The scenario would always play out the same way. With your normal analog desk phone, you would place a call to speak to someone in another organisation, normally one in the financial sector with more ...

The tangles grow exponentially when connecting up live audio in massive venues such as concert halls and stadiums, where hundreds of so-called XLR or cannon connectors connect the microphones, mixers, ...

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It’s a technology that lets you make phone calls using your internet connection instead of a traditional landline. VoIP systems are a great solution for ...

Regular readers of this column will be familiar with my view that when it comes to IP telephony implementations, the devil’s in the details. It’s time to take a look at some of the critical ...

Is IP Telephony saving your company cents per hour on Telecom but costing you dollars per hour in lost productivity? Telepresence shook up the video conferencing market by offering very high quality ...

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. Internet ...

Last week we confessed to a VoIP product backlog and we began to reduce the queue by looking at a software-only, Session Inititation Protocol-based VoIP PBXs and adapters that allow you to use analog ...

Security should be the first consideration for any IT department about to implement voice over IP on a local-area network, an executive with an equipment manufacturer says. “When you’re talking to ...

In our last installment, we were talking about devices that can capture voice traffic and immediately packetize it for transmission on a LAN or across the Internet. We noted three types: A handset, ...

One of the first open source VoIP projects — and one of the earliest VoIP PBXes, period — is Digium-sponsored Asterisk. A highly mature platform licensed under the GPL, Asterisk supports almost ...

Juniper will use technology from Kagoor Networks to make it easier for carriers to deploy IP telephony throughout their networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...