Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Texas ...

SINGAPORE--Networking products maker Netgear said it is finally ready to bring its Skype-compatible Internet telephony device to local shores, ending months of wait. The Santa Clara-based company ...

A year ago, Internet Telephony was a curiosity, and many people thought it would never work for real phone calls. Now, with services like Net2Phone, Deltathree.com and DialPad providing free or ...

Amazon is reportedly following through with its plans to equip Alexa with telephony features, which could soon allow users to place or receive telephone calls via compatible Alexa devices. These brand ...

IP telephony uses the internet protocol (IP) to transport voice signals over a data network. Instead of using the conventional analog voice signal (sine wave signal), human speech is converted into a ...

Describe the various call types in a VoIP network. Configure analog voice interfaces as new devices are introduced into the voice path. Configure dial peers so you can add call routing intelligence to ...

The telephone has always been hampered by the fact that it started life with a non-visual interface. Instead, it was limited to special signaling inputs (dialing, touchtone) and audio outputs (tones, ...