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- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog
- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analogVery interesting!But these are probably more than I need at home. kiddingThanks George for a good topic!WiringThe problem with splitting out to analog is all the wiring punch down that has to be done. Being able to use an IP phone...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Currency & Foreign exchange, NETWORKING, Network technology, phone, IP, IP phone, VoIP, T1-PRI, analog phone, network
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Study: Net telephony quality worsening
- Study: Net telephony quality worseningWide-Area VOIP is overhyped nonsenseThink about it. Raise call volume to infinity over a circuit switched network; and eventually you get an "All Circuits Busy" SIT tone. Calls 1 to infinity-minus-1 are unaffected by this threshold.Do the same on a packet switch network; and...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Routers & switches, Telecom & Utilities, NETWORKING, VoIP, VoIP IS, network, IP telephony, telephony
- Discussion threads 2006-07-24
- 20% of US adults believe VOIP is a European hybrid vehicle, 10% think of low-carb vodka
- 20% of US adults believe VOIP is a European hybrid vehicle, 10% think of low-carb vodkaNo surpriseThere are very few people not working directly in the IT area that can or want to keep up with all the latest buzz. Hell, even some of the IT people fall into...
- Tags: VoIP IS
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Byte the power: PoE for VoIP is very juice-intensive
- Byte the power: PoE for VoIP is very juice-intensiveMath mixup?I lost the math here:300/75 = 120AFAIK, that should be 4. 300/75% is 225.Perhaps someone can explain.Frank
- Tags: PoE, VoIP IS
- Discussion threads 2005-09-08
- Report: Vonage in talks to sell to BellSouth
- Report: Vonage in talks to sell to BellSouthThat would be a good score for BellSouthIf I'm not mistaken, I think they both make available to their VoIP subscribers that awesome eyeBeam softphone product from Xten.BellSouth just might corner the SIP-to-PBX service provider market.Stupid and desperate future history of telcosTelcos are...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Telephony, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, BellSouth Corp., VoIP, Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP IS, POTS, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- Analyst: Managed VoIP may be the way to go
- Analyst: Managed VoIP may be the way to goVoIP is nothing without a stable networkWhile VoIP is more than just sending packets on the network, any disruption of packets on that network can kill VoIP. Running a pure VoIP IP Phone based setup requires more than just outsourcing the...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Managed VoIP, VoIP IS, network
- Discussion threads 2005-06-03
- Gartner exec to VoIP-resistant CIOs: get with the program
- Gartner exec to VoIP-resistant CIOs: get with the programWhy listen to Gartner?They have been wrong more times then not. Voip is safer? How? Depending on the internet for all communications, is a risk that will cost money over the long run. VOIP is great in a company with a...
- Tags: Telephony, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, VoIP IS, VoIP-resistant, Gartner Inc., VoIP, virus, network, POTS
- Discussion threads 2005-05-17
- Cyber Security Group: six reasons why VoIP is vulnerable
- Cyber Security Group: six reasons why VoIP is vulnerableCyber Security Group: six reasons why VoIP is vulnerableSince VOIP is an emerging technology that is marketed as an alternative resource, such points as the ones raised in this article are highly relevant and useful. It goes to the heart of...
- Tags: VoIP IS, Cyber Security Group
- Discussion threads 2005-05-10
- Qwest to turn up heat on SBC-AT
- Qwest to turn up heat on SBC-ATWhah!I just love how corporations use the law, and the "powers that be" to further their own agenda, and all under the disguise of appearing to be "concerned for the consumer." Okay, so it's probably not in the end consumer's best interest...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Qwest Communications Inc., merger, VoIP IS
- Discussion threads 2005-04-26
- Vonage says Clearwire interfered with VoIP calls
- Vonage says Clearwire interfered with VoIP callsParasiteVoIP is as much a parasite as spam. As pointed out in the article, they hitchhike on the back of established broadbands without paying the provider a fee. This takes up bandwidth, and all the rest of us pay for it in...
- Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, Cyberthreats, Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP IS, parasite, bandwidth, cable, Clearwire Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- The tracks of my tiers: why residential VoIP is a lot like cable tv
- The tracks of my tiers: why residential VoIP is a lot like cable tvyet another nailin the coffin of VoIP as a service.
- Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, VoIP IS, cable television
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- VoIP is ready for prime time
- VoIP is ready for prime timeanyone know of a zytel p2000w WiFi VoIP or similar that is cheapThe zytel costs about $300 in the UK. A cheap VoIP deskphone costs about $100. plus into LAN. You *CAN* get $10 phones that plug into the...
- Tags: Telephony, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS, HERE ARE, VoIP, WiMAX, VoIP IS, network
- Discussion threads 2005-02-23
- VoIP is no threat, says British telecom giant
- VoIP is no threat, says British telecom giantall baby bells did this"BT seems to have learned its lesson from the late 1990s, when it was widely accused of holding back broadband rollout to protect its ISDN business."until cable changed all that, then they decided to give consumers what they wanted,...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, British Telecommunications, VoIP IS
- Discussion threads 2004-11-30
- Routers, phones dialing in VoIP
- Routers, phones dialing in VoIPBuilt in ATAVoip is here to stay.Adding 20.00 to get VOIP is cheap...Move over or speed...VOIP is coming..As soon as FCC gives approval we will see the VOIP / SIP / Wi-Fi phone combo's 9no more *67 whne I must call a customer using my cell...
- Tags: Telephony, Modems, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, phone, VoIP IS, modem, router
- Discussion threads 2004-01-12
Additional Resources
- Microsoft OCS R2 adds single-number reach, hosted audio conferencing
- Microsoft did, as expected, go public at long last with details about its Office Communications Server OCS Release 2 (R2) product on October 14 at the VoiceCon show. Here's what's coming in the upgrade to Microsoft's unified IM/VOIP/conferencing platform. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Audioconferencing, Communications Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft OCS R2, Office Communications Server Release 2, Release 2, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Orion VoIP Monitor (zip)
- VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track performance of voice quality across WAN links. Leveraging Cisco IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important quality of service QoS metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the...
- Tags: Performance, SolarWinds, VoIP Monitor, Telephony, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-06
- fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free
- fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for freeI've been waiting for an application like this . . .Great to see that some really useful applications are starting to make their way through the Apple screening process.If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many...
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple iPhone, fring, Skype Call, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-05
- fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free
- Back in April I wrote about the availability of fring on the iPhone, but at that time you needed a jailbroken iPhone to use it and the iPhone 3G wasn't yet available. You may recall that fring is a VoIP application that lets you use Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Skype Technologies S.A., 3G, Wireless LANs, Microsoft Windows, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Telephony, Instant Messaging, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
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