VoIP News & Information

In part one of this special Polycom On Demand podcast, the hosts visit with several Polycom employees during their time on the show floor and review three new announcements made by Polycom during the show, including the new IP phones and softphone enabling solutions.Products and services mentioned in the announcements include:    Polycom HD Voice

Today’s VoIP resellers can rest assured that there’s simply no shortage of business opportunities being presented by VoIP. Consider this: Palo Alto, Calif., based Radicati Group Inc., recently forecast that nearly three-quarters of corporate phone lines will use VoIP within the next 3 years. Jumping on board are businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shops to blue chip companies such a...

You may not currently have a huge choice in buying VoIP phones. After all, most companies buy phones that work with their PBXs, not the other way around. You're often limited to your PBX vendor's proprietary or third party vendor-certified models -- at least until session initiation protocol (SIP) is mature and ubiquitous enough to become the standard (that might take a while).