Monday, November 23, 2009

Toshiba announces unified messaging product; Watch the SIP Gotchas

Watch the SIP Gotchas; Explore SIP Compression Options
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Toshiba announces unified messaging product

Today we'll cover announcements from Toshiba with a unified messaging product targeting small/midsize businesses; from Mitel about an applications suite upgrade; and from a reader who commented earlier this month about our opinion pieces on net neutrality. Read full story

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Sizing SIP trunks is a challenge. IT architects tell Nemertes that as a rule, they budget 80 kbps per trunk to account for additional IP overhead for VOIP. In a one-for-one replacement of TDM PSTN trunks with SIP trunks, bandwidth costs for SIP trunking actually exceeded TDM costs due to the additional overhead required for SIP compared with 64 Kbps channels for TDM voice. Growing use of high-quality...

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