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Latest News

  • Orange and T Mobile cleared to merge

    It provides mobile telephony services in the UK and, to a lesser extent, broadband internet access services on a fixed network. It provides mobile telephony services in the UK. The European Commission has given a conditional go-ahead for the…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Telecommunications • Telecom • Sharing • Owned • Orange • Commission

  • Home fuel cells to generate green energy

    Just as cell phones circumvented landlines to proliferate telephony, Bloom Energy will enable the adoption of distributed power as a smarter, localised energy source.Sridhar noted that 20 corporate big hitters, including FedEx, Wal-Mart, Staples…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Headquarters • Energy • Enable • Electricity • Cell • Boxes

  • Voice calls on LTE phones still a long way off

    One of the solutions to that problem got a boost Monday, though, with more operators and vendors lending it their support.Support for One Voice, an initiative to standardise telephony over LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks, has increased from 12…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Subscribers • Roaming • Initiative • Carried • Boost • Appearing

  • Cisco builds VoIP app for iPhone

    It will be part of the Web 2.0 IP Telephony Widget.Philonenko spoke to reporters in Boston and other cities via videoconference and was joined by Pat Scheckel, vice president of converged infrastructure solutions for CDW, which resells computers…
    04 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Mobile • Unified Communications • Mobility • App

  • New GSM encryption cracked

    Its security will become one of the most important practical issues in cryptography," the researchers said.According to Dunkleman, Kasumi was supposed to have been stronger than the current A5/1 encryption standard that is used to protect GSM…
    15 January 2010
    Tags: Flaws • Gsm • Researchers • Algorithm • Association • Dualcore

  • BT And Cisco team up on global cloud service

    The companies claim that the new service, based on BT's Onevoice UCC portfolio, will allow businesses to reduce upfront investment costs whilst accelerating the adoption of UC on a global scale.According to the company, the hosted IP telephony…
    14 December 2009
    Tags: Hosted • Cloud • Unified • Bt • Telephony • Capital

Latest Features

  • Managing networks is still about problem solving

    The Enterasys switches now support an IT infrastructure that includes the campus wireless access points, as well as VoIP telephony and streaming video.The age of virtualisation now upon IT is also prompting IT managers to look at new ways to do…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Records • Perspective • Hosting • Firewalls • Faced • Automated

  • Cisco ready to take on data centres

    Target trial customers include those in the supply chain and manufacturing verticals, O'Sullivan says.The system will let users build hybrid premises/on demand intercompany collaboration networks, which combine the capabilities of Cisco's Unified…
    15 December 2008
    Tags: Internally • Vm • Data Centres • Blade Servers • California • Vice President

  • Skype wants to do business

    But for many of the SMBs looking to get into IP telephony, videoconferencing and unified comms in general, Skype certainly seems an attractive option. The free-VoIP giant recasts itself as "unified communications made simple" - but how much is it…
    18 July 2008
    Tags: Language • Unified • Skype • Bryan Betts • Water • Chat

  • Tracking the truth of unified communications

    You could think of the very first fax machines, for example, or email, or even TiVO.The other issue, he notes, is that although you can install unified comms alongside a legacy PBX, in reality it tends to go hand in hand with a switch to IP…
    14 July 2008
    Tags: Unified • Telephony • Pbx • Bryan Betts • Methods • Instant Messaging

  • The challenges of in-building wireless coverage

    Instead, a specific technology might be allocated a few MHz here and a few MHz there, with the specific frequencies varying from country to country.As an example, Lewing highlights the band planning - or lack of it - for US cellular telephony.
    08 July 2008
    Tags: Coverage • Cellular • Country • Buildings • Cooling • Fire

  • Audio processing is on the move

    Mobile telephony and Bluetooth headsets have given new urgency to research into auditory processing. Audio processing is on the move Bryan Betts, Techworld Mobile telephony and Bluetooth headsets have given new urgency to research into auditory…
    06 June 2008
    Tags: Audio • Bluetooth • Techniques • Speech • Recognition • Sounds

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How-Tos

  • How to manage traffic on your home network

    If you have a slow uplink speed (e.g.less than 512Kbit/sec.enabling Dynamic Fragmentation configures the router to break up large packets into smaller ones for smoother performance.With a router that uses Ubicom's StreamEngine (see the router's…
    01 December 2009
    Tags: Wish • Band • Bar • Manufacturer • Dropped • Streams

  • Case Study: Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi

    Howe doesn't think we should read anything too much into this: it's HP's professional services division in fact, which has a free hand on technology to use.The network will be used for three classic health service applications: Vocera active…
    19 May 2008
    Tags: Controllers • Location • Centralised • Buildings • Locations • London

  • Case Study: A tailor-made VoIP system

    When bespoke men's tailor Gieves and Hawkes moved its 25 UK outlets over to IP telephony, it also converged not two but three services onto a single new MPLS connection. When bespoke men's tailor Gieves and Hawkes moved its 25 UK outlets over to IP…
    03 April 2008
    Tags: Hosted • Offices • Telephony • Bryan Betts • Suppliers • Row

