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 ...

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. Security should be the ...

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 ...

David Stever, manager of communication technology services at PPL, knows that IP telephony is the future. He also knows that his company (formerly known as Pennsylvania Power & Light) has a massive ...

IBM is collaborating with 3Com to put IP telephony in an IBM server so small and midsize businesses can make phone calls more cheaply without adding extra servers to their networks. The IP telephony ...

The system, in principle, is simple. Replace the desktop phones with devices that digitise voice and connect to the LAN with their own IP addresses. Calls between these IP phones happen by ...

During the past four years, IP telephony has progressed from a gee-whiz concept of free phone calls over the Internet to a means of communication in use among established service bureaus. But it is ...

MUNICH: Adoption of IP (internet protocol) telephony is set to grow annually by 37pc worldwide over the next three years to reach 457 million lines, according to the networking equipment maker Avaya.