Choosing a Broadband Provider for VoIP

While not absolutely necessary, a broadband Internet connection is what makes your Internet phone calls reliable, and understandable. VoIP uses a traffic engineering term called Quality of Service (QoS) that refers to the implementation of controls to ensure that delay sensitive IP packets are prioritized as they flow through the pipe. To forgo these controls [...]

Minimize your Phone Bill With VoIP

Broadband phones are here for quite some time and is definitely the future of telecommunications. These phones are used to make telephone calls via PC over internet thus drastically cutting down the cost of your huge telephone bills. In UK and US, broadband and internet phones have become a household name and more and more [...]

What You Should Consider For a WAN Optimization Solution

You’re evaluating your WAN (Wide Area Network) and wondering how you can optimize performance across the network. What are you’re realistic options for a solution?
Keep in mind that this isn’t necessarily a bandwidth solution, such as say MPLS or ethernet is. Rather it’s a bandwidth utilization question.
I would suggest looking at WAN optimization appliances: Riverbed, [...]

The Growth of MPLS VPNs

MPLS VPNs have been around for long enough now that they are starting to be open to the all-important TCE (Total Customer Experience) analysis that businesses covet.
According to the Computer Encyclopedia, a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is “a private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier’s network or the Internet) in order [...]