to be more competitive and profitable is IP telephony. “IP telephony is an up and coming technology that is going to be the standard in a few years,” says Mike Bond, CCIE, senior network VoIP engineer ...

The scenario would always play out the same way. With your normal analog desk phone, you would place a call to speak to someone in another organisation, normally one in the financial sector with more ...

The codes and commands used to establish and terminate a phone call over an IP network. The protocol supports such features as conference calling, call waiting and call transfer. The primary IP ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 1, “What Is IP Telephony Security and Why Do You Need It?” and is intended to provide you with an introduction to the world of IP telephony security. IP telephony is a ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt that Microsoft could enter the IP telephony market. But why would the software giant want to enter an area so foreign to its core business? Well, the answer is IP telephony is moving ...

For years, the promise of integrating voice with data on the same network has been making the rounds in the IT space. The significantly lower cost of operating an IP network compared to alternative ...

Avaya in September debuted a new version of IP Office, its primary unified communications offering for small and midsize businesses. The update, IP Office Release 5, is software that can be customized ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...

In our case, we have a Cisco IP Telephony environment that works very well, but was not being proactively monitored. Thus, to ensure proper operations monitoring and to provide needed information for ...

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 — Although the Internet Protocol (IP) has the potential to provide reliable voice service, few equipment makers appear certain about when it will be ready for widespread deployment. The ...