Threat analysts have uncovered a large-scale campaign targeting Elastix VoIP telephony servers with more than 500,000 malware samples over a period of three months. Elastix is a server software for ...

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a method of sending audio voice signals -- or, more specifically, telephone signals -- as data packets over the Internet. By taking advantage of the different ...

When a construction crew inadvertently cut through fiber-optic cables in St. Louis Park, Minn., last summer, things could have been catastrophic. With the city’s public safety answering points (PSAPs) ...

Most of us have experienced telephone calls with disturbing echoes on the line. Low echo volumes together with discernible delay can make a line completely unusable, with the call being terminated ...

Recovering from a false start in the mid-'90s, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has re-emerged as a viable contender for telephony applications. Transmitting time-critical voice traffic over the ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a U.S ...

Jan. 6, 2022, is a date that CIOs and other IT leaders need to circle on their calendars. This is the deadline by which non-fixed phone lines will need to comply with the upcoming RAY BAUM's Act ...

Appliances from Allworx, Critical Links, Fonality, Microsoft, and Sutus all combine sophisticated features and low cost; they differ in breadth and complexity, with Fonality’s Asterisk-based PBXtra ...

Voice-over-IP technology has rolled out to one-fifth of all U.S. business, and adoption will continue to grow at a robust rate, according to research firm In-Stat. In-Stat measured VoIP adoption by ...

The complexity of managing and maintaining voice-over-IP systems is posing more problems than many IT managers initially expected, spurring demand for so-called Day 2 support services, users and ...