We know Cisco is well entrenched in the enterprise, and now it is going full steam towards SMB space.
It will be interesting to see how the Fonality’s and Talkswitch’s of the world fair against Cisco who wants to compete and is showing that it’s ready by introducing very competitively priced products like the Cisco Unified Communications 500 […]
VoIP and your data network
30 Nov
Posted by Nadeem as Hardware, Networks, Software, Solutions | 126 Views
It is tempting to assume that you can simply implement VoIP on your existing network, as most vendors claim, and everything will just work, this is not the case.
For VoIP to be successful you have to have a certain level of service in place. Unlike data packets, voice packets must make it to their destination, if […]
I don’t want to get into predicting the future, but where is Vonage headed? After Verizon wins a US$58 million lawsuit and Vonage showing red on it’s financials. Here’s what Businessweek had to say about Vonage financials (get full article here), “For Vonage, profitability looks far-removed as well. While sales in the first nine months […]
So is it? Here’s an interesting article from eweek:
Microsoft is expected to release its latest enterprise instant messaging server, Live Communications Server 2005, later this month, and industry analysts suggest that its enhanced capabilities signal a concerted and not entirely surprising effort to move into the telephony and VOIP (voice over IP) market.
“They want to […]
When people think of VoIP, most of the time the first thing that comes to mind is free long distance.
This is just one of the perks, and not the biggest value-add perk. Most companies are rolling out VoIP to reduce infrastructure costs. For example, if you are moving into new office space, it is much […]
I’ve been using voice over IP for a while and it works great, but what about video over IP?
Although relatively new, I’ve been using video over IP for over a year now. I’m basically using it for entertainment, streaming media over IP via an 802.11g connection to my entertainment system.
I’ve tried several streaming applications to […]
VOIP and Cell Phones
28 Nov
Posted by kaleem as Features, PDAs, Phones, Services, Wireless | 238 Views
Jayson Jepson pays 29 cents a minute to call London on his cell phone. Wouldn’t it be great, the founder of Mint Telecom asks rhetorically, if it were more like 2 cents a minute?
Now it is, courtesy of Mint and a growing corporate coterie selling cell phone versions of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software, […]
When a body of independent auditors and experts recommended that the State of California consider open-source software and voice over Internet Protocol telephony (VoIP) as two measures to cut costs in 2004, that was the signal that open source and VoIP should unite. After all, what’s better than free software? Open source is better, because […]