old-www/HOWTO/VoIP-HOWTO.html

125 lines
4.6 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9">
<TITLE>VoIP Howto</TITLE>
<LINK HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html" REL=next>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A>
Previous
Contents
<HR>
<H1>VoIP Howto</H1>
<H2>Roberto Arcomano berto@fatamorgana.com</H2>v1.7, August 7, 2002
<P><HR>
<EM>Voice Over IP is a new communication means that let you telephone
with Internet at almost null cost. How this is possible, what systems
are used, what is the standard, all that is covered by this Howto.
Web site
<A HREF="http://www.fatamorgana.com/bertolinux">http://www.fatamorgana.com/bertolinux</A> contains latest version of this document.</EM>
<HR>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc1">1.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html">Introduction</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1">1.1 Introduction</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.2">1.2 Copyright</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.3">1.3 Translations</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4">1.4 Credits</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc2">2.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-2.html">Background</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1">2.1 The past</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.2">2.2 Yesterday</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3">2.3 Today</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4">2.4 The future</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-3.html">Overview</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">3.1 What is VoIP?</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2">3.2 How does it work? </A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3">3.3 What is the advantages using VoIP rather PSTN?</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4">3.4 Then, why everybody doesn't use it yet?</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc4">4.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html">Technical info about VoIP</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1">4.1 Overview on a VoIP connection</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2">4.2 Analog to Digital Conversion</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3">4.3 Compression Algorithms</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4">4.4 RTP Real Time Transport Protocol</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5">4.5 RSVP</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6">4.6 Quality of Service (QoS)</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.7">4.7 H323 Signaling Protocol</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc5">5.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html">Requirement</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1">5.1 Hardware requirement</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2">5.2 Hardware accelerating cards </A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3">5.3 Hardware gateway cards</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4">5.4 Software requirement</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5">5.5 Gateway software</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.6">5.6 Gatekeeper software</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.7">5.7 Other software</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc6">6.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-6.html">Cards setup</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1">6.1 Quicknet PhoneJack</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2">6.2 Quicknet LineJack</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3">6.3 VoiceTronix products</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc7">7.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html">Setup</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1">7.1 Simple communication: IP to IP</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.2">7.2 Using names</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3">7.3 Internet calling using a WINS server</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4">7.4 ILS server</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5">7.5 A big problem: the masquering.</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.6">7.6 Open Source applications</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.7">7.7 Setting up a gatekeeper</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.8">7.8 Setting up a gateway</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.9">7.9 Compatibility Matrix</A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc8">8.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-8.html">Communications using PSTN line</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.1">8.1 Overview</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.2">8.2 Scenario</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.3">8.3 What can be changed in this configuration? </A>
</UL>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc9">9.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-9.html">Bandwidth consideration</A></H2>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc10">10.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-10.html">Glossary</A></H2>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="toc11">11.</A> <A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-11.html">Useful links</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.1">11.1 Open software link</A>
<LI><A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.2">11.2 Commercial link</A>
</UL>
<HR>
<A HREF="VoIP-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A>
Previous
Contents
</BODY>
</HTML>