VoIP: How to Plan for the Bandwidth and Calculate the Cost Savings
By: Global Knowledge View more from Global Knowledge >>
Download this next:
Jargon Buster Guide to Voice over IP (VoIP)
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Voice over IP, or VoIP telephony – the transmission of voice over an IP network as opposed to a traditional telephone network – has become the mainstay of communications in the modern enterprise to the extent that you’d be hard pressed to find a traditional handset in today’s office.
In this Jargon Buster, we’ll explore some key definitions around this topic, and look at how VoIP fits into the wider unified communications landscape.
These are also closely related to: "VoIP: How to Plan for the Bandwidth and Calculate the Cost Savings"
-
VoIP has never lost its voice: How to get the most out of your business communications
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eBook
In today's comms world, and especially with regard to hybrid working, a communications identity has now become a unified calling and collaboration endpoint, one which is part of a suite of business services spanning voice, security and network-as-a-service solutions to power the mobile workforce. Increasingly, VoIP capability is being integrated into the leading conferencing and collaboration tools, giving users the option of placing voice calls through a desktop application, an integrated IP phone, or directly through the native dialler on a mobile device. Download our exclusive e-Guide and read more about:
- VoIP gateway vs. PBX: What is the difference?
- Verizon Business enriches mobile endpoint for Microsoft Teams
- Broadband Forum launches app-enabled services network gateway
- Do you need to manage QoS when deploying VoIP over LAN?
- What is the difference between IP telephony and VoIP?
-
Best practices for addressing voice network vulnerabilities
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: White Paper
As communications technology has advanced and unintentionally carried subsequent security issues, it has become clear that firewalls alone are not enough to provide a secure network.
Instead, enterprises need a complete, seamless approach to network security to prevent exploitation through their VoIP communications.
Access this white paper to learn about the current state of communications and voice network security, as well as:
- Threats that SIP/IP communications face
- Potential barriers to network security
- How to build your defenses
- And more
Find more content like what you just read:
-
Ultimate guide to future-proofing voice communications
By: Sinch
Type: White Paper
72% of IT decision-makers report that they didn’t feel as though their tech stack wasn’t prepared for the sudden switch to remote work, especially their voice communications systems. So, what are the best ways to future-proof your solutions? Access this guide to learn more.
-
You’re under SIP attack: Limiting SIP vulnerabilities
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: White Paper
Without the necessary expertise, monitoring, and management, companies could be leaving their network vulnerable to exploitation through their VoIP communications. Read this white paper to understand hackers’ tactics and motivations to help your enterprise operators secure their networks from attack.
-
The development of wired and wireless LANs in a hybrid work model
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eBook
Many companies have found that as they have begun to manage the return to offices for the first time since the first lockdown were introduced, the office environment and its demands are very different to a year ago. These different demands are seen in the development of wired and wireless local area networks (LANs).
-
Network Security - Making Sure VoIP Is Not A Security Risk
By:
Type: Replay
Are you deploying SIP Trunks for IP-based carrier interconnection or to serve your enterprise customers? If yes, then you need a session border controller (SBC) to make sure your VoIP services are not a security risk and an attack vector. Join Ribbon's Dan Teichman as he utilizes his years of experience in the telecommunications industry to share with you the latest information and recommendations on securing VoIP networks & services.
-
Network Security - Is VoIP A Security Risk?
By:
Type: Replay
Are you deploying SIP Trunks for IP-based carrier interconnection or to serve your enterprise customers? If yes, then you need a session border controller (SBC) to make sure your VoIP services are not a security risk and an attack vector. Join Ribbon's Dan Teichman as he utilizes his years of experience in the telecommunications industry to share with you the latest information and recommendations on securing VoIP networks & services.
-
Ransom DDoS, Meris Botnet, and other DDoS Trends
By:
Type: Replay
The third quarter of 2021 was an exceptionally busy time for attackers. Cloudflare observed and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network-layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom DDoS attacks targeting Voice over IP (VoIP) service providers around the world. How do organizations ensure that their Internet assets are protected against threats of any size or kind? In this webinar, you’ll discover: • Key DDoS attack trends from Q3 2021 • Ransom DDoS threats — and what you can do if you are affected • How to make the impact of DDoS attacks a thing of the past
-
Boost Your Work from Home Experience
By:
Type: Replay
Tolly benchmarked the quality of service and remediation capabilities of VMware SD-WAN to improve the end user experience for VoIP and work from home (WFH) applications. They found that VMware SD-WAN can remediate packet loss and deliver a high-quality experience, even under adverse network conditions. The results showed that there’s an improvement of up to 45% in the quality of a VoIP call with a 2% packet loss. In addition, in a WFH environment, the results showed an improved download time by up to 71%.