  • Case Study: College converges fixed and mobile phones

    Voice on IP systems are widely used, and wireless LANs are commonplace, but few companies have extended telephony onto their wireless LAN yet, even though this would allow staff to work more flexibly within the campus, using a mobile handset as…
    23 January 2008
    Tags: Peter Judge • Trapeze • Students • Gsm • Degree • Campus

  • Case Study: Eurodata unifies its comms

    The choice of suppliers - Microsoft for the software and Mitel for the phones and other IP telephony hardware - was pretty much governed by Eurodata's existing partnerships with those companies.However, Lekerman claims that those relationships…
    15 January 2008
    Tags: Unified • Telephony • Bryan Betts • Contact • Person • Context

  • Case Study: Collaboration demands WAN optimisation

    The company is rolling out IP (Internet Protocol) telephony across its offices, which adds new traffic to its data network. Storing large project files separately in its 20 offices worked fine for environmental engineering firm GEI Consultants…
    27 November 2007
    Tags: Forrester • Active Directory • Consolidation • Stephen Lawson • Optimisation • Data Centre

Reviews

  • Truphone service

    Unlike some of the other internet telephony services we've reviewed, Truphone is a VoIP service specifically for use on mobile phones. Truphone offers an app that can be downloaded on to the T-Mobile G1, Apple iPhone or iPod touch, and a number of…
    19 March 2009
    Tags: Handsets • Nokia • Country • Blackberry • International • Mobiles

  • AVM Fritz!box Fon WLAN 7270 review

    box Fon WLAN 7270 is also dead set on saving you money, a feat it achieves by means of its many advanced telephony features. Like many high-end routers the AVM Fritz! box Fon WLAN 7270 supports ADSL and ADSL2+ to match the fastest ADSL broadband…
    12 January 2009
    Tags: Coverage • Handsets • Wlan • Telephone • Setup • High End

  • TerraTec iQuader review

    Useful for basic demos rather than studio recording, the TerraTec iQuader is a good, if expensive, mic for hands-free telephony. Terratec's iQuader uses an interesting mic technology that can allow inexperienced users to get high-quality results…
    27 June 2008
    Tags: Surface • Collect • Recording • Sounds • Microphone • High Quality

  • 4ipnet MSG100 wireless office controller

    So you define the mode of operation (NAT or plain routing), DHCP range (if required), authentication options (there's a good range of support, including a local database, LDAP and RADIUS; an interesting inclusion in this screen is SIP, as it's not…
    14 May 2008
    Tags: Zone • Wired • Access Control • Inexpensive • Pop • David Cartwright

  • Asus Eee Linux laptop

    The webcam and internal microphone are weak.Going again by the 80/20 rule (repeat: 80 percent of the time you use only 20 percent of the machine's capabilities), things like the Eee's built-in webcam and internal microphone - the latter of which…
    10 January 2008
    Tags: Owned • Battery Life • Buyers • Solid State • Openoffice • Typing

  • SpectraLink NetLink e340 wireless handset

    Collectively, these units show that Polycom is serious about VoIP and SIP telephony. Wi-Fi VoIP phones generally disappoint, but the SpectraLink e340 comes close to hitting the mark. It has good battery life, reasonably clear audio, and it even…
    16 August 2007
    Tags: Qos • Handset • Sip • Ip Addresses • Ip Address • Lcd

White Papers

  • How Should an Enterprise Move Toward Unified Communications?

    This takes Unified Communications to the next level in terms of IP voice and video telephony; audio, web and video conferencing; unified messaging of voicemail, email, and fax; instant messaging and more.
    30 June 2009
    Tags: Messaging • Embedded • Accelerate • Unified Communications

  • Maximizing Unified Communications for Your Business

    These applications include voice and video telephony, conferencing, collaboration, voice and video mail, instant messaging, email, calendaring and contacts. This whitepaper looks at the hallmarks and business benefits of Unified Communications, and…
    30 June 2009
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Embedded • Instant Messaging • Business Processes • Unified Communications

  • An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

    An open approach to IP telephony applications, running alongside your TDM and IP PBXs, has the power to change how your business communicates. Companies choose servers, networking equipment, and applications independently of one another, knowing…
    06 August 2007
    Tags: Unified • Telephony • Pbx • Complexity • Remotely • Converged

  • An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

    An open approach to IP telephony applications, running alongside your TDM and IP PBXs, has the power to change how your business communicates. These teams have an opportunity to now bring this strength into play on the telephony side.
    10 July 2007
    Tags: Architectures • Telephony • Dedicated • Interfaces • Leverage • Pbx

  • Ensuring IP Telephony Performance Through Remote Monitoring

    The advantages of IP Telephony are well-known, among them network consolidation, centralized voice administration, longdistance toll savings and unified applications. If your company is one of the growing number of IP Telephony adopters, it is also…
    29 May 2007
    Tags: Platforms • Availability • Monitoring • Ip Telephony • Converged

  • Laying The Groundwork For IP Telephony

    Youve studied the promising ROIs for IP Telephony and researched vendor solutions that appear to fit your companys needs. The success of a new IP Telephony implementation depends on the capability of its existing network components.
    29 May 2007
    Tags: Assessment • Carry • Ip Telephony • Studied • Network Engineer

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