Australia's biggest known migration to Microsoft's new Exchange 2007 collaboration platform will kick off early next year, as brewer Lion Nathan moves around 3,000 users to the new system.
Sydney's Macquarie University is weighing up a move to Microsoft's Exchange collaboration platform, as its current Novell GroupWise solution proves less able to handle next-generation technologies such as IP telephony.
After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta version of Microsoft's VoIP software, an event that marks an important step in the evolution of corporate communications.
The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has flagged plans to migrate to an Internet Protocol-based (IP) telephony system, keeping its options open on a full unified communications move.
Cisco Systems plans to finally adopt a key Internet Protocol telephony standard, allowing the addition of new network-service features and enabling companies such as Microsoft to integrate their communications products with Cisco gear.
There's been a lot of talk about network convergence, the idea that data, voice and video traffic will one day travel over a single network. In this special report, we look at how Mount Erin Secondary College is tackling convergence and IP telephony goals at footy club the West Coast Eagles.
Accountancy group PKF Australia has started migrating its 800 or so users from IBM's Lotus Notes collaboration platform to rival Microsoft's Exchange infrastructure.
IT&T recruitment company Hudson has given an optimistic prediction on the job front for the rest of the year despite concerns about offshoring.
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Toward the end of the year, more people will be talking to their notebooks.
Fonality's trixbox is an ISDN and traditional POTS-style telephony system based on the open source Asterisk software, and comes with dedicated hardware eliminating compatibility issues. We found trixbox to be competitively priced and easy to set up.
By being very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. However scalability could be an issue for larger organisations.
The Linksys CIT400 allows you to make both land-line and Skype calls, all without a PC.
While being a leader in most areas of IP telephony, Avaya have previously been lacking in support for the smaller end of the market. That's set to change, however, thanks to the introduction of the new Avaya IP Office, a VoIP solution which caters from as little as two users right through to 360 users per server.
Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.
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