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 ...

WASHINGTON — The unsettled Internet Protocol (IP) telephony industry gathered this week at the VoiceCon conference to assess its progress after a disastrous year for telecommunications companies. The ...

Businesses are failing to secure their IP telephony networks because of a lack of knowledge, according to one veteran VoIP engineer. Eric Vyncke, author of LAN switch security: What hackers know about ...

You’ve studied the promising return on investment for IP telephony and researched vendor solutions that appear to fit your company’s needs. If you’ve done your homework, you also know that merging ...

UK wireless networking company LocustWorld has added support for an open-source PBX application to its meshboxes which are used to build mesh networks. The software, called Asterisk, provides all the ...

Hosted service lets enterprise users save on operational and capital expenditures, and reap the benefits of next-generation voice-over-IP services. Some companies that want to implement IP telephony ...

You are likely to encounter three main types of digital telephone systems in the world of business today. A fixed digital telephone system is connected to the main telephone network via cables.

As we continue to hear for plans by the service providers to discontinue POTS (plain old telephone service), the question of whether the traditional telephone will soon become obsolete is looming on ...

Pace Micro Technology has developed a set-top box, the IP500, that uses MPEG4 variants to deliver broadcast quality video over a conventional telephony network at 2Mbit/s. The bit rate can be reduced ...

'Next Telecom are primed to benefit from Amcom's range of hosted IP telephony solutions layered over Amcom's national MPLS network. Access to Amcom's Unified Communications solutions will enable Next ...