Fax, Modem, and Text for IP Telephony

How This Book Is Organized

This book is logically laid out with critical, fundamental concepts defined at the beginning in Chapters 1 to 6. Later chapters build upon these concepts to assist you with network design, configuration, and troubleshooting. Once the initial fundamental chapters are covered in the first two sections, the remaining chapters do not have to be read in any particular order even though the listed chapter sequence is what we believe to be the most beneficial for learning the subject matter.

The chapters in this book are divided into the following sections and cover the following topics:

• Part I Laying the Groundwork

  Provides the fundamentals of how faxes, modems, and text telephony devices work.

  • Chapter 1, “How Modems Work”—Discusses ...