-
Boost Your Work from Home Experience
By:
Type: Talk
Tolly benchmarked the quality of service and remediation capabilities of VMware SD-WAN to improve the end user experience for VoIP and work from home (WFH) applications. They found that VMware SD-WAN can remediate packet loss and deliver a high-quality experience, even under adverse network conditions. The results showed that there’s an improvement of up to 45% in the quality of a VoIP call with a 2% packet loss. In addition, in a WFH environment, the results showed an improved download time by up to 71%.
-
BrightTALK Panel - Sample of Remote Participant - Filmed in London, UK
By:
Type: Video
1 moderator with 2 participant in studio and 1 participant joining remotely over VOIP
-
DEMO: How to configure VoIP and ERP optimization for 3000 employees across
By: Cato Networks
Type: Replay
In this video, Cato’s Sr. Sales Engineer Sylvain Chareyre demos IT agility as he configures VoIP and ERP optimization for 3000 employees across the world in minutes. Sylvain shows how an IT manager can instantly make enterprise-wide network changes with Cato. In less than 10 minutes, he deploys UCaaS worldwide, optimize access to an on-premise ERP system, and prepare the network for cloud migration.
-
DEMO: How to configure VoIP and ERP optimization for 3000 employees across
By: Cato Networks
Type: Replay
In this video, Cato’s Sr. Sales Engineer Sylvain Chareyre demos IT agility as he configures VoIP and ERP optimization for 3000 employees across the world in minutes. Sylvain shows how an IT manager can instantly make enterprise-wide network changes with Cato. In less than 10 minutes, he deploys UCaaS worldwide, optimize access to an on-premise ERP system, and prepare the network for cloud migration.
-
What you need to know about the 3CX Cyber Attack
By:
Type: Video
ReversingLabs Co-Founder/Chief Software Architect Tomislav Pericin and Field CISO Matt Rose delve into the details of the explosive software supply chain attack experienced by 3CX, a provider of enterprise voice over IP (VOIP) solutions. Beginning on March 22nd, 2023, it was discovered that 3CX had released and distributed malware-compromised versions of its 3CXDesktopApp desktop VoIP client directly to customers. While the industry is experiencing the ripple effect of this security incident, early indicators point strongly to a compromise of 3CX’s software build pipeline, leading to malicious code being inserted into the 3CXDesktopApp package. Tomislav & Matt cover the critical details resulting from analysis of the malicious files used in the attack and explore what pre-emptive actions could have been taken by 3CX to prevent this hack and mitigate future attacks following similar patterns. In this webinar, you will learn: ✓ The initial impact of the 3CX software supply chain attack ✓ Where legacy tools and policies failed to detect and address the risks in its software package ✓ Who is responsible for this attack and what it means for software development as a whole ✓ How 3CX and others can detect and mitigate these increasingly advanced software supply chain threats
-
Top contact center technology trends to know
By: Intervision
Type: Blog
The contact center of the future is powered by innovative technologies like AI, IoT, and UCaaS. Learn how to transform your contact center experience by leveraging the latest trends in this informative blog post.
-
MetriSight Ep.11 - A Provider's View on Enterprise Communications
By:
Type: Video
Metrigy's Irwin Lazar chats with new Bandwidth COO Anthony Bartolo on everything from BYOC to CPaaS, voice criticality, and beyond.
-
How cloud-hosted voice can help elevate workplace flexibility and EX
By: Zoom Video Communications
Type: Infographic
Cloud-hosted voice solutions empower workplace flexibility and enhance employee experience. Learn how cloud-based voice platforms can transform your organization by integrating with collaboration tools and leveraging AI and analytics.
-
A Day in the Life of a WLAN Pro - Challenges of Deploying HUGE! K-12 Networks
By:
Type: Talk
Ever wondered what are the challenges of deploying a network in a huge K-12 School? There is a lot of them... • Training local hands-on how to perform a Wi-Fi site survey so you can cover more ground in less time • Troubleshooting PoE problems on VoIP phones • Qualifying fiber connections between campus buildings • Mapping a wired network that wasn't labeled correctly • Validating new AP installations So, how can you effectively tackle this and other challenges? Well, wonder no more! Join us for NetAlly's next live webcast with special guest Keith Parsons, Managing Director at Wireless LAN Professionals, to learn about the challenges he faced while recently deploying a wireless network in a HUGE K-12 school. Plus, how he overcame those challenges!
