• National Library embarks on telephony rip and replace

  The National Library of Australia is implementing a new Alcatel-Lucent telephony system as it ditchs an aging PABX setup.

• Queensland Government seeks IP telephony supplier

  The Queensland Government’s Department of Education and Training wants to begin a preferred supplier agreement for the delivery and installation of internet protocol (IP) telephony systems on a state wide basis.

• Perth Zoo quits monkeying with its analogue PABX

  Perth Zoo is to move to a new IP telephony which will service the organisation for the next 10 years, according to the Western Australia Zoological Parks Authority (ZPA).

• Optus, Brisbane Council ink $60 million IP deal

  Brisbane City Council has awarded Optus a $60 million network managed services contract to transform its telecommunications network infrastructure to a new IP-based communications system.

• Five open source IP telephony projects to watch

  In addition to the well-known Asterisk, there is a vibrant community of open source software PBX systems that can be used for internal and service provider IP telephony. Here are five exciting open source VoIP and UC projects to keep an eye on.

Whitepapers about ip telephony

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  The Case for Real-Time Networking

  CIOs are facing several powerful trends and inflection points that are defining the new IT landscape, including cloud computing, virtualization, the consumerization of IT, smart computing, and communications to collaboration. Taken individually, each one of these trends will have significant ripple effects throughout the planning and operations of IT network infrastructure. In aggregate, they will have an even more dramatic impact on the way that future network architectures need to be planned and designed. Read on.

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  The Convergence of IT Operations Management

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  Blurring boundaries: The disappearing gap between work and home life

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  The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimisation