In addition to an overview of the Multimedia Telephony service, the book focuses on the modern media processing methods, which allows the quality of the packet switched voice and video telephony not only to match but also possibly exceed the quality of circuit switched telephony. Such key components as adaptive jitter buffering and adaptation of conversational media are explained in detail.
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The possibilities for the current and future standards covered in this book make it an indispensable resource for engineers, designers and researchers in VoIP, telecommunication companies and universities teaching and conducting research in telecommunications. It will also be of interest to managers needing an in-depth knowledge of the engineering and key issues of this complex technology, and students aspiring to develop a career in this area.
Tomas Frankkila works as a Research Scientist at Ericsson in Sweden, and has published papers on wireless communications.
Janne Peisa (PhD) is a Section Manager at Ericsson in Finland, and has published many conference papers in the field of WCDMA and 3G.
Per Synnergren (PhD) works as a Senior Specialist for Ericsson in Sweden. He is active in the area of R&D and standardization for IP based services and media transported over a wireless link (focusing on IMS based services and 3GPP wireless access networks).