Corporate managers charged with implementing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) could compromise security unless they look at the platform as an Internet service rather than traditional telephony, ...

When it comes to choosing a business phone system, you might find yourself stuck on a critical question: Should you stay with traditional phone systems or switch to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ...

Faced with the high cost of buying a traditional telephone system, Digium CEO Mark Spencer made use of his own programming skills to create Asterisk, an open-source alternative. Spencer had helmed a ...

Now is the time to begin implementing open source IP telephony. Here’s why. Now is the time to begin implementing open source IP telephony. Here’s why: • Open source business models are changing ...

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 ...

Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a new IP telephony (IPT) initiative that offers standard packages of hardware and software that promise to cut customers’ upfront costs by up to 30%. The IPT 1 ...

Embattled telecommunications provider WorldCom Inc. is preparing to roll out a turnkey service based on IP telephony that will enable companies to replace their traditional public switched telephone ...

Juniper will use technology from Kagoor Networks to make it easier for carriers to deploy IP telephony throughout their networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...