Evslin said ITXC will be using Cisco's AS5000 Universal Gateway, which converts a telephone signal into digital packets that can travel over the web, and its PGW2200 Softswitch, which directs the flow of calls over the web.
British Airways has completed a review of its IT operations that has taken £50m per year off the bottom line over a year ahead of schedule as part of a massive organisation-wide cost-cutting programme.
Just as a web page can be broken up into 'packets', audio can be sampled with a digital signal processor (DSP), 'packetised' and sent out over an IP-based network as another data stream. To control switching in this environment, either a media...
The drop is due to the rise of voice over IP (VoIP) services, the uptake of mobile phones as a substitute for landlines and growth of broadband which has a set monthly fee, IDC said in a recent study, Fixed Telephony Services in Western Europe...
said on Wednesday it will offer two new fee-based voice over IP (VoIP) services so customers can make voice calls from a PC to a telephone and receive phone calls on a PC. Called Phone Out and Phone In, the new VoIP services are part of Yahoo!
Quality of service is the most common barrier for enterprises considering the switch to voice over IP (VoIP), according to new research. Speaking at the show, Deloitte partner David Tansley agreed that voice quality and reliability continue to be...