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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Avaya submitted two configurations: A no-frills, out-of-the-box Avaya IP telephony deployment with no extra-priced security options; and a maximum-security alternative featuring the same VoIP gear but ...

Virtually all currently marketed IP telephony systems share a common design platform of server-based call control and distributed media gateways, but there still remain noticeable differences that ...

Phone configuration: Siemens embraces phone-side configuration of IP-telephony parameters. For example, setting the jitter-buffer size, a key parameter affecting VoIP voice quality, can be modified ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

To hear vendors talk about it, you’d think IP telephony in the enterprise was a tsunami about to break across corporate America. Indeed, traditional private branch exchange (PBX) vendors, initially ...