A voice over IP (VoIP) service can boost your call quality and save you money compared with a traditional landline. These are the best VoIP services we've tested for home phone needs. I’ve been ...

The term Voice over IP (VoIP) does not refer to a single service but encompasses an entire collection of services that can fill the phone service needs of many different residential and business ...

Global Crossing last week announced a series of VoIP offerings for business users that range from simple transport to fully managed VoIP over the carrier’s IP VPN services. Global Crossing last week ...

VoIP-over-3G will be far more successful than the voice-over-Wi-Fi approach being touted by many communications providers, a new report suggests. According to analyst Dean Bubley, of Disruptive ...

Over the past few years, a significant penetration of Voice over IP (VoIP) systems has occurred in both enterprise and residential markets. VoIP enables the convergence of data and voice networks into ...

We recently received a reader's question asking why VoIP quality was different when going over the Internet vs. going over a corporate IP connection. So today, we'd like to review a few basics about ...

The most reliable internet protocol (IP) desk phone is Polycom VVX because its hardware is crafted to an extremely high standard, and its user base appears to be consistently satisfied with its ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. As Internet ...

As shown in Exhibit 1, the Yankee Group’s 2004 Enterprise Communications Spending (ECS) Survey found 93 percent of government and 88 percent of education respondents currently use IP VPNs. However, 82 ...

VoIP-over-VPN technology protects the privacy of corporate voice communications in industrial networks, while delivering the cost-saving and technology benefits of Voice-over-IP. By reducing or ...

Gear makers have been pitching Net phoning and wireless networks separately to businesses, with lackluster results. Now, they're starting to serve up a combo platter. Marguerite Reardon started as a ...