I manage a small office network (around 10 computers) for a client of mine, and they decided to get a new phone system without realizing it was an IP system. It is a Cisco IP phone system. Previously ...

The most reliable internet protocol (IP) desk phone is Polycom VVX because its hardware is crafted to an extremely high standard, and its user base appears to be consistently satisfied with its ...

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 ...

Many small companies that lack technology skills may be blithely unaware that a revolution is underway in the world of business telephone systems. Why should you care particularly? Because new IP PBXs ...

Appliances from Allworx, Critical Links, Fonality, Microsoft, and Sutus all combine sophisticated features and low cost; they differ in breadth and complexity, with Fonality’s Asterisk-based PBXtra ...

Toshiba America Information Systems’ Telecommunication Systems Division has unveiled a new business IP telephone system called IPedge. The system provides multiple unified communication applications ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

Office phones have come a long way in a relatively short time. With the introduction of Internet Protocol phones, new features make those devices more akin to computers than simple phone systems.