Looks like we may need to upgrade our phone system and handsets to use VoIP equipment. Some basic questions re: QoS and VLANs because I've never had to resort to either before.<BR><BR>I have to ...

This is my first test of a VoIP phone roaming away from home. <BR><BR>I took a VoIP phone home. At the office we have an Asterisk-type PBX and VoIP phones on a separate physical network from the staff ...

Over the last few years I have discussed the ins and outs of VoIP. The reason should be obvious to everyone except those just waking up from a deep, three-year sleep: IP is being used more and more to ...

In the new converged network world, achieving true quality of service is our goal. THINK BACK TO when you were in third grade and class was dismissed for recess. Would the teacher tolerate a mad ...

There are four key steps to deploying QoS for VoIP, and if you don’t follow them all, your VoIP implementation will not live up to its full potential. There’s a lot more to implementing QoS than just ...

If one type of application on a network is dramatically different from the others and requires far more bandwidth, however, problems can occur. The most common examples involve Voice-over Internet ...

In the context of IP networks, the phrase “quality of service” (QoS) has a specific meaning, describing the quality of the network with regard to the following: These are all particularly important ...

JA: Prior to joining the BroadSoft fold, Packet Island was a small, but highly focused company that addressed some important challenges around the delivery of IP communications in a converged network ...

To ensure that an IP packet makes it to its destination on time, the network and its equipment have to be configured properly. This is one part of Quality of Service (QoS), in which each IP packet ...

Network congestion has compelled organizations to deploy traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS) appliances just before the WAN router to control outbound traffic. But in today’s complex ...

As a voice manager, you have probably heard the term Quality of Service (QoS) and probably have a good idea that it's a set of technologies whose goal, as far as you're concerned, is protecting voice ...