Avaya Inc. this week announced inline power capabilities for its Cajun stackable switch, allowing it to power IP phones through their network cables. The new technology, based on the 802.3af standard ...
It's been the big trend in enterprise telecoms for the past five years - run your data and voice traffic on the same IP network. Yet many of the companies that have adopted voice-over-IP have decided ...
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 ...
Dell’Oro Group last week forecast a healthy rise in IP phone shipments, plus a surprise turnaround for a LAN switch architecture that had fallen out of favor. The research firm predicted that revenue ...
“Many companies are replacing old phones with fancy, screen-based IP phones and IP/PBXs with related hardware, however most users continue to use the new phones like their old phones, only with a few ...
One candidate worth considering is the latest version of ShoreTel's IP-PBX platform. CRN Test Center engineers deployed ShoreTel 7 on a new ShoreGear-90 switch with the vendor's IP phones. ShoreTel 7 ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to allow telecom carriers to run trials with Internet Protocol networks replacing traditional, copper-based telephone systems. The FCC’s unanimous ...
On the morning of September 11, the day of the terrorist attacks, many students at Columbia University tried to make phone calls to family members and friends, but Manhattan’s telephone networks were ...