VoIP: Easier Voice, More Locations
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For business travelers, it has become relatively easy to wirelessly connect to corporate networks and the Internet from Wi-Fi hot-spots.
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Voice over IP holds a lot of promise. To its boosters, VoIP is an obvious way to save money by routing phone calls over the same internal network that carries your data traffic. But IT managers have to tread carefully: VoIP technology can bite back in many ways, ranging from network slowdowns interfering with calls, to new staff and security requirements. Read this report to learn about these issues as well as best practices to help get your own VoIP initiative off the ground.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft will release a public beta of new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) server software by the end of this month.The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said. On the company's Web site, users can register to download the beta versions of Office Communications Server 2007, as well as Office Communicator 2007, a client application for mobiles and desktops that enables instant messaging, voice, and video. Microsoft plans a formal announcement on Wednesday at the VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida. Office Communications Server will compete with hardware and software VOIP products from companies such as Cisco Systems and Avaya. Microsoft, however, is leveraging the wide use of its Office productivity suite and Exchange 2007 by integratingÂ them with the new server, part of its "unified" communications strategy. For example, users can launch a VOIP call by clicking on a person's name in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program or its SharePoint Server 2007, a portal and collaboration tool, the company said. The embedded "presence" technology can determine whether a person is busy or not. Other options include Web-based audio and video conferences. Enterprises are adopting VOIP to reduce their phone bills, although concerns remain over deployment, reliability, and voice quality. Microsoft said companies won't have to rip out their existing PBX (private branch exchange) phone networks. Communications Server 2007 interoperates with PBX networks through SIP (session initiation protocol) -- the protocol used for VOIP calls -- and works with different phones, devices, and management tools, Microsoft said. Â
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Gizmo Project VoIP software now lets you chat with AIM and MSN Messenger users on the same network.
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UK regulator Ofcom decided to make geographic and non-geographic numbers available for VoIP (voice over IP) services. Non-geographic VoIP numbers will have a 056 prefix code, and will be available to all &quot;local
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Ever wonder where your voice goes after you hear that ominous warning, "Your call may be recorded . . ."? Ever doubt that it goes anyplace at all? Well, in today's hi-tech, computer-driven world, there's a place for everything.
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VoIP, or voice traffic over the  Internet, is headed for Mexico offering an opportunity for  upstart telecommunications companies but a headache for  traditional companies, who see pressure on their earnings as  the cost of long distance calls decline.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41914) has announced the addition of Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction to their offering.
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Upcoming cell phone will offer integrated VoIP features and tools for wireless Web access.
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Internet and mobile test and measurement company Keynote Systems says that VoIP services outperform landline phone systems in call quality, although the technology still has some ground to make up in other areas such as audio delay.
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InfoWorld - Aiming to let enterprises do more with their IP (Internet Protocol) telephony systems and keep them available when a network goes down, Avaya introduced new software, phones, and a gateway at this week&#39;s VoiceCon Spring conference.
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VoIP service will be available using traditional handsets.
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NEW YORK - Traditional phone systems may be going the way of the Pony Express. Voice-over-Internet Protocol, technology that allows users to make and receive phone calls using the Internet, is giving the old circuit-switched system a run for its money.
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Software radio could offer an elegant solution to what a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.
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VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, may be geek speak for calls routed through cyberspace. But for many consumers, VoIP translates into ever-cheaper and sometimes feature-rich telephone alternatives. Consider the Skype service I've been testing. It lets members talk free from one computer to another.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- There are a number of ways an organization can connect to a group of workers at a remote location using voice and fax over an IP network or the Internet.  Most of them are expensive involving IP phones or an IP PBX.
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Qwest Communications on Wednesday announced a continued expansion of its VoIP service portfolio with IP Centrex Prime, an IP-enabled interface that helps enterprise business customers with multiple locations and mobile workforces migrate from traditional PBX connections to VoIP.