Voice over IP Crash Course, Chapter 4: Validating the existing network

Voice over IP Crash Course, Chapter 4: Validating the existing network


Voice Over IP Crash Course
Chapter 4: Validating the Existing Network

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4 of Voice Over IP Crash Course by Steven Shepard presents best practices for validating your existing network before implementing VoIP. Most enterprises have a significant investment in their communications infrastructure and do not want to lose the value of that investment. The evolution to a converged Internet Protocol (IP) architecture does not necessarily mean that the existing installed base must be completely replaced.

In this chapter, you will learn how to carefully craft a migration strategy, perform asset and capability inventories, decide what capabilities are required that your current network can not deliver and uncover tangible and intangible costs that can be mined out as a result of implementation. This chapter also covers the pre-assessment phase, the physical network, the logical network, network utilization, usage practices and policies.

Reproduced from the book Voice Over IP Crash Course, ISBN 0072262419, copyright 2005, by permission of McGraw-Hill Professional, Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Written permission from McGraw-Hill is required for all other uses. Click here for a detailed description and to learn how to purchase this title.

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This was first published in November 2005

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