In our last VoIP installment, we looked at the main reasons why SIP has become a widely adopted protocol, but we left details of the protocol’s inner workings fairly vague. This article will drill ...

VoIP phones offer the familiar look of a conventional desk phone with similar functionality, but aren’t as plug-and-go. Like so much networking kit, setting up a VoIP phone can be a very frustrating ...

Even many IT professionals haven't heard of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), so it's almost certain your users haven't. However, unless you're using an entirely proprietary Voice-over-IP (VoIP) ...

I’ve had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...

Voice over IP has reached the point where it’s good enough to be taken seriously in the enterprise. The poor voice quality and dropped calls are things of the past, and the current technology delivers ...

We are becoming less and less dependent on mobile networks. You can get a data signal almost everywhere that you can get a mobile signal and most of us are around WiFi most of the time anyway.

For all the technology behind Voice over IP (VoIP), you'd expect that it would work on every network, but this unfortunately isn't the case. Network Address Translation (NAT) is a common practice used ...

Microsoft will release a public beta of new voice-over-IP (VoIP) server software by the end of this month. The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, ...