The launch also includes the VG 248 voice analog gateway, designed to help customers bridge the gap between converged IP networks and legacy analog phones, faxes and PBX equipment. The company is aiming to encourage businesses to run data and...
Admittedly, they did use ships to cross water but mostly they just walked. Although it can be very valuable, especially where top quality equipment is available, it has grown only slowly. So even if Ken Livingstone could persuade BT to make...
Traffic on virtual private networks (VPNs) is commonly encrypted for transmission between sites but companies have to be aware that the QoS offered by a VPN often will not match up to the QoS support offered by the LAN switch.
To overcome this, a network needs to have 'Quality of Service' (QoS), a technology which guarantees bandwidth to time sensitive applications like voice and tells others to wait their turn. There are various standards initiatives on their way which...
Ian Sherring, business development manager of IP communications at Cisco Systems, says: "The big driver for teleworking is quality of service (QoS) support over DSL. And some of the key selling points for IP telephony, such as the simplicity of...
Within five years, all calls on the BT metro and core networks will be transformed into voice over IP (VoIP). Even home users can get BT internet telephony. One of the more significant building blocks of the new network will be the deployment of an...