-
Revolutionize employee experiences with AI-powered cloud voice
By: Zoom Video Communications
Type: Analyst Report
Cloud-hosted voice powered by AI can transform employee experiences by enhancing collaboration, productivity, and compliance. This IDC InfoBrief explores how cloud voice can revolutionize the future of work. Read the full report to learn more.
-
Tolly Group validated VMware SD-WAN speed, quality for remote work
By:
Type: Talk
The Tolly Group puts VMware SD-WAN to the test VMware and Intel commissioned the Tolly Group to benchmark quality of service and remediation capabilities of VMware SD-WAN™ to improve end user experience for VoIP and work-from-anywhere applications using a dual WAN link deployment. The results? VMware SD-WAN delivered good user experiences even with 15% packet loss on a single link. Using Dynamic Multipath Optimization™, VMware SD-WAN delivered excellent voice quality scores despite 20 ms of jitter and 150 ms of latency introduced during testing. Intel developer tools also help optimize SD-WAN packet processing, speed and encryption. Watch this two-minute webinar for a quick take on the results from Kevin Tolly, founder of the Tolly Group. Presenters: - Shefali Chinni, SASE Product Marketing, VMware - Kevin Tolly, Founder, The Tolly Group - Tarun Viswanathan, Principal Engineer, Intel - Swapnil Hendre, Director for Solution Infrastructure and Design, VMware
-
2021: DDoS a Year in Review
By:
Type: Talk
Join Imperva DDoS Principal Architect, Alex Bakshtein and Senior Director Network DDoS Sales, Peter Reidy to find out what we learned about DDoS attacks in 2021. Our speakers will review and discuss the DDoS trends and highlights monitored by Imperva during 2021 and how they give us an insight into what to expect in 2022. In this session you will learn how: * Ransom DDoS attacks continued to be one of the biggest threats to organizations’ security in 2021 * DDoS attacks targeted TelCo and VoIP industries and the implications of these attacks * DDoS service outages left many organizations exposed and vulnerable last year -- be prepared for more outages in the future * DDoS has become a board-level problem due to the disruptive impact to organizations
-
Communications: Seamlessly connect to any telecom provider
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: White Paper
How can you improve your communications infrastructure to better connect employees and who they interact with? Access this whitepaper to learn how Ribbon’s portfolio is designed to help you move from a complex combination of call control platforms to modern cloud-based infrastructure.
-
Simplify your Communications on MS Teams
By:
Type: Talk
Hybrid work is the new normal, and State Governments and agencies are increasingly looking to transform their employee and citizen experiences through modern digital solutions such as Microsoft Teams. We have seen MS Teams adoption for chat, collaboration and video conferencing grow to over 300M users over the past 5 years, but less than 30% of those users have enabled calling on MS Teams. Now, Verizon has a simple, scalable and reliable solution to enable enterprise grade calling on your MS Teams platform to enhance productivity and improve the digital experience for your agency. Join Verizon on April 19 at 2:00 pm ET as our experts provide an overview of our Verizon VoIP for MS Teams Operator Connect offering, and discuss the benefits of integrating an enterprise grade calling platform with your MS Teams collaboration platform to digitally transform your employee experience, and improve productivity and efficiency in your department, thereby impacting the experiences and quality of services delivered to your constituents. Register now to hear: - The benefits of accessing and integrating Verizon's industry leading SIP solution to your MS Teams platform - An overview of our Verizon VoIP for MS Teams Operator Connect solution - How Verizon can help you transform your department and enable your hybrid work setup
-
Enhancing Australian healthcare connectivity for better patient care
By: TPG
Type: White Paper
Explore how TPG Telecom's SD-WAN and Fast Fibre solutions help Australian healthcare organizations address connectivity challenges. Access this white paper to learn how these technologies enhance patient experiences, improve data security, and drive digital transformation.
-
3 key uses cases for Programmable Voice
By: Sinch
Type: eBook
Explore how programmable voice can enhance customer experiences, localization, and user privacy. Learn about key use cases like text-to-speech for multilingual support, number masking for privacy, and in-app calling to improve last-mile delivery. Read the e-book to discover how programmable voice can benefit your business.
-
Jargon Buster Guide to Unified Communications
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we will explore and define some of the key elements of a UC deployment and offer some insight into some of the emerging trends that are changing the way we communicate in our working lives.
-
How a materials company evolved its voice network
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: Webcast
To chart the unified communications journey of Eastman, a material innovation company, watch this webcast.
-
Reinforcing Firewall Security: The Need to Adapt to Persistent Cyber Threats
By: Centripetal Networks
Type: Webcast
Uncontrolled outbound communications, lateral threat movement, and limited bandwidth are just a few of the common NetSec challenges organizations face today. But with a reinforced firewall, businesses can address many of these issues. Learn more about how to reinforce your network security in this webinar.
-
Getting Technical with Enterprise Voice Deployments
By:
Type: Talk
For an enterprise currently supporting text-based chat assistants, the idea of leveraging that same knowledge base and supporting the required integrations with voice channels, and especially the telephone network, may seem like a daunting task. Text and voice assistants face different operational challenges and typically require ongoing, independent optimization and maintenance. In the second part of this webinar series, Dan Miller and Scott Baker from Opus Research, and Livio Pugliese from PhoneMyBot discuss the technical requirements for adding voice to chatbot solutions, some practical deployment options, and what you should expect for enterprise business results. * New and Improved Options to Enable Voice * Supporting Complex Intelligent Assistant Requirements for Voice * Deployment Considerations * Achieving Business Results
-
SD-WAN for national pain relief network
By: ARG, Inc.
Type: Case Study
A leading national network of pain relief centers helping over 1 million patients struggled to manage monthly invoices that spanned over 80 locations. This was in part due to the shortcomings of their legacy MPLS network. Download this case study to learn how SD-WAN and telecom expense management (TEM) helped improve bandwidth and reduce costs.
-
3 tips to keep your voice communications compliant
By: Theta Lake
Type: White Paper
As regulatory oversight increases, organizations struggle to adopt cloud unified communications (UC) systems while maintaining compliance. Discover how Theta Lake and RingCentral can help you capture, archive, and manage voice communications to ensure compliance and mitigate risks. Read the white paper to learn more.
-
Deep Dive into DataOps
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide, we hear from key decision-makers from Altran, Moogsoft, Puppet, Morpheus, Talend, NetApp and PagerDuty about how and why they are adopting DataOps.
-
How to deploy Microsoft Teams in the cloud
By: ARG, Inc.
Type: White Paper
In this case study, learn how one organization needed a partner that could allow them to easily scale the conferencing use case as well as support their longer-term migration strategy to Teams Voice in GCC. Save the case study here to explore the solution.
-
5 ways SD-WAN can boost app performance
By: Apcela
Type: Blog
Can SD-WAN make the internet go faster? SD-WAN can enhance network performance without boosting raw internet speed. Although it doesn't govern internet reliability, combined with a private middle-mile network, SD-WAN can ensure a more stable, secure experience. Read this full article for details.
-
Securing Your Cloud Voice Communications
By:
Type: Talk
Deploying voice communications over the Internet or using third-party services to host voice subscribers has the potential to create quality, security, and business continuity concerns. Service providers need to take proactive measures to prevent potential issues. Ribbon’s Intelligent Edge™ solutions are deployed at the edge of a customer’s network to give communication service providers a better way to monitor, manage, and secure voice traffic as it enters and exits a provider’s network and/or an end customer’s site. Join Ribbon experts on June 26th as they discuss all of the below and more: - Simple, Cost-effective, and Secure solutions for use with Hosted Cloud Communication Services - The Importance of Local Survivability - Cutting Edge Cloud-Based Network Management for Traffic Analysis, Routing, and Remediation. - Scenarios for Private Network or SD-WAN - Options for FXO and FXS ports, LTE WAN backup, and Power over Ethernet.
-
Why Does a Construction Company Use LTE Routers?
By: Cradlepoint
Type: Case Study
Connecting their on-site engineers and construction trailers is key to Bilfinger SE – an international industrial services provider – meeting their strict deadlines. So, how does Bilfinger facilitate reliable, secure connectivity? Explore this case study to find out.
-
Compliance leader’s guide to cloud voice regulatory best practices
By: Theta Lake
Type: White Paper
The shift to cloud-based voice platforms is transforming communication and collaboration in businesses worldwide. Download this white paper to unlock key compliance considerations to prepare for the shift to cloud voice.
-
Top 5 communications challenges impacting customers and employees
By: Windstream Enterprise
Type: Blog
Discover the top 5 communications challenges impacting customers and employees, from disconnected channels to network downtime. Learn how unified communications and secure SD-WAN can help break down these barriers and improve productivity and reliability. Read the full blog post to explore the solutions.
-
Analog lines are being decommissioned, what’s your replacement strategy?
By: ARG, Inc.
Type: Blog
Analog lines or plain old telephone service (POTS) are steadily being decommissioned, with the FCC reporting that carriers are on a path to drop POTS lines entirely within 5 years. To avoid getting disconnected, access this article to help find the right POTS replacement strategy for your organization.
