By Sharla Sikes
Entrust your communications to someone offsite eliminates the need for expensive solutions to combat disaster situations. Hosted VoIP solutions can provide an added dimension of flexibility in times of disaster. It’s scalable; resilient; and can handle a “wide range of applications.”
Cypress Communications has aimed its new product at the hosted VoIP solutions market. […]

By Sharla Sikes
Citrix Online will release new versions of GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar software that now incorporate VoIP capability.
Both software suites feature support for Mac and telephone audio, and one-click web conferencing, designed for small and medium businesses.

 By Sharla Sikes
VoIP-PAL.com, a telecommunications products, announced the termination of an agreement between it and Big Apple Consulting USA.
“We have had many inquiries asking us if we have an investor relations firm working with us,” said Richard Kipping, chief executive officer of VoIP-PAL.com. “So to clarify, we thought we should announce that VoIP-PAL.com, Inc. suspended […]

By Sharla Sikes
Monema Communications, a Spanish startup, hit the VoIP market with its new TamTam PBX. TamTam is a “very visual” PBX that’s fully managed online, according to Antonio Cerrolaza from Monema.

By Sharla Sikes
Avaya, Cisco and Nortel are expected to release patches for newly found security issues in their VoIP systems.
The vulnerabilities, found by VoIPshield Laboratories, could allow attacks in remote code execution, unauthorized access, denial of service and information harvesting if targeted by online criminals.

By Sharla Sikes
Despite VoIP’s obvious benefits for small and medium businesses, it’s not a “set it and forget it” solution for communications. Incorporating analysis tools for VoIP into your network management system is vital.
But how to begin shopping for such tools?

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.

By Sharla Sikes
The benefits of VoIP have been much trumpeted, for individuals as well as small and medium businesses. But there are drawbacks, as well.
VoIP security issues have plagued the industry since it became popularly accepted. Since it is data, it is hackable, with results ranging from simple malicious mischief to identity theft and other […]

By Sharla Sikes
VoIP is a relatively young industry—young in the terms of it becoming mainstream, that is, not the technology itself. When it first became widely accepted, there were many small, independent providers of the service.
Now, recent trends show more and more consolidations, as larger telecommunications firms snap up the independents and startups.