The Five Biggest VoIP ‘Gotchas’

Deploying VoIP on your network can be a tricky business, but if you take into account the five big dangers we detail in this article it should be smoother sailing.

Deploying VoIP on your network can be a tricky business. Take into account these big five dangers, though, and it should be smooth sailing.

Murphy’s Law holds that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so it stands to reason that anything as complex as a voice over IP (VoIP) deployment is going to hit a few snags. "You’re more likely to hit snags than not," says Forrester Research vice president Lisa Pierce. "A lot of companies say ‘we’re just adding another protocol to the network,’ when they’re actually re-architecting the network."

By Matthew Friedman
Networking Pipeline

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