BOSTON – Reduced telecom costs, easier network administration and the promise of less expensive, more responsive disaster-recovery operations convinced Fidelity Investments it could wean itself from ...

Proponents of IP Centrex say the services will save money reduce costs and ease complexity. Detractors will tell you IP Centrex services aren’t fully baked yet and service providers haven’t really ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Atlanta-based BellSouth, one of the United States four ...

Lumos Networks (NASDAQ: LMOS), a leading provider of fiber-based products across the Mid-Atlantic region, today introduced Business Communicator , an exciting addition to the IP Centrex family of ...

The IP Centrex offering makes particular sense to nationwide chain stores that see a lot of intra-store traffic. Ann Taylor is such a customer, currently ramping up from 20 to 40 of its stores for the ...

I never thought I would hear IP and Centrex used in the same sentence, much less in the same phrase to describe a service. I'm willing to bet that you didn't either, at least not until the last year ...

IP Centrex/Hosted PBX is one of the emerging services/technologies that allow businesses to collapse their voice and data traffic onto a single network. It is also one of the IP services that will ...

Centrex is an acronym for Central Office Exchange, a technology-based solution that provides telephone services across a public network to individuals and companies. However, the service-based ...

SINGAPORE: IP (Internet Protocol) Centrex has the capacity to evolve into a popular IP-hosted telephony service in Asia Pacific, as developed markets are leading the way with increasing adoption. Many ...

"Can Centrex survive or perhaps even thrive in the era of convergence?" Industry observer Jay Brandstadter thinks it can, but maybe not in the form you've known it: "For those considering IP telephony ...

A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP ...