Have you received a phone call with the words “VoIP caller” in the caller ID? If you’re scratching your head wondering what VoIP caller means, Forbes Advisor has the answers. Instead of calling ...

That's 3com's NBX V3000 VoIP switch on the left, and a switch based on open-source Asterisk on the right. I made that canvass as a result of reading a post by Paul Ryan, the ITXtreme columnist for ...

Session Initiation Protocol is used widely for the setup, teardown and management of VoIP calls. Much of its functionality is related to the setup of calls, as its name implies. Part of this setup ...

In its ongoing battle with voice spam and caller ID spoofing, Canada’s telecom regulator is ordering telecoms to authenticate and verify caller ID for VOIP calls by March 31st, 2019. The order seeks ...

Someone purporting to be from your credit card company calls you, and asks you to update your contact info and confirm your banking information. Only that call doesn't come from your credit-card ...

Real numbers only, please. The House and Senate have now passed legislation prohibiting anyone from altering their Caller ID information in order to "defraud or deceive." ...

The cord-cutting movement isn’t limited to consumer cable and Netflix. As Voice over Internet Protocol communication matures and as high-speed Internet becomes cheap and ubiquitous, an increasing ...

As with VoIP calls, the FCC has also mandated a benchmark for reliability that was most recently discussed in an FCC statement. Under the mandate, a GSM caller’s location must be identified within 50 ...

The softswitches that route VOIP calls get caller ID info off the PSTN (public switched telephone network), but they dont play by the PSTNs FCC-mandated rules. Those rules and switching protocols make ...

Logitech has outed a new keyboard, the UC Solution for Cisco 725-C, complete with dedicated VoIP controls and a caller ID display. The new 'board – which Logitech says pairs up neatly with its C920-C ...