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East Sussex county council has launched a multi-million pound scheme to install a broadband network across its 174 primary schools, in order to provide web services such as VoIP.

Companies choosing to adopt unified communications (UC) will soon have to begin planning how to increase the flexibility of their office networks, it has been suggested.

Experts are reacting to concern over recently publicised VoIP security issues, insisting that the new technology is still safer than the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

Communications provider Polycom has announced that it will be able to make a range of its technology products more compatible with Microsoft software packages, following news of a licensing agreement between the two companies.

The UK is lagging behind the US, Europe and Australia in the adoption of unified communication (UC) technology, it has been claimed.

London and the south-west of England boast the biggest rates of internet connection take-up in the country, according to official statistics.

A voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephony service installed at the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is handling more than one million calls a day.

New reports suggest that VoIP peering is on track to experience rapid growth in the coming future, according to J Arnold & Associates.

Some two thirds of IT firms decide to outsource a proportion of their network management in order to avoid the risks associated with internal management, according to new research.

A growing number of businesses are set to invest in unified communications technology according to new reports.