and distributed call processing models) and components (for example, analog and digital interfaces).

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