What draws many people to make the switch from their normal phone system to Asterisk? What are the benefits and the upsides of using Asterisk? Will it save you additional costs?

The invention of the telephone has a long intriguing and contested history. There exists great dispute over who deserves credit as the first inventor of the telephone.

Private Branch Exchange, switches calls between VoIP users on local lines, while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines.

Scalable, Reliable, Secure are generally not terms that are considered when talking about todays SME's and their connectivity. But these are all issues that most companies face as reliance on Internet communicates increase.

There are a lot of questions to be asked about VoIP, the new technology of future. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and it represents a cost-effective way of placing calls over the Internet. The beauty of VoIP lies in the fact that it combines both voice and data communications on a single network.

What you commonly know as a phone shop, a telecenter or a call shop can now become more cost-effective and more advantageous by means of VoIP enabled features. In fact, there are many parts of the world where the phenomenon has already been put into practice and what resulted was a beneficial call shop market strategy.

SIP, Session Internet Protocol, is a signal protocol meant to create, modify or terminate sessions with one or more applicants. These sessions are mainly Internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences. SIP was accepted as a 3GPP signaling protocol and permanent element of the IMS architecture in November 2000. SIP is widely used as a signaling protocol for Voice over IP, with H.323 and others.

Using the Internet to make cheap long-distance phone calls or to send data is one of the most exciting technological advances of recent times. VoIP solutions have revolutionized the world of telecommunication and the number of people who decide to replace their regular landlines with broadband phones is constantly on the increase. As any Internet telephony service provider can state, the main advantage of the VoIP technology is its cost-effectiveness.

In the dazzling era of modern technology, the telecommunications sector is at the top of the list. More and more users want to benefit from sophisticated media services and that is why VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become one of the latest requests on the market.

According to new research from BT, 37% of SMEs have migrated to fully converged voice and data networks – almost two-thirds making the switch in the past twelve months. In terms of payback, half of these reported significant reduced infrastructure costs, productivity increases and improved organisational agility. However, nearly one third of SME surveyed admitted to having little or no understanding of what a converged network actually is. What is your situation?