While IP PBX vendors duke it out for market share in the converged LAN/WAN arena, a recent analyst report warns not to count out a certain software vendor from Redmond. A report from IDC identifies ...

In our last VoIP installment, we looked at the main reasons why SIP has become a widely adopted protocol, but we left details of the protocol’s inner workings fairly vague. This article will drill ...

Even many IT professionals haven't heard of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), so it's almost certain your users haven't. However, unless you're using an entirely proprietary Voice-over-IP (VoIP) ...

Voice over IP has reached the point where it’s good enough to be taken seriously in the enterprise. The poor voice quality and dropped calls are things of the past, and the current technology delivers ...

Broadcasting over IP is rapidly becoming the paradigm by which broadcasters are planning future broadcast network infrastructures. Within the diverse range of broadcast IP devices coming onto the ...

For all the technology behind Voice over IP (VoIP), you'd expect that it would work on every network, but this unfortunately isn't the case. Network Address Translation (NAT) is a common practice used ...

Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice ...

I've had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...