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Why IP Telephony?

In the last five years, advances in networking technologies have enabled convergence of telephony as an application on IP networks. Enterprises have taken advantage of IP telephony for a variety of business-critical benefits.

• Cost savings due to toll bypass and bandwidth consolidation
• Simplified voice network engineering
• Reduced legacy PBX equipment requirements
• Consolidation of wiring infrastructures for voice and data via Ethernet
• Consolidation of directory and other infrastructure data for voice and data
• Natural mobility by leveraging inherent IP network capabilities such as DHCP and DNS, IP based wireless enterprise networking and remote access through the internet
• Appearances on multiple phones to simplify lives of users who work from different locations including office, conference rooms, remote locations, and home
• Client devices such as IP phones that are more user-friendly, feature-rich, and standards-based than their TDM equivalents
• Availability of new applications and services resulting from increased speed-to-market product development
• Integration with applications due to web-friendly interfaces supported by IP telephony protocols such as SIP

Why 3Com?

3Com© has long been the market leader for network based phone systems with one of the first to market in 1998 around the same time as Cisco© and dominated the VoIP SMB business through 2000.

This had given them an invaluable lead with software development and VoIP experience. Now with so many telephone system companies doing VoIP in the past couple of years, 3COM is upping the bar by making solutions for the Enterprise which have been running huge VoIP networks for the past few years, fostering a wide range of 3rd party add-ons, adding a wide range of new desk-sets, and coming out with many software upgrades and enhancements to continually evolve the line.

In early 2004, these efforts paid off by 3COM regaining their lead with the most VoIP systems sold in the 40-400 user range.

White Papers

• Strategies for Successful IP Telephony Implementations
• What's SIP Got To Do With It?
• IP Telephony Security - A Double-edge Sword?

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