Chapter 6. Managing VoIP Networks

To ensure voice quality and to optimize media delivery over the IP, it is crucial to properly plan, design, implement, and manage the underlying network. This chapter discusses the best practices for planning media deployment over IP networks. It starts with how to assess the readiness of the network, traffic engineering, high availability, and managing the IP network and its integrated components that process voice and other media transmissions. These concepts are essential because managing poorly planned and designed networks is a vain effort. Managing a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network starts from a discovery process that maps out the entire network by identifying all the network elements, their ...

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