Archived Business VoIP News

Monday, October 29th

• A Voice From Redmond Means Opportunity For The Channel

  Whether you like the company or not, Microsoft's big-splash entrance into the unified communications market earlier this month is one of the most significant launches the channel has seen in years. ...

Friday, October 26th

• VoIP is Strategic, Not Just Tactical

  Many companies decide to purchase a VoIP solution as a tactical move—a way to save some money or just have the latest and best technology. Best-in-class firms, though, tend to approach VoIP as more of a strategic move—a long-term investment made with a lot of thought into how the capabilities of IP telephony can change and improve business processes. ...

Monday, October 22nd

• Will Microsoft Unified Communications kick enterprise VoIP, IM into high gear?

  On our sister site TechRepublic, Jason Hiner offers his view that the just-released Microsoft Unified Communications Server may convince heretofore skittish enterprise users to embrace VoIP and instant messaging....

Sunday, October 21st

• VoIP Inc.’s VoiceOne Traffic Surges 40% in 30 Days

  Orlando, Florida-based Voice over IP wholesaler, VoIP Inc., experienced a 40% surge in network usage between September 15 and October 15, marking the largest increase in traffic since the company’s inception....

Friday, October 19th

• Vocalocity to Grow VoIP Offering with $8 Million in Funding

  Vocalocity, hosted VoIP provider for businesses with 5-20 users, has won $8 million in Series A financing, which the company will use to expand its growing businesses, which has been experiencing substantial growth as more and more business are turning to IP-based communications solutions.
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Thursday, October 18th

• Dell Jumps Into VoIP With Microsoft, Nortel

  Dell is maneuvering to snag its piece of the VoIP pie by selling unified communications products from Microsoft and Nortel Networks. ...

Tuesday, October 16th

• Gates Launches Microsoft VoIP Portfolio, Predicts Demise of PBX

  After much hype and anticipation, Microsoft Tuesday staked its claim to the VoIP market as Chairman Bill Gates launched the vendor's unified communications portfolio. ...

Friday, October 12th

• Today's Businesses Need More Than VoIP to be competitive

  VoIP has been a hot commodity among large-scale companies with experienced IT organizations for over a decade; but few groups outside of the IT community fully understood the concept, knowing only that it was supposed to save them money....

Thursday, October 11th

• Relationship between Business and VoIP services

  VoIP telephony service has undoubtedly come as an upgraded mode of communication and has gradually begun to change the entire communication structure of businesses and even residentials. It offers clear advantages over the traditional public switch telephony network or PBX systems. Especially for corporates, VoIP has come as a breath of fresh air and provides them with a single solution for all their communication needs. ...

Monday, October 8th

• Six burning VoIP questions

  VoIP is hot. The Gartner Group predicts that by 2008, VoIP-enabled systems will account for some 97% of all systems sold. But all that heat can raise some issues. We resolve to answer some of the more pressing questions you might be facing. ...

Friday, October 5th

• Birmingham trust signs up to VoIP

  The Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust has signed a contract with BT to host its IP telephony services....

Wednesday, October 3rd

• VoIP will make money, not save it

  There are two problems with the hype around IP telephony....

Tuesday, October 2nd

• Tracking VoIP's ROI Goes Beyond Simple Math

  VoIP has never been a slam-dunk technology; it was a particularly tough sell when the benefits of deploying the technology amounted to cheaper long-distance calls at the cost of ripping out a PBX infrastructure that worked just fine. In these days of converged networks, VoIP offers an enterprise advantages beyond lowering toll charges. Nevertheless, one of the major barriers to implementing VoIP remains for many network managers: justifying the costs. According to BT INS Inc.'s Voice over IP 2007 Industry Survey, the biggest hurdle for 32 percent of respondents is being able to show that a VoIP solution will provide a positive ROI (return on investment), a challenge that has grown since 2005. Furthermore, 46 percent of respondents cited justifying the cost to upper management as a top obstacle....

• Microsoft announces VoIP phone pricing for SMBs

  Today, Microsoft released pricing for its SMB Response Point software bundled with twenty-phone systems from Quanta and D-Link. These will cost less than $5,500, the company said. A third phone vendor, Aastra Technologies, is planning on releasing Response Point systems in 2008. A complete package that includes a base unit with built-in analog telephone adapter (ATA) and secure gateway, plus four phones, will cost about $2,500, Microsoft said. Additional phones will be available for $159 each. ...

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/mobile_voip/

  Mobile VoIP services have yet to make their mark on the telecoms market, despite the availability of suitable technology....

Monday, October 1st

• Enterprises to Drive Hosted VoIP Adoption, Study Says

  IBM and its reseller partners in the System i market are putting a lot of energy into pushing Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony as a means of bolstering the product line and making it more relevant in the modern data center. Convergence of computing and telecommunications is happening on a lot of fronts, and this makes a certain amount of sense. But it is not necessarily a foregone conclusion that companies will deploy their VoIP internally....