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1. Articles

1.1 General articles

Computer Telephony for the Enterprise Delayed Voice-over-IP

Internet Technical Resources: Internet Telephony Internet Telephony Technology Tutorials

IP telephony Introduction to Internet Telephony

IP telephony ITU

IP xStream: Explore the Internet Telephony Market, Audio Ken's CTI, IVR and Call Center Page

Packetized voice Real-time IP

CMPnet Spotlight: Internet Telephony Other Teleconferencing Resources (at the bottom of the page)

Office of Telecommunications. US Department of Commerce: TelecomClick

TechSearch - Archive Search for voice over IP The Dawn of the Stupid Network

Voice Over IP (VOIP) VoIP Version 2 Arrives

Voice Over IP -- Voice Over IP Networks Voice-over-IP

Voice over IP comparison Voice Over IP

Voice Over IP

1.2 Vendor Specific Articles

Cisco: News and Press Releases, Unified Communication (voice, fax, data integration)
Nortel Networks: VIP Overview, MICOM Voice Over IP Overview - Interlink Communication Systems, MICOM Frequently Asked Questions , V/IP Product Introduction, Voice Over IP Distribution Message
Motorola: Voice Over IP, Voice Over IP Press Releases
Others: Telogy Networks - a variety of resources, but a site with frames that do not allow us to link to specific pages. Voice and Fax Over Internet - tutorial on VoIP.; Motorola VoIP VIPR - Interlink Communication Systems

2. Books

D. Minoli and E. Minoli, Delivering Voice over IP Networks, John Wiley, 1998, 304 pp.

D. Minoli and E. Minoli, Delivering Voice over Frame Relay and ATM, John Wiley, 1998, 460 pp.

G. Held, Voice Over Data Networks; Covering IP and Frame Relay, McGraw-Hill, 1998, 300 pp.

J. Pulver, The Internet Telephone Toolkit, John Wiley, 1998, 201 pp.

C. Kirk, The Internet Phone Connection, Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1998, 276 pp.

Walther J. Goralski and Matthew C. Kolon, IP Telephony, Mc Graw Hill 2000

Marcus Gonçalves, Voice over IP Networks, Mc Graw Hill, 1999.

ITU, Trends in telecommunication reform. Convergence and regulation. International Telecommunication Union, 1999.

Muller J. Nathan, IP Convergence: the next revolution in telecommunications, Artech House 2000.

3. News

IP Telephony News - By Pulver.Com; The Pulver Report; 3Com | VOIP Lead Story; PC Magazine Online - Trends: Hear This: Voice over IP Is Here (January 27, 1998); Voice-over-IP to skyrocket
TechWeb Internet: The Net Goes On Call; Samsung Web Video Phones Splash Into Summer Rollout; Deutsche Telekom Looks To Net For "Economy-Class" Telephony; Q&A With Brian Cute; Net Phone Backers Fight New Fees; Retail Internet-Phone Plans Are Put On Hold; Investors Are Ready To Talk Internet Telephony; Vendors Unite Behind Voice-Over-IP; Customers Are Still Wary; FCC Says Net Phone Fees Possible; Net Telephony Forces Deutsche Telekom Overseas; Japan's NTT Joins Internet Telephony Campaign

4. Organizations

International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (ITMC): Public FTP Site and Conferencing Over IP Activity - a working group which combines Voice over IP (VOIP) and IP conferencing (formerly H.323)
Others: Voice On The Net (VON) Coalition; MIT Internet Telephony Consortium and Frequently Asked Questions about the MIT ITC,; Internet Telephony Consortium; Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (ECTF); Internet Fax Routing Forum
Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) Work Group of EMA,; International Telecommunication Union

4.1 IETF
VOIP Related IETF Working Groups

Multimedia Working Groups

IP Telephony (iptel)

Internet Fax (fax)

PSTN and Internet Interworking (pint)

Audio/Video Transport (avt)

Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (mmusic)

Multicasting Working Groups

MBONE Deployment (mboned)

Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (idmr)

Multicast Extensions to OSPF (mospf)

Large Scale Multicast Applications (lsma)

Protocol Independent Multicast (pim)

Multicast Address Allocation (malloc)

Quality of Service Working Groups

Differenticated Services (diffserv)

Integrated Services (intserv)

Integrated Services over Specific Layers (issl)\

Resource Reservation (rsvp)

RSVP Admission Policy (rap)

IP Next Generation (ipngwg)

Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls)

QoS Routing (qosr)

5. Standards

DataBeam, including A Primer on the H.323 Series Standard

ITU-T H.320 ISDN Videoconferencing Standards

H.323 ITU Video (Audiovisual) communication on Local Area Networks Standards Standards

H.324 ITU Standards for High Quality Video and Audio Compression over POTS modem connections.

