Since the Internet took off, in the early 1990s, telecom carriers' biggest problem has been how to efficiently transmit packetized data over their existing voice networks. Data's proportion of network ...

Editor’s Note: Because you can never have too many wizards, we have expanded the scope of the Wireless Wizards to include a full panel of experts from the top wireless vendors. They’re at your ...

Each year, Americans receive tens of billions of unwanted phone calls. The number of robocalls, spoof calls, spam calls and vishing threats is rapidly on the rise, leading organizations to take on ...

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IP telephony is a next-generation technology that is changing the way companies communicate, and is reshaping the business landscape. Through the unification of voice and data networks, IP telephony ...

CNET's Maggie Reardon discusses the short-term hurdles associated with the deployment of voice service over carriers' 4G LTE networks. In the end, the transition to an all IP-based voice network will ...

WASHINGTON — The unsettled Internet Protocol (IP) telephony industry gathered this week at the VoiceCon conference to assess its progress after a disastrous year for telecommunications companies. The ...

Most heads of IT around the world expect the convergence of data and voice networks to have a big impact on their businesses over the next five years--but most are going down this route mainly just to ...

Today, we’d like to get back to a few basics about the relationship between the public-switched telephone network and voice over IP. The PSTN includes a signaling system, a series of central offices ...

Worried about the security concerns of a converged network? Learn the basics about VoIP threats and get some network design recommendations for locking it down. As companies increasingly adopt Voice ...

Networks today must evolve into a robust, services-oriented platform that enriches emerging, innovative, composite applications and yet still manage to balance technology and business processes. In ...