Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a link layer discovery protocol that has been integrated into Cisco switches and routers ever since I can remember. Cisco introduced CDP support into their routers ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Merrill ...

Two years ago, National Commerce Financial turned to Cisco Systems when it wanted to test the waters of Internet telephony. The midsize Memphis, Tenn., bank installed 150 VoIP (voice over Internet ...

In one of the largest VoIP implementations of its kind, Bank of America has begun deployment of Cisco Internet Protocol (IP) telephones across 180,000 desktops at its 5800 branches and office ...

Cisco Systems is warning Cisco Unified IP Phone users that the system contains a vulnerability that opens them up to potential eavesdropping. The networking giant issued a security advisory this week, ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a dream concept that has been a while in the making. The idea of conducting all your telephone calls over the Internet--and avoiding high long distance charges from Telcos in ...

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south ...

Cisco IP phones enable you to use voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to make calls over an IP network, such as the Internet, and also have the ability to store missed calls in the missed calls log ...