-
How to choose external communications integrations for Microsoft Teams
By: 8x8
Type: eBook
Download this concise e-book for a buyer’s guide that describes Microsoft Teams’ PSTN integration choices. You will learn about the advantages and drawbacks of each without drowning in the details or losing sight of your original goal—to add voice service to Microsoft Teams.
-
Intelligent Session Control for the Enterprise
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: White Paper
Today’s enterprises strive to maintain and improve customer service while enabling more efficient employee collaboration. Access this white paper to learn how you can achieve this through Ribbon PSX.
-
Buyer's Guide: Applications of next generation networking
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
The race is on for businesses to adopt next-generation networking to stay ahead of their rivals. In this 14-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at how close we are to software-controlled networks becoming commonplace, assesses the current state of software-defined networking and explores the challenges a software-defined future poses
-
3 best practice tips for Zoom Phone & Contact Center
By: Theta Lake
Type: White Paper
Ensure compliance in voice communications with Zoom Phone and Contact Center. This white paper explores best practices to navigate the evolving compliance landscape, including how to capture and archive all communications, unify searchable archiving, and leverage AI-powered risk detection. Read the full white paper to learn more.
-
Protect your enterprise from office to home with SASE
By:
Type: Replay
The new way of working is here to stay. Today, more employees are working from home, and organizations are quickly adapting to this new hybrid workforce. Palo Alto Networks recently launched Prisma® SASE, incorporating flexible SD-WAN bandwidth on demand and Okyo™ Garde Enterprise Edition for the home. With the latest Prisma SASE advances, you can: 1. Protect the home to protect your enterprise. Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition protects businesses from home network vulnerabilities. It combines best-in-class enterprise security in a beautifully designed Wi-Fi 6 router that intelligently segments corporate from personal Wi-Fi to protect against lateral attacks. 2. Get SD-WAN bandwidth on demand, anytime, anywhere. This revolutionary, flexible subscription-based model allows you to purchase bandwidth on a per Mbps basis and effortlessly allocate bandwidth from an aggregated pool. Don’t miss this on demand event to see firsthand the industry’s groundbreaking innovations for home networks and SD-WAN. In this episode, you can: 1. Learn how to secure work-from-home employees and protect your business from home network vulnerabilities. 2. Learn how you can maximize your SD-WAN bandwidth with flexible SD-WAN licensing. 3. Hear from industry experts on why flexible security is needed in today’s workforce. 4. See Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition in action with a fast-paced demo and deep dive.
-
Accelerate digital and network transformation with service providers
By: Lumen
Type: Analyst Report
This IDC InfoBrief explores the current and future state of digital and network transformation, highlighting the critical role service provider partners play in accelerating business outcomes. Key insights include top challenges, benefits, and criteria for evaluating partners. Read the full report to learn more.
-
Migrating to Teams Voice: Opportunities, Obstacles and More
By: Ribbon Communications
Type: Webcast
As they migrate to Teams Voice, what opportunities and obstacles should organizations expect? Unlock insights in this webcast, which features subject-matter experts from EnableUC and Ribbon Communications.
-
Focus: Network security
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
During the course of 2016 we saw the clamour around network security – which was already very loud – reach fever pitch. From allegations of nation state-level interference in crucial elections, to massive botnet attacks that brought down critical online services for millions, network security dominated mainstream news cycles for weeks on end.
-
Preventing cyber attacks; lost cause or is it possible?
By:
Type: Talk
Breaches are on the rise and some leading cyber security voices are saying the best course of action is to focus on detection and response. The argument is attackers only need to be successful once with their attacks to gain a foothold and compromise the network or endpoint. Other cyber security voices are saying we need a prevention-first mindset that focuses on blocking threats before they can infect a network or host. Join us as we discuss the practice of actually preventing cyber attacks vs. just detecting them. In this session you will: • Understand why prevention-first is a solid security strategy • Hear about why there is a need to balance detection with prevention when it comes to budget • Find out how to reduce the noise and distractions that many cyber security incidents cause • Learn practical steps you can take to focus on prevention-first
-
How you can improve your operational efficiency with modern tech
By: Windstream Enterprise
Type: Case Study
Akumin, a leading provider of radiology and oncology services, partnered with Windstream Enterprise to implement a comprehensive suite of solutions including SD-WAN, cloud connectivity and managed security. This enabled Akumin to scale rapidly, enhance patient care and improve operational efficiency. Read the full case study to learn more.