An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a ...

NTL Telewest is developing a voice-over-IP residential telephone service and has appointed telecoms giant Ericsson to help roll it out. A five year agreement has been signed between the two parties.

Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched ...

What is it about voice over IP that creates such passionate dogmatism? Far too much of what passes for debate about the future of voice over IP is dominated by assertions of perfect foreknowledge.

Network gear component makers are producing new chips and switch fabric technologies that could make products such as IP telephones and Gigabit LAN switches faster and less expensive. Texas ...

When officials in Orange County, Fla., installed a voice-over-IP phone system in 2003, they quickly achieved the goal of cutting telecommunications costs by as much as 30 percent. But after a series ...

A handful of voice over Internet providers will announce on Thursday that they are banding together to promote the use of Internet telephony. The group, called the Internet Voice Campaign, is a part ...

Hey, there’s a new phone, the N900iL, that does something awesome — it is the first wireless handset that can also make calls as a wireless IP phone. I wonder if it runs on NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA network?

LAS VEGAS — At the Networld+Interop conference here, Nortel Networks Corp. yesterday announced its strategy to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GE) over optical fiber to simplify network management and to ...

We reported on this a couple of weeks ago, and it looks like Cisco’s new WiFi phone, the 7290, is finally out. Although it’s aimed at companies with voice over IP phone systems and meant to be used on ...