By Sharla Sikes
Voice over IP service has been steadily gaining momentum since it first became popularly accepted. Particularly attractive to small and medium businesses, most VoIP customers choose the service for its price.

By Sharla Sikes
When VoIP became a widely accepted form of communication, it was mostly offered by a host of small, independent service providers. As popular adoption of the service grew, the larger telecommunications companies began targeting their slice of the pie, too.
Today we have a mix; some of the startups have gone under, but many [...]

By Sharla Sikes
Betcha never thought of some of these. VoIP-News came up with this great list of other uses, showing VoIP’s flexibility. Here’s a few I like:

By Sharla Sikes
ATSI Communications, Inc., recently finished expansions on its VoIP network, working together with XO Communications. 
The two companies will operate under an agreement that will double the Internet bandwidth for ATSI, as well as increase that capacity in the future. XO provides on demand capabilities with its Ethernet services.

By Sharla Sikes
Nortel, a longtime big player in the VoIP market, announced a service assurance solution with IBM’s  Tivoli Netcool Carrier VoIP Manager software.  Expected to be available in July, the solution aims to boost network capacity and performance for communications service providers, Nortel says—without raising costs.

My SIP Switch is an open source project and a free service which allows using many SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) accounts with one SIP phone or SIP softphone. It is a customizable web based iPBX. The service can either be used online on www.mysipswitch.com or installed on a private version (on Windows or Linux with [...]