VOIP Articles

Technology » VOIP | By Gregory Smyth @ Sunday, 22nd June 2008 @ 11:32 PM

How can you make sure that your network is living up to the requirements, both before and after deploying VoIP services? Given below are some very useful guidelines you can look up to before deploying VoIP in your network, or when you desire to better the quality of your network after deployment. Whether choosing a vendor partner or testing and deploying the VoIP network yourself, ensure your tools provide granular diagnostics and reporting capabilities that enable you to efficiently t... more...

Technology » VOIP | By john mce @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 3:22 PM

Voice over IP telephone services are revolutionising how the world communicates, individuals, and businesses are embracing the capabilities and harnessing the power of the internet. Despite voice over IP being a great technological breakthrough, security is still a major concern, yet with the proper precautions it should not have to be. Most users implementing VOIP these days are primarily concerned about voice quality, latency and interoperability. However we shouldn't overlook the... more...

Technology » VOIP | By john mce @ Sunday, 18th May 2008 @ 5:46 PM

Voice over IP (VOIP) is one of the greatest things to come out of the internet. Although not a new concept, since scientists realised its potential back in the 70s, it has really only become popular within the last half a decade. There are a number of reasons why it didn't come about earlier, the main being slow web speeds. Before broadband, using VOIP services was fairly temperamental, often calls were jittery, laggy and poor quality. Thankfully broadband and particularly wireless internet... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Musa Aykac @ Thursday, 17th April 2008 @ 4:04 PM

What is VoIP? It uses the same principles as a phone but it uses the transmission of the internet. Most Ip Telephony to VoIP phones are actually free - amazing no call charges and no more bills. So if there were Ip telephony networks set up all over the world with everyone using them, it would have a massive effect on not only the current phone providers but maybe mobile service providers aswell. VoIP relies on broadband or internet connection to connect to other users but is this a bad t... more...

Technology » VOIP | By gregory burrus @ Wednesday, 16th April 2008 @ 3:14 AM

As you work your business on a daily basis, you are probably wondering how yo can expand the reach of your business. Usually this means you need to build up the infrastructure of your business and you will need to increase your marketing efforts. One of services we will recommend you look at is the unlikely voice over internet protocol or VOIP Technology. To increase your business expansion capabilities one of the first things you probably have completed is to determine how your product... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Chris Monato @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 12:49 AM

Your small business is thriving and that small office you created to handle the business is simply not handling the incoming calls from the customers. With the future of your business looking bright, you need to go back and rework that business plan to include some of the business necessities you thought you would not need so soon. A new business often cuts corners here and cuts costs there in order to make for a profitable business beginning. Once the success of the business in clear, a look ba... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Chris Monato @ Wednesday, 9th April 2008 @ 11:49 PM

Choosing a phone system is not usually the first thing on a new small business owner's mind. Even after your office is established and operational, your small business' phone system will likely function so smoothly that it will fade into the background. But what do you do when you need to install a new small phone system or replace an existing phone system? Do you know the choices available to you and what every option means? Small business phone systems can seem confusing, but ... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Low Jeremy @ Monday, 7th April 2008 @ 7:49 PM

The telephone is what people consider as a necessity in their everyday lives. Homes and businesses alike take advantage of this tool to communicate. In homes, you use it to keep in touch with your family and friends, and in business, you use it to keep in touch with business associates. Telephones are definitely a must-have for every homes and businesses. However, long distance calls and extra features are too expensive in a conventional landline phone. However, you should consider the fa... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Aaron Siegel @ Wednesday, 2nd April 2008 @ 2:17 PM

VoIP has been marketed as the affordable alternative to traditional land line calling since it first started being advertised in commercials years ago. As a stand alone product the pricing seems too good to pass up, especially with the promise of quality voice communications for less but is it really an affordable option that anyone can afford? The technology of broadband phone typically allows for calls to be made domestically for one small monthly fee throughout the country on the most ... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Giorgos Kontopoulos @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 8:54 AM

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has been out for some time now but still has not yet received the proper attention from either household users or businesses. Many people have yet to discover the advantages of VoIP compared to the regular phones. VoIP is a technology that has been commercially available since Level 3 introduced its "softswitch" 10 years ago. In the early years the technology was new and many shortcomings were stopping people from widely adapting such solution... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Andrew Stratton @ Thursday, 20th March 2008 @ 7:01 PM

