IP telephony began humbly as a novelty application that allowed online users to converse over the Internet. Today, it has finally matured enough in both feature sets and network availability that it ...

The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. However, the term ...

Cisco's IP telephony offering has become so complex in such a short period of time that to learn about it now involves a two-part, eight-day training course. Delegates can either attend the two parts ...

IP telephony is a next-generation technology that is changing the way companies communicate, and is reshaping the business landscape. Through the unification of voice and data networks, IP telephony ...

VoIP has definitely come a long way from its roots in the late 1990s to its role today as a business-critical component within the unified communications (UC) market. Some technology pundits have ...

Last week, we highlighted an Avaya announcement about the company’s new IP Telephony system called Avaya Distributed Office, designed to meet the challenges of smaller offices that are part of a ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Vertical Communications announced the release of MBX IP, a ...

In an effort to cut costs, my company has decided to migrate from private branch exchanges to IP telephony. By routing calls over our existing IP network and using voice-over-IP links, we can ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

Many small companies that lack technology skills may be blithely unaware that a revolution is underway in the world of business telephone systems. Why should you care particularly? Because new IP PBXs ...