Telephones have truly become an integral part of our daily lives, serving as our communication lifeline to the world. However, there have been very few advances in the basic technology of phone service - until now. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers consumers a cost-effective alternative to traditional phone service. "Cut the Cord! The Consumer's Guide to VoIP" gives you the knowledge you need to decide if VoIP is right for you. It offers tips for selecting a VoIP service and advice for setting up your new service. It is packed with checklists, Web site resources, tips, and notes, and even provides examples of services that you can try before committing to VoIP.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A great guide for the voip newbie:
This was a curiosity read and I found it to be a very good guide for understand the basics of voip. Overall the book is not highly technical. If you are looking to get to the guts of voip, this is the wrong book. If you are somebody considering voip and don't know anything about it, this is the book for you. There is a little repetition on some topics as Ledford explains the different approaches. However, the information in this book is very good. You get discussions, a sit survey list and... more info
good guide:
If you have been contemplating VoIP but are fuzzy on the details, Ledford offers some insight. She walks you through a good general guide of what VoIP is, from a user's perspective, not an engineer's. You can see that VoIP offers a far richer feature set than Plain Old Telephone Service. Though the exact features in a given VoIP varies with its provider. At least for US readers, the book summarises who the main providers are and typically what each offers, and for how much. Also, the book surveys VoIP... more info
Good Introduction to What's Coming:
The basic technology of the conventional telephone system has been around since the very beginning. You make a call and you get a dedicated communications channel to the instrument at the other end. And in the beginning that was indeed a physical wire. This wiring circuit was physically switched to your phone and stayed there until you hung up. Later Bell Labs was set up to discover how to get more signals through a wire than just one message at a time. Everyone knew that you could get more signal through a... more info
