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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cliche “everything is relative” is certainly accurate when used to sum up the essence of QoS schemes. After all, our industry’s quest for QoS is all about determining how to balance the demands of ...

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 ...

JA: Prior to joining the BroadSoft fold, Packet Island was a small, but highly focused company that addressed some important challenges around the delivery of IP communications in a converged network ...

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 ...

With 802.11 adoption starting to soar, designers must begin the eventual step in the WLAN design process. So far, the sector has proven that it can effectively handle data services. Now, they must ...

The goal of network QoS is to ensure that your most critical network traffic gets to where it needs to go with the least amount of delay (or latency in network-speak). More specifically, you can ...

VoIP services are rapidly gaining popularity in Australia and are increasing being promoted as a substitute for the standard telephone service, but much progress will need to be made before they can ...

Most organisations have quality of service (QoS) configured to support their VoIP traffic by now. In many cases, these configurations have been in place for a long time and are based on QoS strategies ...