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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. IBM and ...

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 ...

IP telephony uses the internet protocol (IP) to transport voice signals over a data network. Instead of using the conventional analog voice signal (sine wave signal), human speech is converted into a ...

Cisco has announced that it will provide a dual-mode IP telephony solution that utilizes the N902iL FOMA / wireless LAN dual-mode mobile phone from NTT DoCoMo, coupled with Cisco Unified CallManager ...

SMC Networks has announced the launch of its new line of IP telephony solutions for the office and road. The new SIP-based IP-PBX (SMCPBX10), desktop phones (SMCDSP-200/205) and ultra-portable 802.11g ...

To hear vendors talk about it, you’d think IP telephony in the enterprise was a tsunami about to break across corporate America. Indeed, traditional private branch exchange (PBX) vendors, initially ...