For small businesses, one of the biggest challenges can be competing with the larger firms fighting for the same market. With limited resources and space, a small business must find economical and efficient ways to make up for their lack of size. Traditionally, one of the biggest selling points for using a small enterprise is the relative ease with which the consumer can connect with the business, getting around the bureaucratic mess associated with larger offices. The easiest way to str... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 19th March 2008 @ 1:25 AM

VoIP is a great way to communicate with family and friends at a very low price. However, there are a variety of hindrances with switching to VoIP. This article goes over many of the disadvantages of VoIP, which may have experienced. Additionally, this article will explain how you can improve the quality of VoIP phone service. Disadvantages of VoIP Although there are many advantages of VoIP, there are also quite a few disadvantages. Below are four of the most common disadvanta... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Aaron Siegel @ Sunday, 16th March 2008 @ 6:33 AM

VoIP which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol is changing the way people think about making long distance phone calls. VoIP uses technology that can translate analog audio signal, the signal traditionally used for telephone calls, into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet and translated back to analog at the other end, if necessary. This technology can also be used without traditional phones, bypassing the phone company (and the outrageous fees) altogether. Thi... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Terry Fitzroy @ Tuesday, 26th February 2008 @ 5:34 PM

It's not easy to find the right VOIP service provider. Often times people get themselves into situations that they don't want to be in because they didn't take the time to choose their service provider wisely. Here you'll find several things that you should consider before choosing which VOIP service provider you will go with for your service. One of the first questions you should ask your VOIP is about the cost, and make sure that you tell them to give you all of th... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Terry Fitzroy @ Thursday, 31st January 2008 @ 6:54 PM

VOIP has become a buzzword in recent times, but it's really more than a buzzword, because there are many advantages of it at home. Do you know the benefits of using VOIP? First let's make sure you understand what VOIP is. VOIP or voice over internet protocol is a way of taking [traditional telephone signals] and turning them into digital data that is broadcast across the internet. This internet technology takes your standard internet telephone and turns it into a free ph... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Jim Brown @ Sunday, 25th November 2007 @ 12:34 AM

Over the years, communications has drastically evolved with the help of computer electronics. Communicating across the world has been fairly easy for anybody who is familiar with computers and for most of them it's for free. One major contributing factor for this evolution is the development and advancement of the VOIP telephony system. It has crossed international communication with a zip by eliminating expensive overseas call. Since the platform for this technological wonder is int... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Friday, 16th November 2007 @ 7:57 PM

How much do you know about Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions, like IP Telephony (IPT)? Do you believe they're primarily for home users interested in free long-distance calls or inexpensive international calls? Or, do you believe its primary benefit is the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) of managing all of your business communications over a converged network? The interesting thing about VoIP is that in many ways the end user is driving the technology to the business w... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Friday, 19th October 2007 @ 10:24 PM

IP telephony has reshaped the business organizations and revolutionized the way the business firms communicate. IP telephony is a sophisticated style of communication technology that allows all types of communications including audio, video, and wired as well as wireless voice, through the usage of Internet Protocol (IP) network. In other words, IP telephony is simply a term collectively given for technologies that adopt packet-switched connections of the Internet Protocol in order to exc... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Ivanovich Cuxev @ Sunday, 19th August 2007 @ 12:03 AM

A lot has been said and discussed about the virtues of the many of possible VOIP solutions and how this technology is one of the best inventions since the creation of the internet. Many marketing ideas have been put in action to educate people about the fact that this technology offers so many advantages over regular phone service, that a baby could tell one is better than the other, so making a financially smart decision in the telephony field is not that difficult. There are several pho... more...

Technology » VOIP | By Christine Harrell @ Wednesday, 15th August 2007 @ 12:14 PM

We've all heard about how much we can save with VoIP, but which is the best voice over VoIP company in terms of overall value? With a newer technology such as VoIP that many are trying for the first time, it can be difficult even to know what points to compare. In this article, we'll dig beyond the marketing messages and compare VoIP companies Vonage and Sunrocket on several different critical points. Compare VoIP Companies: Cost Sunrocket named itself the "the eco... more...