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 ...

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 ...

IP telephony has long been the bridesmaid of the communications industry. A maturing technology that sends voice traffic over existing data networks, including wide-area networks such as the Internet, ...

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 ...

Conformance to industry standards such as SIP is greatly helping drive down system costs and enhancing design choice flexibility. In my recent No Jitter article reviewing the VoiceCon Orlando RFP ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rarely does bad news come wrapped around good news, but if your company needs to upgrade your telephone system, consider yourself lucky. OK, not lucky, because replacing phone systems takes far more ...

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 ...