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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has evolved from a low-cost phone service into a platform for integrated business communications. In this ForwardView webshow, IBM explains the business advantages of running...
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Can't keep Midori straight from MinSafe? Unsure how Red Dog, Cosmos and Zurich fit in Microsoft's cloud OS picture?
Tracking Microsoft's myriad codenames is an (almost) full-time occupation....
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Anythony Sylvan Pools deployed ShoreTel to 14 divsions including 50 sites and 500 users.
With its rapid growth and increasing communications costs, Anthony & Sylvan started looking at VoIP solutions. While...
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By combining voice, video, and data on a single network, you can cut costs and do more. Learn how.
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VoIP helps improve productivity and efficiency. Learn how it can help you.
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Vivinet Assessor employs the E-model, a powerful and repeatable way to assess whether a data network is ready to carry VoIP calls well. It's reports show the underlying network attributes...
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This white paper describes the first three stages of a VoIP deployment in depth: planning, analysis, and assessment; evaluation and purchase; and initial deployment.
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Good quality voice-over-IP (VoIP) conversations depend on maintaining strict constraints for packet loss, delay, and jitter (contrast this with traditional data network traffic, where the focus is on response time...
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This paper describes how to determine whether a data network is ready to run VoIP traffic well, using Vivinet Assessor.
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Cisco CallManager is the key component in a successful voice over IP (VoIP) deployment that uses Cisco’s Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated Data (AVVID). Resource
“clustering” to build redundancy is...
Voice over the internet, usually referred to as voice over IP or VoIP, has been a buzz word in the communications sector for a few years. Performance is no longer the barrier to adoption that it was in the early days of VoIP.
Last year, Merrill Lynch and the state of Alaska both cancelled their contracts with integrators that had recommended Cisco gear be used in their VoIP networks. Cisco has been the industry cheerleader drumming up interest among large businesses for...
Consequently, VoIP applications buffer packets to allow them to be processed more smoothly. VoIP and packet switching makes for a more efficient use of network resources. What makes VoIP even more confusing is the varieties that it has spawned...
Denial of service attacks, where someone tries to hit your telephony server repeatedly with traffic, can theoretically stop a company using its VoIP system but there are other more insidious attacks, too.
Harders also dismissed any concerns about having to leave certain ports on the firewall open to allow for VoIP traffic: "In the majority of cases we don't see that as a particular risk and think we will be able to deal with that appropriately.
Though there is precious little evidence of VoIP security attacks, organisations cannot afford to be complacent. Make no mistake, says Anthony Plewes, VoIP is an attractive target for hackers and malware writers.