Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched ...

Network gear component makers are producing new chips and switch fabric technologies that could make products such as IP telephones and Gigabit LAN switches faster and less expensive. Texas ...

When Education Department officials adopted voice-over-IP technology two years ago, they wanted technology that could smoothly handle customers' calls to the Federal Student Aid office. Now, they view ...

Once IP telephony is installed and employees reach a comfort level, IT and business managers typically find new and creative ways to use it. Patient scheduling, accounting: Several healthcare ...

NTL Telewest is developing a voice-over-IP residential telephone service and has appointed telecoms giant Ericsson to help roll it out. A five year agreement has been signed between the two parties.

The bundles that scale to 10, 50 or 100 users are available now to VARs that have been trained in convergence by Alcatel. The products are priced at about 30 percent less than they would cost if ...

LAS VEGAS — At the Networld+Interop conference here, Nortel Networks Corp. yesterday announced its strategy to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GE) over optical fiber to simplify network management and to ...