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  • A look at the skills telecom, IT departments need when transitioning to SIP trunking

    Posted March 28, 2011 - 9:19 pm

    While there is still definitely a place for telecom specialists in the enterprises that use SIP trunks, they'll have to learn some additional skills if they want to make the transition from TDM to SIP successfully.

  • Republican National Convention venue gets network makeover

    Posted August 13, 2008 - 5:18 pm

    What does it take to convert a hockey arena into a site that can handle the technology demands of the Republican National Convention? Roughly 25 miles of cabling, for starters.

  • What are critical issues with VoIP service?

    Posted July 31, 2008 - 4:07 pm

    VoIP services are rapidly becoming the bread and butter of enterprise voice networks, as roughly 72% of all enterprise voice lines shipped by vendors in 2007 were IP-capable. Now that companies are definitively moving away from the traditional Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) voice networks and into Session Initiation Protocol-based (SIP) VoIP networks, we examine the VoIP industry's most pressing issues, including SIP interoperability, TDM-to-SIP transition services and VoIP security issues.

  • Broadband innovations: Fiber optics reaches the tipi

    Posted July 24, 2008 - 5:06 pm

    Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the indigenous Ktunaxa people of British Columbia had a thriving culture going back 10,000 years. Following more than a century of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of the Canadian government, however, the Ktunaxa's language and culture have been all but eradicated. Now, innovative uses of cutting-edge broadband and digital recordings of tribal elders are enabling younger members to hear the sounds of the language, giving Ktunaxa leaders hope for its future.
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