Many enterprises using Microsoft teams for collaboration are now turning their attention to telephony needs and asking: What can Microsoft do for me? But like any IT project, migrating your telephony ...

IP telephony is a next-generation technology that is changing the way companies communicate, and is reshaping the business landscape. Through the unification of voice and data networks, IP telephony ...

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 ...

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a method of sending audio voice signals -- or, more specifically, telephone signals -- as data packets over the Internet. By taking advantage of the different ...

Globally, market dynamics are evolving as telecom carriers reorient toward software-based offerings, while hyperscale cloud providers and specialized vendors compete to deliver advanced, ...

For the longest time, those of us in the communications technology space have equated voice technology with telephony. This was certainly the case before the AT&T breakup of the Bell system in 1984 ...

Security should be the first consideration for any IT department about to implement voice over IP on a local-area network, an executive with an equipment manufacturer says. “When you’re talking to ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. DirecTV is ...

Until Bill McGowan came on the scene in 1974, American Telephone and Telegraph had controlled all aspects of telephony in the United States through its monopoly position. It provided the lines into ...

As a Linux Journal reader, you've probably stumbled across Google Android here and there. You've probably read an introductory article or maybe you even downloaded an ...

As we continue to hear for plans by the service providers to discontinue POTS (plain old telephone service), the question of whether the traditional telephone will soon become obsolete is looming on ...