When you compare the IP phones to the legacy analog or digital phones you see an even greater cost difference. The TCO for VoIP should include the electrical power bill. The cost to power the IP ...

It's been the big trend in enterprise telecoms for the past five years - run your data and voice traffic on the same IP network. Yet many of the companies that have adopted voice-over-IP have decided ...

IP telephony is a next-generation technology that is changing the way companies communicate, and is reshaping the business landscape. Through the unification of voice and data networks, IP telephony ...

Avaya Inc. this week announced inline power capabilities for its Cajun stackable switch, allowing it to power IP phones through their network cables. The new technology, based on the 802.3af standard ...

One candidate worth considering is the latest version of ShoreTel's IP-PBX platform. CRN Test Center engineers deployed ShoreTel 7 on a new ShoreGear-90 switch with the vendor's IP phones. ShoreTel 7 ...

“Many companies are replacing old phones with fancy, screen-based IP phones and IP/PBXs with related hardware, however most users continue to use the new phones like their old phones, only with a few ...

Dell’Oro Group last week forecast a healthy rise in IP phone shipments, plus a surprise turnaround for a LAN switch architecture that had fallen out of favor. The research firm predicted that revenue ...