VoIP News: May 2011

The internal calling capabilities of IP telephony solutions could be one way to help raise staff morale levels. Many IP telephony solutions offer easier internal calling, with free conversations if they do not go outside the company's own network and other features such as at-desk presence status messages and video communication. All of these could help business leaders to improve the communication between their employees - including that among managers and their teams.

Norfolk County Council has announced its broadband core network is to become significantly better thanks to £30 million of investment. The council is putting up half of the fund, with government backing matching its stake 100 per cent. As a result, residents of the region can expect what is being described as one of the most significant developments since the dualling of the A11 was announced.

On June 8th, the planet looks ahead to a new generation of IP telephony solutions and internet access with the celebration of World IPv6 Day. IPv6 is the solution to the rapidly diminishing availability of IPv4 addresses, which leaves the question of how future devices will be able to identify themselves online. With the new standard, many more machines can be uniquely located via the internet, allowing for the proliferation of mobile computers, smartphones and standalone IP telephony solutions that now connect alongside desktop computers, rather than through them.

A shake-up of the law surrounding how businesses deliver information via broadband and dial-up connections sees cookies become an opt-in part of the process. Using cookies, websites can leave a bundle of data on a site visitor's computer, which can be retrieved the next time they visit. Cookies have been used since the early days of the internet as a means of tracking people as they pass through a site - performing important functions like keeping them logged in once they have gone through password verification.

The average page now takes less than ten seconds to load via mobile broadband connections, figures from industry regulator Ofcom have revealed. In its latest insight into the development of mobile broadband, the body measures the typical page load time at 8. 5 seconds.