Virtually all currently marketed IP telephony systems share a common design platform of server-based call control and distributed media gateways, but there still remain noticeable differences that ...

Many enterprises using Microsoft teams for collaboration are now turning their attention to telephony needs and asking: What can Microsoft do for me? But like any IT project, migrating your telephony ...

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 ...

Last week, we highlighted an Avaya announcement about the company’s new IP Telephony system called Avaya Distributed Office, designed to meet the challenges of smaller offices that are part of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Asterisk-based PBX proved to be the solution to one company's communications growing pains. For Sean Brown, CEO of One Call Support Services (a division of U.S. Network Management, a managed ...

In the middle of a $150 million renovation and expansion of its two high schools and administration building, the district had to decide whether to go with an expanded PBX system or move to IP ...

IT is not very generally known that the engineers of the British Post Office have begun to change the telephone system of London into a fully automatic one. The task is enormous and it will be fifteen ...

Editor's Note: This is a revised version of the article that appeared in the May 2006 issue of SIGNAL. Staff Sgt. Bob Abujen, USAF, command post senior controller, Air Education and Training Command, ...