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What Makes Some IP Phones Better Than Others?

IT Toolbox

As time passes and cloud-based voice over IP (VoIP)/unified communications (UC) services continue to grow, IP phones have become easier to use, more application friendly, and more cost-effective. Vendors and resellers that sell IP phones may overuse this cliché, but it’s still a true statement.

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How Innovation Drives Collaboration

IT Toolbox

During this series , I’m exploring five distinct drivers for collaboration, and by extension Unified Communications. Whether your business is currently using VoIP or legacy telephony, it’s largely a standalone application, but today voice can be so much more. When the discussion shifts to

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Understanding The Challenges Telco's Have Faced During COVID-19

Spearline Testing

’ Outbound testing increased, as did reliance and on and the usage of VoIP technologies, according to Hayes. “With millions of people working from home, there became a noticeable increase in the percentage of audio traffic that moved to VoIP as most of the UC companies used adaptive codes in their products.”

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Hyper-segmentation – How to Avoid Cyber Disasters

CTOvision

After spinning off from Lucent Technologies and AT&T, Avaya became the experts in SIP, Internet telephony, unified communications and collaboration (UCC) and all thing VOIP. Each endpoint has its own fully isolated path to a specific application on a server. Avaya is the company that is synonymous with telephony.

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Will cognitive networks enable better conversations in the future?

Spearline Testing

The telecoms industry has undergone a fundamental transformation with the decline of traditional landlines and the rapid evolution of technologies such as smart devices, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and cloud computing. Connectivity is now a basic need.

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Talk to me: UC, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS

Spearline Testing

We have experienced a transition from plain-old-telephone-systems (POTS) to voice over IP (VoIP), and now that the journey is largely complete we can see that voice is simply an application in the IP world. UC is not necessarily a single product, it can be a set of products unified via a consistent user interface and user experience.