What You Can Do and How to Do It.

It used to be so simple, you had a campus, perhaps a university, perhaps industrial. You needed phones and the like, you called the phone company, had a few meetings and everything was done.

No more. Now we have convergence. Every office, nearly every person has specialized communications requirements from standard phone to broadband.

This book is intended for the person newly assigned to setting up the communcations for a campus. It talks about what you can do, what you can offer to your client/customers, and then goes into the technology that you will need to make all of this happen. Every aspect of modern communications is covered from the basic network that you will need to set up to handling long distance communications using VoIP rather than the much more expensive switched circuit technology.

The book covers the technology from both the technical standpoint of what it needs to do and from the standpoint of what hardware is available to make it all come together. Obviously this book is quite oriented to Cisco hardware (it's published by Cisco Press) but much of the same capability will be needed regardless of the manufacturer.

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