Avaya is the latest maker of Internet phone equipment that believes it can succeed where Yahoo and Microsoft have struggled: selling instant messaging that's good enough for the business world. The ...

Update: We're in the last throes of winter break 2019, which means most Ars' home office phones can stay dormant for a few more days. As such, we've been resurfacing a few classics from the ...

Although this might be a practical way of running the examples if the reader has a couple of computers connected to a switch at home, it may be cumbersome to run it in an Internet environment, given ...

Back in the days of wireline telephony, when all phone calls went over the Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN), businesses would purchase “trunks” -dedicated lines or a bundle of circuits – from ...

A perfect marriageRich Garboski voiceover Internet protocol (VOIP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Internet VOIP technology and the mortgage industry Every so often, a new technology arrives on ...

We are becoming less and less dependent on mobile networks. You can get a data signal almost everywhere that you can get a mobile signal and most of us are around WiFi most of the time anyway.