In the world of VOIP and IP Telephony/IPT, there is a turn in the tide. Do you see it, hear it, feel it? It is the turn of the industry from VOIP being a casual “look” to an essential component of the ...

A generation gap is forming in telecommunications. Legacy telecom equipment uses time division multiplexing (TDM) to carry voice traffic on the backplane, while new communications technology uses ...

Before kissing TDM voice goodbye, make sure sellers keep their pricing and performance promises, and that you don't put your network or its economics at risk. Here's how. SIP trunking (VoIP based on ...

Since data traffic first showed signs of eclipsing voice in the late 1980s, telecom service providers have considered assassinating time-division multiplexing in broad daylight or gently euthanizing ...

TDM did itself proud over the years, but VoIP is riding the wave of converged networks and delivering management, application and other benefits. TDM isn’t dead yet as the backbone of corporate phone ...

Cisco is investing $10 billion over 5 years into its service provider business, a sum that is close to the five-year R&D budgets of telecom-only giants like Lucent and Nortel. Key areas for that ...