Even customers with an early IP telephony system platform will find most new system design and architecture choices foreign to their knowledge base. Voice calls may be on the decline for casual ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an effort to cut costs, my company has decided to migrate from private branch exchanges to IP telephony. By routing calls over our existing IP network and using voice-over-IP links, we can ...

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 ...

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 ...

IP telephony has long been the bridesmaid of the communications industry. A maturing technology that sends voice traffic over existing data networks, including wide-area networks such as the Internet, ...

Can the Army transition to an IP-based voice architecture? Lessons learned when Fort Leonard Wood went to an all-IP phone system will help. In a complex world, sometimes old questions require new ...

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 ...

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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 ...