Buyer's guide and review: Voice over IP gateways
It's loud and clear: Voice over IP offers cost benefits, good sound quality. Network World, 6/29/98.

Benhamou preaches convergence
Network World Fusion, 5/5/98.

Sprint doubts own ION plan
Converged voice/data net relies on unlikely RBOC cooperation. Network World, 7/13/98.

Dueling views on ION:
Pro - Bradner
Con - Nolle

Cisco to use SNA as weapon in carrier equipment battle
Cisco believes its experience in melding SNA and IP internetworks can be used as a weapon in the company's battle with Lucent and Nortel for leadership in converging voice, video and data over IP networks. Network World Fusion, 8/5/98.

Bay bridges voice gap
Bay announced the release of a bridge between a corporate PBX and or a public switched telephone network and IP data networks. Network World Fusion, 4/27/98.

IP voice quavers
Hype, hesitation and hope. Three words that best define the voice-over-IP market today. Network World, 7/6/98.

Voice-over-IP deal totals $500 million
3Com will engineer, furnish and install 500 Total Control VOIP access servers into USA Global Link’s network over the next three years. Network World Fusion, 2/11/98.

Nortel voices IP strategy
Nortel's new IPConnect family is a set of gateways and call servers that traditional carriers, ISPs and emerging new carriers can use to offer IP dialing services that emulate ordinary telephony. Network World Fusion, 6/30/98.

Nortel puts intranet telephony onto PBX
Network World Fusion, 7/15/98.

3Com, Siemens team up to offer voice over IP
Network World, 3/16/98.

Cisco products to fuse voice with IP networks and fax services
Network World, 3/30/98.

New devices could ease 'Net bottlenecks
Ascend and 3Com are teaching their access concentrators to talk to telephone voice switches. Network World, 2/9/98.

VocalTec tackles IP voice management
Network World, 2/23/98.

Unified messaging and IP telephony takes center stage at expo
A bevy of new products in the emerging markets of Web call center integration, unified messaging and IP telephony were on display at the Computer Telephony Expo. Network World, 3/2/98.

The SS7-ization of the Internet
Briere and Heckart's view. Network World, 1/19/98.

International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium
Setting the standards.

IETF Differentiated Services Working Group

Interesting vendors:
Databeam's neT.120 data conferencing software

Dialogic

Lucent's Inferno project

Natural MicroSystems

RADVision's H.323 Center

RADVision

Vienna Systems
IP telephony.

VocalTec
IP telephony.

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