Dec. 11 -- A computer technology called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is helping to pave the way to cheaper telephone calls — and possibly bypassing the need for service from the local ...

VoIP jitter, usually referred to as network jitter, is the time delay experienced by VoIP phone users between signal transmission and signal reception over a data network. During VoIP voice and ...

Calls can easily go to and from landlines as well, but this process involves the additional step of using a PSTN (public switched telephone network) to connect. Since hosted VoIP requires a stable ...

The TSP is the communications heart of U.S. plans for emergency preparedness, mandated by law and implemented on the public switched telephone network . . . and we don’t know for sure that VoIP ...

The digital signal is then compressed using what’s known as a ‘codec’ and broken into a series of ‘data packets’ that are transferred across the Internet Protocol (IP) network.

Many VoIP service providers use data centers to ensure reliability. Packet switching works via the computer sending the data breaking up the content into packets. Each packet has an address that tells ...

How to Optimize Your VoIP Network Before the Next Call Your email has been sent If calls aren’t crystal clear, it causes immediate problems. Here’s how to optimize your VoIP network and ensure ...

which is building a network of 3,600 IP phones from Nortel, along new router, switch and security products from the vendor. The issues of standards and interoperability were not a concern with a ...

While you can still make a phone call from your home, the tech underpinning the modern phone network looks different from what Alexander Graham Bell pioneered in 1876. Today, many types of business ...