Hybrid and remote work have redefined the modern workplace. Teams now connect from headquarters, branch offices, home networks, coffee shops, and even while traveling — often switching between Wi-Fi, broadband, 5G, or satellite links in the process. With so many moving parts, keeping voice and video calls consistently clear can feel like an uphill battle. Dropped audio, frozen video, and lagging meetings are not only annoying, but they can be costly in terms of eroded productivity and hampered user experience.

This is where SD-WAN makes a difference. By intelligently orchestrating multiple types of connections, SD-WAN can turn this patchwork of networks into a reliable platform for communication. In this article, we’ll show you how SD-WAN helps overcome the pitfalls of underlay diversity, which mistakes to avoid when deploying it, and the best practices that ensure your UCaaS quality remains high. By the end of the article, you’ll be better equipped to assess your network strategy and support seamless collaboration no matter where your teams are working from.

One device, endless capabilities: Grandstream’s GCC6020 series brings together communications, security, VPN connectivity, and switching into a single, compact solution that seems almost unbelievable — until you see it in action.

This appliance combines an IP PBX, firewall, VPN router and network switch into one sleek platform. In this article, we examine the GCC6020 series and highlight its compelling characteristics for both small and mid-sized businesses. Read on to see how these devices make enterprise-grade performance easier and more affordable than ever.

As more businesses shift to cloud-based communications and remote workforces become the norm, ensuring consistent performance across dispersed sites has become a top priority for telecom and UC providers. For installers and resellers tasked with deploying reliable real-time communications services like VoIP and UC, the choice of underlying network transport can make or break performance.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is not new, but it continues to play a critical role in meeting the low latency, high reliability, and QoS demands of these modern deployments. In this article, we examine the performance of MPLS in supporting real-time communications and why it remains a go-to solution for interconnecting geographically distributed infrastructure.

Network services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), unified communications (UC), video conferencing, and collaboration systems are fundamentally dependent on the quality and robustness of the underlying network infrastructure. When deploying an enterprise network, it is crucial to implement sound network design principles to guarantee optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.

Various aspects of enterprise network design work together to achieve high levels of network performance. This article focuses specifically on quality of service (QoS) and some best practices associated with it.

In the past, VoIP was considered a low-quality, undependable voice service delivered over an unreliable internet connection. Since then, the technology has improved dramatically, as have the methods and connections used to deliver it. VoIP now enjoys the same levels of availability and robustness as traditional telephony did at its peak.

Even so, the stigma of low quality and low dependability has followed VoIP to this day. In this article, we attempt to understand why this is the case and provide a realistic picture of the phenomenal reliability that VoIP can achieve today.

A WAN connection using wireless technology is among the simplest and fastest ways to connect a business to the internet. However, with so many technologies out there, and so many network design and architectural options to deploy, this simple solution can quickly take on a very complex form.

In this article, we hope to simplify the task of sorting through the various choices, allowing you to take advantage of quick, efficient, and often economical wireless options.

Over the past few years, we’ve been hearing a lot about 5G: the potential it promises, the phenomenal levels of network performance it can achieve, and the multitude of applications and services it will deliver. In this article, we review the basics of 5G and how it is poised to change the mobile communications landscape. We also examine the potential benefits it has to offer to enterprise-scale VoIP communications systems.

Jitter is one of the most common causes of substandard voice communications over IP networks. This article provides an overview of jitter and how it influences voice applications, as well as methods for resolving it on your networks.

Wouldn’t it be great to have superhero X-ray vision that allows you to understand, in a single glance, what is going on with the voice traffic on your network? In fact, it is possible to do so using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In this article, we take a look at this protocol and highlight the special features it has up its sleeve to help you with your VoIP monitoring needs.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is changing the way networks are managed and designed. In this article, we take a look at how an SDN approach can be of great benefit to VoIP and video telephony deployments in particular.