Many of our larger clients were sold a ShoreTel VoIP system from a local phone vendor. This particular vendor did not put the phones on their own VLAN nor did they implement any QoS of any kind. Many ...

We’re at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public’s enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the ...

This is my first test of a VoIP phone roaming away from home. <BR><BR>I took a VoIP phone home. At the office we have an Asterisk-type PBX and VoIP phones on a separate physical network from the staff ...

There are four key steps to deploying QoS for VoIP, and if you don’t follow them all, your VoIP implementation will not live up to its full potential. There’s a lot more to implementing QoS than just ...

VoIP QoS matters because it can be the difference between making a good impression on a potential customer or employee candidate. As the saying goes, people understand and buy-in to what they know—and ...

In the new converged network world, achieving true quality of service is our goal. THINK BACK TO when you were in third grade and class was dismissed for recess. Would the teacher tolerate a mad ...

Data networking folks tend to think of voice/data convergence as simply commingling one more application with others on the data network. So what’s the big deal? Together with our colleague John ...

Networking in the home is significantly different than networking in the enterprise or inside the service provider infrastructure. Likewise, ensuring quality of service (QoS) on a home network ...

Telepresence is an interactive real-time application, which means it is delay sensitive, loss sensitive and jitter sensitive. This sounds familiar: it is just like VoIP, with the one difference being ...

In the context of IP networks, the phrase “quality of service” (QoS) has a specific meaning, describing the quality of the network with regard to the following: These are all particularly important ...