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ALSO CALLED: Voice over Internet Protocol, IP Voice, Cable VOIP, VoIP Services, Voice over IP, Voice-over-Broadband, VoB, and Voice-over-IP
DEFINITION: What is VoIP? VoIP (voice over IP) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet.VoIP involves sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than by using the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public  … 
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Extend the Value of IBM Lotus Applications to Increase Productivity with Avaya Unified Communications: Sponsored by Avaya and IBM
sponsored by Avaya
WHITE PAPER: Good communications are key to any company's success. The most successful enterprises strive for anywhere, anytime communications to best serve employees and clients who are increasingly mobile and geographically diverse. By unifying communications, a company can deliver communications anywhere, anytime and any way.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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The High-Availability Business: How a Simpler Network Can Meet the Demands of Business-Critical Applications
sponsored by Ciena
WHITE PAPER: Emerging applications like VoIP, video, Web services, and data replication are placing unprecedented performance demands on enterprise Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks (MANs/WANs). How can enterprises meet these requirements and still keep networking costs under control? This paper fills in the details.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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The Multiscreen concept: Why it's Needed and How to Get Started
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
PODCAST: Multi-screen is the next step beyond Triple Play. Triple Play allows consumers to experience media on their mobile, their TV, and their PC. Multi-screen allows content to be consumed seamlessly. Listen to this podcast and see how both consumers and service providers benefit from this evolutionary step in multimedia presentations.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2009
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The Evolution of IPTV: A Provider's Perspective
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
PODCAST: In this podcast, you will hear how today's operational IPTV business will soon evolve to a multimedia and multi-screen environment and how Alcatel-Lucent is helping service operators along that very important journey.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: Connecting and leveraging VoIP islands
sponsored by Orange Business Services
EGUIDE: VoIP, and IP networks in general, work better when they can connect directly to other IP networks. However, there are challenges to skirting the PSTN altogether. This E-Guide covers the pitfalls of VoIP islands; the challenges associated with moving away from the PSTN; and ultimately how to get the most from your IP network.
Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 29 May 2009
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Unified Communications Pocket Guide
sponsored by ShoreTel
EGUIDE: This guide is intended for both IT staff, voice system managers, as well as CIOs. It describes the issues decision makers need to understand as they set out to build a winning unified communication strategy.
Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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2008 Nemertes Report Executive Summary-- Unified Communications and Collaboration: Top VoIP Vendors Report
sponsored by ShoreTel
ANALYST REPORT: Check out this analyst report that examines real-life business situations and provides recommendations about IP telephony solutions providers and best practices.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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IP Unified Communications Systems Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Whitepaper
sponsored by ShoreTel
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to present and discuss the ShoreTel TCO Tool, an analytical method that informs and accelerates the technology evaluation process by calculating and comparing the TCO of available IP-based UC systems.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems: How Architecture and Design Differentiate ShoreTel from the Competition
sponsored by ShoreTel
PRODUCT LITERATURE: ShoreTel's architecture and design not only deliver high reliability, but do so in a very simple and cost-effective manner. This paper describes ShoreTel's unique approach to providing extremely reliable VoIP.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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Best Practices for Controlling Skype in your Enterprise
sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: Skype usage is continuing to gain ground in enterprises with over 250 million downloads worldwide. Management therefore needs to decide whether the benefits overcome the drawbacks and set appropriate policies within the organization. Read this paper for more details.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009
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Top 10 Questions Asked by Service Providers when Considering an Open Source BSS Solution
sponsored by Transverse
PODCAST: Moderated by Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director of the Mobile Ecosystem, the leading consulting and advisory firm focused on next generation mobile communications products and services, this podcast features the top ten questions asked by service providers when considering an open source BSS solution.
Posted: 12 May 2009 | Premiered: 12 May 2009
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Phone Hardening-- Part I
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This paper presumes that your enterprise already has a data network security policy in place. It examines the many different settings that are available to help secure the Cisco IP Phones from potential hacker attacks, and it looks at a selection of Cisco secure infrastructure technologies that are especially useful for protecting voice systems.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Best Practices for Planning, Deploying and Managing Enterprise VoIP
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to help the reader gain a better understanding of the challenges presented by VoIP as well as what must be done from a planning and management perspective to successfully deploy VoIP. The discussion includes a high level description of a proven methodology for deploying VoIP and other demanding applications.
Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 30 Apr 2008
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Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 2008
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The Key to Optimizing VoIP Deployments
sponsored by Blue Coat
DATA SHEET: To optimize VoIP deployments, Blue Coat is driving a new generation of solutions designed to accelerate converged IP voice and data networks. With Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network (ADN), IT can deploy comprehensive application visibility, security and acceleration technologies to deliver the highest quality VoIP transactions possible.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 2008
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INERGY Automotive Systems Increases Network Performance and Enterprise Security while Realizing a Rapid Return on Investment
sponsored by Blue Coat
CASE STUDY: Read this case study to discover how INERGY Automotive Systems enhanced overall security, protected business-critical applications, diminished need to expand WAN bandwidth, and optimized access to centralized systems and applications by implementing successful data and network convergence using Blue Coat Intelligence solutions.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009
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Apptix Chooses Replay as Their Exchange Backup Solution
sponsored by AppAssure Software
CASE STUDY: Maintaning an Exchange backup was certainly a challenge for Apptix, to overcome this challenge they used Replay, as a result of which they were able to eliminate about five hours of restore processes.
Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009
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Accelerated Process Development and Execution in Large IP Service and Network Migration Programs
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER: The lessons from this whitepaper are applicable to a wide array of IP transformation programs and technically complex change management projects.
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 | Published: 26 Mar 2009
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Building a Home Lab Environment for Cisco Unified Communications
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment.
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009
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Real-Time Adaptive Security
sponsored by Sourcefire
WHITE PAPER: Real-time adaptive intrusion systems integrate with network access controls and user data repositories for tracing events to systems and specific users dynamically monitor traffic patterns to mitigate threats and leverage vulnerability assessment.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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Reduce Your Telecom and IT Costs with Speech-Driven Packaged Applications (Presentation Copy)
sponsored by Nuance
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This document is based on a Nuance/TechTarget Webcast entitled "Reduce Your Telecom and IT Costs with Speech-Driven Packaged Applications." It explains how speech-based solutions can help us to cut IT and telecommunication costs.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Cisco Unified Communications: Unifying Communications Infrastructure
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Cisco's unified communications vision combines individual systems with different communications capabilities into a cohesive, powerful communications ecosystem that allows a business to revolutionize itself overnight.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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TOPICS:  IP Telephony | PSTN | QOS | ROI | VoIP | WAN | WLAN

Qos: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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IDC White Paper - Enterprise Data Protection Security Best Practices
sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital
WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the ever-growing need for data protection security best practices for enterprise computers, it also discusses the data and information security issues associated with personal computers.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Case Study: Wind, Italy - Transforming The Business to Deliver Triple Play Services To Customers
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
CASE STUDY: Alcatel-Lucent introduced a business transformation program, enabling the delivery of a turnkey integrated triple play solution, for which it provided the design, testing, integration, deployment and maintenance.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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VOIP DEFINITION (continued): …  switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service. Ask questions about VoIP at ITKnowledgeExchange.comVoIP derives from the VoIP Forum, an effort by major equipment providers, including Cisco, VocalTec, 3Com, and Netspeak to promote the use of ITU-T H.323, the standard for sending voice (audio) and video using IP on the public Internet and within an intranet. The Forum also promotes the user of … 
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