StarVox, a 3-year-old company that started life making gear to extend PBX functions to remote sites, is focused now on bringing voice over IP to public phone networks. The company is announcing ...

As shown in Exhibit 1, the Yankee Group’s 2004 Enterprise Communications Spending (ECS) Survey found 93 percent of government and 88 percent of education respondents currently use IP VPNs. However, 82 ...

There are a lot of reasons you might want to use a virtual private network (VPN) to carry Voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic, but doing it the right way depends heavily on the details involved. While the ...

In the market for a VPN? Then you probably have heard of "dedicated IPs" while comparing different VPN providers. Contrary to the popular "shared IPs," these are personal IP addresses that are ...

Nortel Networks Corp. plans to enhance its network gear so carriers can offer VPNs (virtual private networks) for voice calls over data networks, which can save enterprises money and management ...

One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing ...

Frame Relay/IP-VPN Balancing Act: Most large carriers inevitably offer both frame relay and IP-VPN services, which puts them into a complex situation. Pricing IP-VPNs too high means the carrier won’t ...

If you’re a novice VPN user, there’s a good chance that you have no clue about dedicated IPs. These differ from the standard shared IPs, and are basically personal IP addresses used by a single user.