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Featured Educational Resources
These featured educational resources are the latest items from the VoIP Insider designed to further your understanding on the basics of the technology and making educated purchase decisions.
- VoIP Phone System Mistakes to Avoid
- What’s Best? Hardphone or Softphone?
- 9 Steps to Selecting an IP Phone
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How to Select a Wireless Phone
In previous posts I discussed some of the benefits of wireless VoIP, as well as how to design your wireless VoIP network.
Now it’s time to look into choosing the wireless VoIP phone that is right for you. Before selecting a phone there are several factors that you should consider. Things such as why [...]
The Advantages of DECT Solutions
Wireless communications can be integrated into a VoIP network to increase flexibility of use.
There are a few methods by which a mobile handset can communicate over wireless. Wi-Fi and DECT are the two most commonly used and most debated. Before we get into the advantages of DECT, let’s take a look into what DECT actually [...]
What you need to know about DECT
You all have probably heard the term DECT before or cordless DECT 6.0 before.
All you simply have to do is walk in your local Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or Target and browse the aisle that contains telephones and other electronics. DECT has actually been around for quite some time now, predominantly in the analog world. DECT [...]
Video Conferencing Deployment Checklist
In today’s world, more and more businesses and organizations of all types and sizes are utilizing video conferencing to conduct meetings that in the past could only be held in person. Video conferencing can be advantageous in many different ways, and countless new systems are being deployed every day as the technology continues to grow [...]
Read moreThe Upsides and Downsides of Open Source VoIP Systems
Open Source solutions are very prevalent in the VoIP industry, particularly surrounding the open-source telephony engine Asterisk.
Open source telephony applications have opened many opportunities in the VoIP industry and many companies such as trixbox, elastix, freepbx, pbxinaflash, and rhino, which are just a few, have taken the asterisk source code (licensed under the GNU GPL) [...]
Open Source PBX Requirements
In my last post we covered the many options that are available for open-source telephony software. But open source telephony software isn’t all you need to consider.
You also need to take a look at the hardware you’ll be using with your open source PBX. And there are many factors that go into determining what type [...]