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SIP Trunking is Key to Accelerating Unified Communications Deployments

Companies today are undergoing a significant transformation to a more global Anywhere Enterpriseâ„¢. Unified communications UC is a crucial component in this evolution and organizations look to collaborate better with an extended enterprise (see Exhibit 1 on the next page). UC has the power to help companies lower the overall...

Tags: SIP, Unified Communications, SIP Trunking, Collaboration

White papers 2009-06-01

SIP trunking 101

Voice, instant messaging, and video no longer have to be islands of collaboration. Kenneth Kuenzel, founder and CTO of Covergence, shows how SIP trunking enables organizations to not only connect these tools, but control, manage and repair them.

Tags: SIP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies, SIP Trunking

Whiteboards 2008-07-07

Additional Resources

Batman Meets VoIP

Batman Meets VoIPIP Man is cool!I like it better than watching TV. ;)I do have Vonage (Basic 500). But sometimes, I do have problems with my Vonage phone adapter (V-Portal) not registering with the Vonage network. I had to struggle with my phone adapter to get it to work and...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cable, Network technology, VoIP, IP Man, Vonage Holdings Corp., phone, V-Portal, Vonage Phone, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Batman Meets VoIP

Forget Batman and IronMan. The folks at BroadVox think they've got the next Hollywood thriller: IP Man. This new superhero fights the evils of today's carriers and shows the world the virtues of VoIP. In this latest episode, IP Man and his sidekick but of course Metoo fight the evls...

Tags: SIP, VoIP, IP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-01-29

SIP is the future of telecommunications

SIP is the future of telecommunicationsahhh no mention of IAX(2)?IAX(2) is better than SIP... they just want to focus on what they have and not what they should be using.I cisco, but at times like this... it makes me wonder.RE: SIP is the future of telecommunicationsYep, you can buy a...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IAX2, telecommunications, SIP, Asterisk, IAX

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

SIP is the future of telecommunications

As was clear from last week's ITEXPO in Los Angeles, SIP is shaping up to be the standard replacement protocol for the traditional TDM / SS7 network. SIP trunking starts to make it possible to offer an end-to-end digital communications solution that can call any number in the world...without...

Tags: SIP, Telephony, Protocol, Telecommunications, Conference, SS7, T1 Connection, Session Initiation Protocol Trunk Connection, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-22

What Microsoft's Been Missing from its Small Business Telephony Play

Microsoft announced today that it was teaming up with Cbeyond, Inc., and New Global Telecom, Inc. NGT, to combine their digital voice services with Response Point, Microsoft’s specification for small offices PBXs. ResponsePoint systems are distinguished by a blue button on the handset. Pressing the button...

Tags: Cbeyond Inc., Phone, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., ResponsePoint, ResponsePoint System, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Sametime and OCS Compared

Brent Kelly from Wainhouse Research has done a great job comparing and contrasting Lotus Sametime and Microsoft OCS 2007. The biggest differences? Orientation and support for telephony. I've flushed details on Sametime's Unified Telephony that he wasn't able to cover and I've summarized the slew of functional differences...

Tags: SIP, IBM Lotus SameTime, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., PBX, IBM Corp., OCS, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Groupware, Telephony, VOIP, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP"

Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP""Comcast pipes" encircle the world?I believe you meant to say that for the trip to the backbone your call travels on Comcast pipes. To reach outside of the Comcast subscriber set your call travels like everyone else's.More misinformation...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Network technology, Comcast Corp., Digital Voice, VoIP, IP, network

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Voice over IP Foundations

Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and Locations Gain essential data networking and Voice over IP VoIP knowledge in a single, week-long class. In this course, you will learn how VoIP...

Tags: SIP, H.323, IP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Emerging Technologies

Training 2008-01-01

Digium: as of this a.m., one million Asterisk downloads this year

Just a quick note this a.m. to mark that Digium The Asterisk Company has just announced its one millionth download in 2007 of its open-source  Internet telephony solution. This has been an upbeat year for Huntsville, Alabama-based Digium.  Four possible quarters this year now marks 24...

Tags: Solution, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Nice effort, VoSKY, but just the name "Skype" is a no-deploy zone for enterprise IT

On Friday, I spoke to David Tang, CEO of network gateway-maker VoSKY. He wanted to offer his perspective on a blog post I authored the previous week, in which I wrote why Skype VoSKY Exchange gateways have a big task ahead. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Skype Technologies S.A., David, Telephony, VOIP, Strategy, Networking, Telecommunications, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Integrating SIP Trunks in Enterprise Networks for Next-Generation Unified Communications

The adoption of Unified Communications within the enterprise is well underway. The major benefits of this transformation include gains in both employee productivity and operational efficiencies. This paper is the first in a three-part series that discusses the evolution and adoption of Unified Communications trunking services in the enterprise, and...

Tags: SIP, Unified Communications, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration

White papers 2007-08-01

The Purpose of a SIP-Aware Firewall/ALG

This paper will explore the purpose of a Session Initiation Protocol SIP-aware firewall/Application Layer Gateway ALG when having SIP trunks to a service provider. Provided in this document is a brief description of the SIP and Network Address Translation NAT technologies. In addition, this paper will highlight problems that NAT...

Tags: SIP, Objectworld Communications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies

White papers 2007-02-01

I take the Bandwidth.com VoIP test- and you can, too

I take the Bandwidth.com VoIP test- and you can, tooTongue-in-cheek?Forgive me but I can't tell if you're tone is tongue-in-cheek or not. I can't help bringing a bunch of healthy skepticism to these thinly-veiled marketing vehicles. I'm not gonna argue that a T1 is bad but depending upon your organization...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, IAX2, Voice-over-IP Service Provider, VoIP, Bandwidth.com VoIP test, Bandwidth.com

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

Will enterprise users buy business VoIP from consumer VoIP providers?

Will enterprise users buy business VoIP from consumer VoIP providers?Vonage is already doing this through VARsSee: http://www.neobits.com/vonage_business_plus_4-line_plan_p9197.html#descriptionBusiness VoIPYes, the SMB market is demanding a sensible VoIP solution. As of Today, it was reported that Vonage is no longer offering their "Business Plus" service that was suppossed to be offically...

Tags: Telephony, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, consumer VoIP provider, enterprise user, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-20

The great open source VoIP debate

Two weeks ago at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in Miami, I had the pleasure of moderating the open source and telephony roundtable discussion with some of the key players in the business. The panel included Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and CEO of Digium; Bill Rich, CEO of...

Tags: SIP, IAX, Asterisk, telephony

Blog posts 2005-03-09

VoIP and open source, the next great frontier

As the commoditization and open sourcing of operating systems and applications continue to disrupt the software companies, telephony vendors have so far enjoyed a relative calm in the closed and proprietary phone systems market with substantial profit margins. That could now all be turned on its head with the proliferation...

Tags: IAX, Asterisk

Blog posts 2005-01-10