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 ...

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 ...

Over the past few weeks we’ve been discussing fixed-mobile convergence from a number of angles, all primarily focusing on future technologies and ultimate solutions that we might see in ...

Last week, Insight Research released a report on how the future of telecommunications might evolve over the next five years. In the report, the firm concludes that today’s wireless, Internet and ...

Six months after wireline telephone operators and trade groups asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to begin shutting down their aging switched networks, the agency responded ...

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.

Frank Suraci, technical director for the National Communications System’s (NCS’) Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS), tests videoconferencing equipment for priority communications.

Something of a tempest in a teapot has sprung up over Hurricane Sandy’s impact on one New Jersey community. Last week, a New York Times article cited complaints from some residents (one, actually) of ...