Businesses are failing to secure their IP telephony networks because of a lack of knowledge, according to one veteran VoIP engineer. Eric Vyncke, author of LAN switch security: What hackers know about ...

Internet protocol (IP) telephony is an umbrella term for an array of technologies used in exchanging information over voice, fax, and other mediums. It can deliver voice and other multimedia formats ...

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 ...

Hosted service lets enterprise users save on operational and capital expenditures, and reap the benefits of next-generation voice-over-IP services. Some companies that want to implement IP telephony ...

IP telephony is no longer just for companies that do a lot of geographically disparate work. Our columnist gives you the long-distance view. Years ago I remember being very interested in an issue of ...

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 ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The unsettled Internet Protocol (IP) telephony industry gathered this week at the VoiceCon conference to assess its progress after a disastrous year for telecommunications companies. The ...

Avaya in September debuted a new version of IP Office, its primary unified communications offering for small and midsize businesses. The update, IP Office Release 5, is software that can be customized ...

You’ve studied the promising return on investment for IP telephony and researched vendor solutions that appear to fit your company’s needs. If you’ve done your homework, you also know that merging ...

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. Cisco ...