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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Watching Owen Jones trying to ponder matters economic rather brings to mind Dr. Johnson's comment about watching a woman preacher. It's not that the thing is being done so well it's that it's being ...