Adam Stone

Phone, presence, e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing: These are the familiar facets of unified communications. Now add to this roster another element—typically overlooked but no less significant: push-to-talk (PTT) radios. Seattle-based Twisted Pair Solutions says the latest iteration of its software, WAVE 4.0, will allow businesses to incorporate PTT into a UC scenario. Twisted Pair, which […]

Any time we see online user reviews that include phrases like “thunder god,” we are at once both skeptical and curious. Skeptical because, let’s face it, is anything really that good? And curious because, well, what if it is? FileZilla Screenshot FileZilla (link goes to download page) may very well have earned the title. The […]

Sarasota, Fla.-based development company xG Technology could probably license out its technology tomorrow and leave it at that. But the company has bigger plans. The company’s Flash Signal technology handles the transmission, reception, modulation, and encoding of data. The company says it uses less power than existing solutions, thus giving mobile devices longer batter life. […]

Does the world really need another softphone? We shall soon see. Basis AudioNet, based in Hamburg, Germany and Philadelphia, recently announced the release of a new IP communications soft client that, like many other softphones on the market, combines IP telephony with instant messaging, and video telephony services in a single, standalone client application. But […]

Maybe you can’t always stop the attack, but knowing where to look for it is a good beginning. Sipera VIPER Lab has released its predictions for the Top Five VoIP Threats in 2008. The lab is operated by Sipera Systems, a VoIP/UC security solutions provider. A common theme among the top threats is openness and […]

A galaxy of hardware and software manufacturers have set their eye on the potentially huge market for voice over Wi-Fi (aka voice over wireless LAN and VoFi) in the business sector. Everybody wants to walk that road, but no one can go it alone. So says ABI Research in its new study, The Voice Over […]

A recent announcement by PAETEC Holding Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent may point toward a new generation of solutions intended to safeguard VoIP performance against calamity, whether it be a simple power outages or a catastrophic hurricane. The Geographic Redundancy solution promises to keep traffic ever on the move, by placing all switching capability in two physically […]

As Mobile VoIP grows in the coming years, users will get on board via 3G networks provided by cellular handsets rather than over Wi-Fi. That’s the word from research firm Disruptive Analysis, which predicts 3G VoIP will draw more than 250 million users by 2021, as compared to less than 100 million voice users on […]

As the world moves toward unified communications, enterprise IT/telecom managers soon will have to choose between the grandiose vision of Microsoftand the best-of-breed solutions offered by a range of voice and data networking vendors. Or will they? Analysts see an either/or scenario developing between the two competing approaches to UC, which brings voice together with […]

As IP telephony gains acceptance in the SMB market, it’s not likely to be the products of mainstream IP PBX vendors that lead the change. Open source software, some say, may be the mechanism whereby IP telephony vendors bring affordable, reliable, and innovative products into the largely untapped—and highly cost-conscious—small-business arena. So says Krithi Rao, […]