Before rolling out voice over IP in a business, it pays to tap into the lessons others have learned. Anybody working on a VoIP project should stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before to avoid their mistakes and glean tips that can make their own deployments go more smoothly.
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Microsoft last week unveiled a VoIP-enabled phone system software platform based on Windows XP Embedded. “Response Point,” currently in beta, supports both IP- and traditional analog-based telephony, targets small businesses, and is expected ship this year in production devices from three vendors.
Phone systems based on Response Point technology will include a base unit (such as […]

Joe Nordgaard, managing director of telecom consultancy Spectral Advantage, points to a recent rollout of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev A in the Czech Republic and other deployments of Rev A as evidence that wireless technology is close to being able to adequately handle Voice over Internet Protocol technology, which needs broadband connections to operate efficiently.
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Two years ago, Barry Goldstein found himself at the foot of a path he could not refuse to take. It was time for Goldstein, the president and CEO of CT Networks, a Hauppauge, N.Y., solution provider, to move into the VoIP market.
The 23-year-old company had its roots in traditional telephony, but Goldstein began to see […]

Despite the difficulties faced by Vonage, the future for VoIP — Voice over Internet Protocol — remains attractive to growth-oriented advisors. Jim Oberweis Jr. notes, “VoIP is finally gaining traction — and people are now getting rid of their phone lines in droves, as the quality of VoIP has dramatically improved.”
Indeed, the money manager and […]

Skype is the best-known VoIP but Gizmo Project is equally (if not better) than Skype. I use both services and each has it’s strengths and weaknesses. I prefer Gizmo because it’s more fun (build in sound effects) less expensive than Skype. But, Skype seems to have a better connection and less dropped calls than Gizmo.
Gizmo […]

The promise of lower cost has motivated many enterprises to move their voice traffic to the enterprise IP wide area network (WAN). Many have discovered, however, that Voice over IP (VoIP) quality does not always meet business use standards.

48 per cent of networking professionals remain concerned about the general reliability and robustness of Voice over IP (VoIP) for serious business use according to a recent UK survey. 52 per cent of respondents also admitted to concerns about the ability of their network to withstand VoIP traffic. This was despite over 62 per cent […]

The market for VoIP in Britain is finally set to take off, according to a Vanson Bourne survey of 3,000 UK enterprise IT managers, commissioned by storage, voice and networking distributor, Zycko.
54 percent of respondents felt there were more advantages than barriers to the adoption of VoIP this year. 57 percent of financial services companies […]

Voice over IP is a growing industry, of that there is no question.  The question is how quickly is it growing, and how long will the trend continue.  For VoIP, Inc., a provider of VoIP solutions for service providers, resellers, and consumers, the answers are very rapidly and never, hopefully.  Indeed, the company continues to […]