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Written by telecommunications experts, Fixed Mobile Convergence explains how to consolidate fixed, mobile, wireless, and wireline networks into a seamless environment enabling a uniform converged communication experience. You will learn how to create FMC-based networks, services, and solutions; support advanced technologies such as Voice over Wi-Fi; and converge them with legacy networks. You’ll also discover how to develop a phased strategy for effective rollout of FMC multi-mode devices and services, with reliable security and quality of service. The book includes details on integrating next-generation technologies such as near field communication, Bluetooth PAN, WiMax, presence, and unified messaging to create a seamless mobility ecosystem.

• Seamlessly converge fixed, mobile, wireless, and wireline networks
• Understand the “Four Cs” of FMC-cost, coverage, capacity, and convenience
• Understand the technology behind FMC components: fixed, mobile, and convergence
• Overcome converged network deployment and proliferation barriers
• Conform to IETF, 3GPP, and other relevant standards for FMC
• Offer uniform access-independent voice, data, instant communications, and unified messaging services across legacy fixed and mobile networks
• Design and launch scalable FMC solutions using IMS, UMA/GAN, femtocells, VoWi-Fi, VCC, and other enablers
• Add LBS, presence, M-to-M, and other advanced services Download Now »

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Cacti is a network monitoring tool that provides graphic solutions to your everyday monitoring issues. It has a wide variety of features and misusing them can mean that you are not monitoring your network as closely as you think. This book takes you through all of the key features of Cacti and shows how to use them for maximum effectiveness.

This book will teach you how to use Cacti effectively to monitor your network through its web interface leaving aside all the heavy chunks of code. You will be introduced to all the features of Cacti in an easy-to-understand format.

This book introduces Cacti and goes through its complete installation and setup. After a quick look, it will teach you to use Cacti’s amazing graph templating and user management features. You will learn to customize graphs and make them better looking and easier to understand. It will teach you to provide the paths to any external script or command using Cacti. Then it will take you through importing and managing new templates and also customizing them. Creating users and assigning permissions to them is the next step in this book. Towards the end, you will learn to take backups and restore the system.

What you will learn from this book?

• Implement SNMP with Cacti using the Net-SNMP application suite
• Retrieve raw data from the system using Net-SNMP
• Create graphs using the RRDtool for easy understanding Download Now »

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Asterisk is the leading Open Source Telephony application and PBX software solution. It represents an effective, easy-to-administer, and accessible platform for running enterprise telephony requirements. The real world, however, offers numerous hurdles when running Asterisk in the commercial environment including call routing, resilience, or integrating Asterisk with other systems. This book will show you some of the ways to overcome these problems.

As the follow-up to Packt’s highly successful 2005 title Building Telephony Systems with Asterisk, this book presents the collected wisdom of Asterisk Professionals in the commercial environment.

Aimed at Administrators and Asterisk Consultants who are comfortable with the basics of Asterisk operation and installation, this book covers numerous hands-on topics such as Call Routing, Network Considerations, Scalability, and Resilience – all the while providing practical solutions and suggestions. It also covers more business-related areas like Billing Solutions and a Winning Sales Technique. Even if your interest or experience with Asterisk is lower level, this book will provide a deeper understanding of how Asterisk operates in the real world.

Asterisk is deployed across countless enterprises globally. Running on Linux, it has constantly demonstrated its resilience, stability, and scalability and is now the advanced communication solution of choice to many organizations and consultants.

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Frustrated with networking books so chock-full of acronyms that your brain goes into sleep mode? Head First Networking’s unique, visually rich format provides a task-based approach to computer networking that makes it easy to get your brain engaged. You’ll learn the concepts by tying them to on-the-job tasks, blending practice and theory in a way that only Head First can.

With this book, you’ll learn skills through a variety of genuine scenarios, from fixing a malfunctioning office network to planning a network for a high-technology haunted house. You’ll learn exactly what you need to know, rather than a laundry list of acronyms and diagrams. This book will help you:

• Master the functionality, protocols, and packets that make up real-world networking
• Learn networking concepts through examples in the field
• Tackle tasks such as planning and diagramming networks, running cables, and configuring network devices such as routers and switches
• Monitor networks for performance and problems, and learn troubleshooting techniques
• Practice what you’ve learned with nearly one hundred exercises, questions, sample problems, and projects Download Now »

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Open source telephony systems are making big waves in the communications industry. Moving your organization from a lab environment to production system can seem like a daunting and inherently risky proposition. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs delivers proven techniques for deploying reliable and robust communications systems.

Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs provides a guiding hand in planning, building and migrating a corporate communications system to the open source sipXecs SIP PBX platform. Following this step-by-step guide makes normally complex tasks, such as migrating your existing communication system to VOIP and deploying phones, easy. Imagine how good you’ll feel when you have a complete, enterprise ready telephony system at work in your business.

Planning a communications system for any size of network can seem an overwhelmingly complicated task. Deploying a robust and reliable communications system may seem even harder. This book will start by helping you understand the nuts and bolts of a Voice over IP Telephony system. The base knowledge gained is then built upon with system design and product selection. Soon you will be able to implement, utilize and maintain a communications system with sipXecs. Many screen-shots and diagrams help to illustrate and make simple what can otherwise be a complex undertaking. It’s easy to build an enterprise ready telephony system when you follow this helpful, straightforward guide. Download Now »

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JUNOS Enterprise Switching is the only detailed technical book on Juniper Networks’ new Ethernet-switching EX product platform. With this book, you’ll learn all about the hardware and ASIC design prowess of the EX platform, as well as the JUNOS Software that powers it. Not only is this extremely practical book a useful, hands-on manual to the EX platform, it also makes an excellent study guide for certification exams in the JNTCP enterprise tracks.

The authors have based JUNOS Enterprise Switching on their own Juniper training practices and programs, as well as the configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting guidelines they created for their bestselling companion book, JUNOS Enterprise Routing. Using a mix of test cases, case studies, use cases, and tangential answers to real-world problems, this book covers:

• Enterprise switching and virtual LANs (VLANs)
• The Spanning tree protocol and why it’s needed
• Inter-VLAN routing, including route tables and preferences
• Routing policy and firewall filters
• Switching security, such as DHCP snooping
• Telephony integration, including VLAN voice Download Now »