VoIP phones offer the familiar look of a conventional desk phone with similar functionality, but aren’t as plug-and-go. Like so much networking kit, setting up a VoIP phone can be a very frustrating ...

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 ...

Why Most Buyers Can Ignore the Question of SIP vs VoIP Your email has been sent Discover the differences between SIP vs VoIP and why those differences don’t really matter that much during the buying ...

From a carrier's perspective, the turn to packetized voice has been touted as providing voice calls “too cheap to meter,” irrespective of the distance between caller and call recipient. The advent of ...

The age of voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) is here, bringing together telephony and data communications to provide packetized voice and fax data streamed over low-cost Internet links. The ...

In Part 1 of our SIP primer, I covered the SIP foundation layers starting from the message structure and ending with the SIP transactions. We saw how phone registrations and proxies could work using ...

This article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of SD&I magazine. The “network-everywhere” methodology has infiltrated our lives and most of us are attempting to negotiate a network connection ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), with its promise of serving as a single global signaling standard, has mushroomed in importance for networking in the past year. But it may be years from adoption ...