by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
snom technology AG, a leading developer of IP desktop phones and IP communications solutions, today has introduced a new line …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, unveiled Asterisk 10, at AstriCon, the Asterisk User Conference & Expo, in Denver. Currently in …
There have been thousands of books written about telecom over the last 135 years or so. Some of those books are thoroughly researched and well …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor, Telecom Reseller
Revolabs, Inc. was founded in 2005 on the premise that audio is absolutely critical in the context of …
Reviewed by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Thesaurus of Claim Construction
Authors: Robert C. Kahrl and Stuart B. Soffer
Paperback: 1030 pages
Publisher: Oxford University …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Aastra mobility solution now available for Microsoft Lync
Aastra Technologies Limited (TSX: AAH) is a leading developer and manufacturer of …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Today at VMworld 2011, VMware and Mitel unveiled a significant technical advancement designed to considerably increase the rapidly growing deployment …
Enhances Visibility, Clarity and Flexibility of Network Traffic Monitoring
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Gigamon, a leading provider of intelligent data access networking products, develops …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Panasonic, a leader in business telephone systems, completed its lineup of SIP phones in the U.S with the introduction of …
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division, announces the general market release of IPedge, a pure IP business communications …
By Ray Horak
portmanteau
1. An old type of leather suitcase that usually opened into two compartments. The word originates from the French portemanteau, from …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor, Telecom Reseller
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced plans to make BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 available to more …
Also known as Postels Law. A principle stated by Jon Postel in RFC 793 (1981) and again in RFC 1122 (1989), Requirements for Internet Hosts – Communications Layers. The Robustness Principle states “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send,” which essentially advises the Internet community to design host software in such a way as to 1) be prepared for malevolent incoming packets and 2) be prepared for deficiencies on other hosts that can make it unwise to exploit legal but obscure protocol features that can cause disruption if the other hosts misbehaves.
Initialism
An unpronounceable abbreviation comprising the initial letters of a term and commonly used in place of that term. Each letter of …
Holmes, E.T.
The inventor of the first exchange for telephone service. Holmes’s father had invented and installed the centralized burglar alarm system …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
During 1930 two-way Television was demonstrated over a circuit connecting the Bell Telephone Laboratories with the headquarters of the American …
By Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Zultys, Inc., a Silicon Valley company founded in 2001, manufactures VoIP business phone systems and telephones, Web conferencing equipment and …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
OpenText Corporation is the preeminent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, according to the November 2010 Gartner reportAs …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
In an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls and certain other telemarketing practices thought to be …
Word of the Week, a weekly feature by Ray Horak, Telecom Reseller Technology Editor
Aliasing
A phenomenon that occurs when different analog continuous signals…
by Ray Horak, Technical Editor
Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL) has a long, strong pedigree in the PBX business, one that the company has leveraged into a position …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Vertical Communications, Inc., a leading provider of telephony systems and applications, and Telanetix, a VoIP business solutions provider, recently …
Reviewed by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Internet Technologies Handbook
Author: Mark Miller
Paperback: 955 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (April 13, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0471480509
ISBN-13: 978-0471480501
List …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
There can be little doubt that telecommunications, in general, is transitioning to the Internet Protocol (IP) and that Voice over …
by Ray Horak
Vertical Communications, Inc., a leading provider of telephony systems and applications, announces the MBX IP, which completes its next-gen systems portfolio. Developed …
by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
In the larger sense, Mitel truly needs no introduction, but just in case you don’t know the whole story…. In …
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