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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. An IP telephony (IPT) system can provide small businesses with many tangible benefits. One small-business owner I know said staff ...

Conformance to industry standards such as SIP is greatly helping drive down system costs and enhancing design choice flexibility. In my recent No Jitter article reviewing the VoiceCon Orlando RFP ...

Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a new IP telephony (IPT) initiative that offers standard packages of hardware and software that promise to cut customers’ upfront costs by up to 30%. The IPT 1 ...

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, ...

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 ...

One of the drivers encouraging companies to implement IP telephony throughout the organization is the ability to provide consistent communications features from any location. Treating a network of ...

Siemens AG’s U.S.-based networking subsidiary yesterday announced an upgrade of its IP telephony system that can be scaled up to support as many as 100,000 end users on a single network. Version 2.0 ...

Cisco Systems has moved to greatly simplify the installation of an IP telephony system by an SME, with bundles of new and existing IP telephony and networking products. The are aimed at companies with ...

Cisco starting Monday is set to offer a tool to help small and midsized businesses use Microsoft CRM software in combination with a Cisco IP communication system. Cisco starting Monday is set to offer ...