NTL Telewest is developing a voice-over-IP residential telephone service and has appointed telecoms giant Ericsson to help roll it out. A five year agreement has been signed between the two parties.

Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched ...

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In addition to this, you can even create ...

Clarent last week announced two products that could help put bundled IP voice and data offerings on service providers’ menus. The voice-over-IP equipment firm will introduce a new softswitch and ...

Network gear component makers are producing new chips and switch fabric technologies that could make products such as IP telephones and Gigabit LAN switches faster and less expensive. Texas ...

A new handset for making voice over IP calls that connects to a PC over USB. You can make phone calls for free with the Taichi III, but only to other people also using VICQ Planet, which apparently is ...

Fully global, end-to-end voice over IP (VoIP) is not yet practical for all organizations. But intra-office VoIP hardware can be deployed in data routers and managed with the same tools used to ...

What is it about voice over IP that creates such passionate dogmatism? Far too much of what passes for debate about the future of voice over IP is dominated by assertions of perfect foreknowledge.

Especially for green-field sites and existing offices that are undergoing massive IT overhauls, VoIP offers single-wire simplicity and a one-stop management solution for all voice and data traffic.