Access the OCS Forum animated tutorial on Instant Messaging Exposed.

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of a new application Call Data Record – an ultimate diagnostic tool for telecom networks.

With the explosive growth of data-based applications this year, it’s no wonder more and more carriers and phone companies are investing in equipment in order to migrate to all-IP based systems.

The creation of virtual phone lines between your PBX and the public network is accomplished by a new technology called SIP.(Session Initiation Protocol).The following article attempts to answer the question :-Is SIP a cost effective solution to ISDN?

The end of this year may reveal an increase of residential users nationwide disconnecting even more landlines. Businesses, especially SMBs are sure to move away from some but not all landlines by deploying cheaper SIP alternative services.

With the explosive growth of data-based applications this year, it’s no wonder more and more carriers and phone companies are investing in equipment in order to migrate to all-IP based systems. Industry experts believe that amongst the many advantages IP based systems can offer they also give non-RBOC carriers a competitive advantage

The real questions to be asked are not how wireless will be deployed, but how it will take advantage of the Internet to provide seamless ubiquity.

The ongoing demand by enterprises using unifed communications applications will spur network operators to boost their investment in Session Initiation Protocol, or “SIP” trunking technologies, a new report found.

The acquisition of Gizmo5 was not done solely because Skype was about to acquire them. It was done because Google needs to acquire SIP competence quickly so its Google Voice platform can be prevalent on all future devices, applications and within the mobile operator's network.

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of an enhanced portfolio of its Fax, Modem, and Voice Testing solutions. GL's s voice, fax, and modem testing portfolio of solutions has been enhanced with an inclusion of T1 E1 Call Capture and Analysis, 2 Wire voice data/recorder, and PacketScan™ applications.

The appetite for SIP is on the rise, but a number of factors could hamper adoption of the technology

HP is planning to acquire 3Com for $2.7B to bolster its converged infrastructure position. While our industry is starting a new IT wave of virtualization and cloud computing which promises to distribute applications and content to thin, virtual and mobile end-points over massively connected global networks, the reality is that most corporations will contain a mix of private and public/outsourced/cloud computing environments.

Join this Thursday's Webinar discussing SIP trunking as a cost-effective alternative to traditional PSTN connections; the challenges of integration and interoperability; and lessons learned from SIP-PSTN integration into environments such as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

Connecting to SIP trunks is more than a technology decision. Is SIP trunking right for you? Take a look at Sorell Slaymaker's session, "Implementing SIP Trunking."

As rumored, Google confirmed its purchase of VoIP firm Gizmo5, instantly adding Skype-like functionality — and an open source bent — to its Google Voice service.

Techtionary.com (http://www.techtionary.com), the leading provider of SIP & OCS telecommunications training announced today a new leading-edge leading “best practices SIP/VoIP” course called “SIP 2010 Planning Guide” – two-five day onsite training intensive designed exclusively for enterprise IT managers, corporate staff marketing, training business development, sales, channel managers, operations, engineering, support and other corporate managers for VoIP-SIP providers, carriers, manufacturers, and others gain new insights in the SIP-VoIP marketplace.

The fact that Skype and other providers who rely on SIP trunking technology must work with IP-PBXs that have been tested for interoperability with the service, is emerging as a significant market driver in some interesting ways, an analyst with an IT research firm told TMCnet in an interview.

What should you absolutely, positively, be sure to include on your budget for 2010? Here are a few key items and the rationale behind them.

SIP-based VoIP call recording provider, SIP Print has announced a new strategic financing partnership, which is now a new division of SIP Print.

In a keynote address delivered at VoiceCon San Francisco today, Avaya's Dr. Alan Baratz predicted dramatic changes in the business communications landscape as voice increasingly takes on the characteristics of today's modern data networks.

Access the tutorial that shows how a media gateway (gateway) uses LDAP-Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to access AD-Active Directory to route calls.

AT&T, Frost & Sullivan, and Network Equipment Technologies (NET) Offer Insight and Strategies for Supporting Today's Complex IP-Based Communications

Avaya Inc. has launched the Avaya Notification Solution (ANS), a new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based application that helps streamline communications for an urgent business or emergency situation.

Lately there have been a slew of interoperability announcements coming from the major IP PBX vendors -- especially Avaya and Toshiba -- a lot of them SIP Trunking interoperability announcements, but also some product interoperability announcements as well.

A Pensacola, Florida-based provider of Direct Inward Dialing or “DID” phone numbers to IP communications companies, recently announced a partnership with The SIP School, an online certification site for SIP and LAN/WAN technologies for VoIP.

GL Communications Inc. announced today the availability of Hand Held Portable Test Instruments.

Voice is representative of only a single example of what defines a “Session” in SIP. SIP handles multiple forms of communications. From quasi-realtime Instant Messaging to live video communications, all leveraging packet-based communications.

Although T-1 lines still lead as the most common trunking service, by 2010 SIP trunking (a direct connection from an organization's IP PBX to the Internet telephony service provider, bypassing the PSTN) will be the second most common trunking type, according to Infonetics Research.

Instead of using dedicated trunks between PBX's, you can share the bandwidth with your data services, making better use of the available capacity. With prioritization techniques, you can ensure that your voice traffic gets through the network in the appropriate time to maintain voice quality.

Lets look at some typical existing business comms deployments—and the best approach to Skype deployment in each case.