Better Optical Technology Set to Make Internet Telephony Better (Continued)

Continued from the last post…. Better optics through advances in technology is promising a lot of improvement in terms of speeds for the actual speed data travels through fiber optics is fast but down line it still uses copper based technology which has lower capacity and thus less efficiency. Replacing current copper-based hardware may be [...]

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Better Optical Technology Set to Make Internet Telephony Better

There was a time when fiber channels were considered to be the fastest way to connect computers to the internet and beyond. But with today’s billions of computer users who all want the fastest internet access it may simply be not enough. The answer used to be to increase bandwidth that today is proving to [...]

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VoIP Headed to the Clouds

As demand increases for cloud based VoIP systems there seems to be no stopping the next step in computing even with major setbacks. Security, reliability and many other concerns have been asked about VoIP should it be taken to the clouds yet most of the worlds web giants have embraced cloud computing. Time and time [...]

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Voip Gateways De-Mystified (Part 1)

Voip Gateways are an essential part of a Voip network, and they are simply appliances that convert all the voice and fax calls into digital packets that can then be transmitted in between the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and an IP network. Simply put, it is an interpreter that works so fast you [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip – DoS (Part 2)

The first form of attack is Dos which is short for Denial of Service which has the ability to overwhelm existing hardware leaving your system bogged down without any available link towards the outside world. This has occurred many times with the internet itself, when several Trojans and bot-nets have flooded servers and routers causing [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip (Part 1)

There are 5 identified threats for VoIP technology that have been determined and verified by the IEEE and many industry experts for 2008. DoS Attacks, VoIP Eavesdropping, Microsoft Office Communications Service (MOCS), Vishing (phishing for VoIP) and VoIP attacks against Service providers. As we see, there are no shortages of problems with regards to security [...]

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VoIP Under threat (Part 2)

Problems can arise from recordings of VoIP calls which can be made into common audio formats then analyzed later for vital information leading to identity theft and fraud.As experts watched companies shift from the standard telephone to Voip, they noticed something very unusual, no reports of compromised systems. That strikes them as very peculiar for [...]

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VoIP Under threat (Part 1)

Voip has revolutionized the way businesses and customers interact saving in phone bills and using their computers connected through the internet for communications uses. It’s fast and easy, especially if the calls are for support which allows the actual scenario to be read out by the user to the support people for assistance. Like all [...]

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Companies Still Baffled at Unified Communications

The advantages of VoIP have been known to many for a long time yet not that many companies are opting to adopt the technology for their own use, why? Reliable old PBX boxes, these were the predecessors of the Voip Gateways that companies simply cannot do without. It has been proven reliable and has been [...]

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Jajah iPhone WiFi-Voip (Part 2)

Jajah has already been offering the service for web based calls that were not only cheaper but even better than traditional wireless services they have this ability for the company has its own international backbone which they use for signal transmission as opposed to the approach of mobile providers who opt to turn lo local [...]

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