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 ...

I responded that the core IP Telephony System (IPTS), the current moniker for a PBX, is still a vital component of any customer's enterprise communications network and that VoiceCon needs to offer ...

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 ...

James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. While school districts have always been ...

The all-software system is not quite here, but we are getting close. It makes one wonder how much further IP telephony system dematerialization can continue into the future. I attended a local Siemens ...

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 ...

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 ...

When preparing to manage an IP telephony network, an organization must carefully consider the product’s management capabilities and take steps to assure short-term and long-term success. These steps ...

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 ...

Juniper will use technology from Kagoor Networks to make it easier for carriers to deploy IP telephony throughout their networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Many small companies that lack technology skills may be blithely unaware that a revolution is underway in the world of business telephone systems. Why should you care particularly? Because new IP PBXs ...

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 ...