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. As Internet ...

You probably already know VoIP stands for voice over Internet protocol. But what is “Internet protocol”? The term represents a large technology made up of many standards, rules and methods to send ...

The successful deployment of VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) over future 4G networks will determine the technology's sustainability, according to a Maravedis report. The research firm said in its ...

KPMG has released a new whitepaper warning businesses to consider the risks involved in implementing Voice over IP (VoIP). The new whitepaper entitled "Voice over IP - decipher and decide" warns that ...

Researchers have devised a new scheme for hiding secret data within VoIP packets, making it possible to carry on legitimate voice conversations while stolen data piggybacks on the call undetected, ...

Voice over Internet Protocol pioneers Skype, Vonage and other voice-communications purveyors have been quietly generating huge user bases online. Market analysts are reporting that VoIP services stand ...

If you’re a smart businessperson (and if you read Small Business Computing, you undoubtedly are), you’re always looking for new ways to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. One of the ways you may ...

Not only did the skyline of New York City change on September 11th, but the landscape of our sense of security changed as well. The question of how best to protect our infrastructure is a hot topic of ...

VPNs could be a way around some problems that arise with VoIP. During a session at last week’s Spring 2006 VON conference, one speaker advocated using VPNs to encrypt VoIP packets as they pass from ...

A straightforward approach to troubleshooting VoIP that can be applied to video as well. VoIP is particularly sensitive to packet loss, and determining the cause of the packet loss can be difficult.

Happiness is expectations minus reality. So, what should one expect when testing VoIP on a software-define WAN solution? The expectation in the branch is to get even better performance and security ...