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 ...

IP telephony, while it promises to alter the way we use that hunk of plastic sitting on our desks, is still in search of its “killer app.” Consequently, changing perceptions about IP-based telephones ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 small businesses have always been ...

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 ...

The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. However, the term ...