VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a system for transmitting voice calls over the internet, rather than a phone line.

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the descriptor for the technology used to carry digitised voice over an IP data network. VoIP requires two classes of protocols: a signaling protocol such as SIP, H.323 or MGCP ...

Here at Spring 2005 VON, I've been meeting with a lot of testing companies that help enterprises build and run their VoIP networks. To a person, they maintain that latency and dropped packets are two ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. As Internet ...

When you're on a VoIP call and your voice starts cutting out, or there’s that frustrating silence followed by jumbled speech, it’s easy to blame the app or your headset. But more often than not, the ...

Acme Packet today announced that VoIP, Inc., a leading provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications solutions for service providers, resellers and consumers worldwide, has deployed ...

Following up on the VoIP quality issues that we discussed in last week’s newsletter, this week we’d like to take a deeper dive into some of the possible problems that can make VoIP call quality ...

Researchers have devised a new scheme for hiding secret data within VoIP packets, making it possible to carry on legitimate voice conversations while stolen data piggybacks on the call undetected, ...

In Part 1 of this article, we laid out the throughput and delay problems that can occur in a wireless LAN (WLAN). Now, in Part 2, we'll further the discussion by looking at the impact of throughput ...

I've been a big fan of Acme Packet (APKT) for some time as the best way to invest in the accelerating transition to voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP). Acme shares have soared nearly 400 percent in ...