VPIM Technical Specification

Simple Computer Telephony Protocol Home Page

5.1 Internet RFCS:

RFC 1889, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications

RFC 1890, RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control

RFC 2029, RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding

RFC 2032, RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams

RFC 2035, RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video

RFC 2190, RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams

RFC 2198, RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data,

RFC 2250, RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video

RFC 2343, RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG

RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

RFC 2205, Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification

RFC 2206, RSVP Management Information Base using SMIv2

RFC 2207, RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows

RFC 2208, Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment,

RFC 2209, Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Message Processing Rules

RFC 2210, The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services

RFC 1819, Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol Specification - Version ST2+

RFC 1946, Native ATM Support for ST2+

RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol

RFC 0741, Specifications for the Network Voice Protocol (NVP),

RFC 0978, Voice File Interchange Protocol (VFIP),

RFC 1911, Voice Profile for Internet Mail,

RFC 2159, A MIME Body Part for FAX

RFC 2301, File Format for Internet Fax

RFC 2304, Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail,

RFC 0511, Enterprise phone service to NIC from ARPANET sites

RFC 1789, INETPhone: Telephone Services and Servers on Internet

5.2 Internet Drafts

Draft documents are preliminary versions of proposals that change frequently and may even be removed as they change status. As such, we will not list them. You can see a current listing at IETF FTP site. Documents are in ASCII text format, unless otherwise stated. You can also go to the Internet-Draft page.

6. Studies

Presentation of CITEL at a July 2000 seminar of the Colombian Association of Engineers, ACIEM (in Spanish).

Many Flavors, Robert Harbison, IP Telephony, There Are No One-Stop Shops – Network, Managers Must Take The Time To Sort Out IP Telephony's, InternetWeek, September 06, 1999, Issue: 779

Robert Harbison, Packet Nets Find Their Voice, Internet Week September 06, 1999, Issue: 779

Chuck Moozakis, Billing App Generates Usage Reports, InternetWeek June 07, 1999, Issue: 768

Sean M. Dalton, A Harvard Business School Field Study in Information Technology, How the Emerging Internet Telephone Service Providers (ITSPs) Are Revolutionizing the Telecommunications Industry, May 26-29, 1998

Ryopa Ono, Kumiko Aoki, Convergence and new regulatory frameworks. A comparative study of regulatory approaches to Internet telephony, Telecommunication Policy, 1998.

Leonard J. Kennedy & Christopher D. Libertelli, Open Systems: The effects of Regulatory Policy, Telecommunications Reports Journal. 1998, 21-35.

Dan Minoli, Voice over IP and the Internet, Datapro 2000.

Katja Ruud, An Introduction to Internet telephony (or Voice over IP), Datapro 2000.

Erik R. Olbeter & Cavan Yang. Calling from the Net: Market and Regulatory considerations, Telecommunications Reports Journal 1999.

Robert Bonometti, Stephen Pociask, Patrick White, Eric Firdman, Stathis Mavrotheris, The Economics of Multimedia Data Networking: Is a New Paradigm Needed?, MIT 1997

Lee W. McKnight Brett Leida, Internet Telephony and Open Communications Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 3-5, 1997

[SH97] Short, Kristin Ilene, Towards Integrated Intranet Services: Modeling the Costs of Corporate IP Telephony, MIT, S.M. Thesis, September 1997.

Kenneth Neil Cukier, Peering and Fearing: Backbone ISP Interconnection and Regulation Issues, November 23, 1997.

DSTI/ICCP/TISP(97)3/FINAL, OECD, Directorate For Science, Technology and Industry Committee for Information, Computer And Communications Policy Internet Voice Telephony Developments

Richard A. Cawley, The Impact of Internet on Communications Regulatory Models in Europe, COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES DIRECTORATE GENERAL, November 1997

Lesley Hansen, Evaluating Voice Over IP And ATM Technology In Internets, Micom Communications

Richard A. Cawley, Policies to support the scaling and extensibility of Internet: Principles to guide settlements policy consistent with technical and pricing developments of Internet

Ignacio Mas, Regulatory Impact of Voice over IP.

Roy L. Morris, Voice Over IP Telephony: Sizzle or Steak? A Plain English White Paper on the Pros and Cons of Voice of IP. .

Hank Intven, Mark Zohar and Jay Howard, Internet Telephony – The Regulatory Issues. April 1998.

Mcknight, Lee W., Leida, Brett A.,Internet Telephony: Costs, Pricing, and policy, MIT , 1997.

"A Taxonomy of Internet Telephony Applications" [PDF], D. Clark, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

ITU IP telephony Work shop, June 14-16, 2000.

7. Vendors

Voice over IP Gateway Vendors

3Com Corp.

ACT Networks

Ascend Communications, Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

DataBeam and Developer Tools

E-Fusion Inc.

Franklin Telecommunications Corp.

Hypercom Corp.

Inter-tel Inc.

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Micom Communications Corp.

Motorola Inc.

Netrix Corp.

Netspeak Corp.

RADvision Ltd.

VocalTec Inc.

Computer Telephony for the Enterprise	Delayed Voice-over-IP
Internet Technical Resources: Internet Telephony	Internet Telephony Technology Tutorials
IP telephony	Introduction to Internet Telephony
IP telephony	ITU
IP xStream: Explore the Internet Telephony Market, Audio	Ken's CTI, IVR and Call Center Page
Packetized voice	Real-time IP
CMPnet Spotlight: Internet Telephony	Other Teleconferencing Resources (at the bottom of the page)
Office of Telecommunications. US Department of Commerce:	TelecomClick
TechSearch - Archive Search for voice over IP	The Dawn of the Stupid Network
Voice Over IP (VOIP)	VoIP Version 2 Arrives
Voice Over IP -- Voice Over IP Networks	Voice-over-IP
Voice over IP comparison	Voice Over IP
Voice Over IP