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A new study claims that, among firms which have adopted internet protocol (IP) telephony, a significant number have already witnessed improvements in both internal communications and productivity.

The study, moreover, says that IP telephony adoption is increasingly being seen among firms not as an optional nicety, but as an essential means for helping them to tackle the impact the current global recession is having on their activity.

Leading internet protocol (IP) telephony equipment manufacturer, Snom, has announced the release of a new business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) phone handset – the latest model in its industry-wide acclaimed 7xx series.

The new model – the Snom 710 – is described by Snom as an all-purpose phone suitable for both large and small enterprises. Snom has also been keen to emphasise the wide accessibility of the new model in terms of price.

UK telecommunications infrastructure giant BT has announced plans to expand quality high speed broadband links in Scotland to the point where over a million homes and businesses across the region will be able to access the facility by the end of 2013.

BT said that part of the expansion would include 147,000 homes and businesses across 35 localities in Scotland – including communities in Bute, Argyll, the Highlands, and the Borders – being offered access to the company’s latest fibre-optic broadband technology.

Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) – a National Health Service (NHS) Trust which offers a range of medical services for patients in the West Midlands area – has announced that it is to replace its existing network of business phone systems with a single state of the art business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) system.

BCHC says that its current voice telephony arrangements are no longer considered an effective solution for the complexity of its communications needs, which consist of catering for 2,500 staff across a range of surgeries, hospitals and specialist treatment centres.

It has been revealed that business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) is one of several state of the art facilities included in the newly-opened £105 million St George’s Park National Football Centre, built by the Football Association (FA) in Burton upon Trent.

The customised business VoIP network covers business phone systems at both the site itself and at Wembley Stadium.

Business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) is just one of the enhancements for local businesses being suggested by the administrators of a local fund set up to fully exploit the benefits of newly installed superfast broadband in the Cornwall region.

The fund – totalling £2 million, and being managed by the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) – has already been used to contribute towards a scheme by a local company, Doble Quality Foods, involving the development of an improved web-based ordering service for further education institutions both in and around the Cornwall area.

A new report has predicted that hosted business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and the take-up of session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking technology will both exhibit strong worldwide growth over the next five years.

The report, by the international independent analysts Infonetics, forecasts that hosted internet protocol (IP) telephony services of the kind offered by a business VoIP provider or VoIP reseller will be a major contributor towards a predicted aggregate growth of $377 billion in the combined domestic and business VoIP markets between 2012 and 2016.

A new report has identified business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) as one of the three telecommunications technologies likely to demonstrate the most rapid compound annual growth over the next half-decade.

The report, by telecommunications research organisation ATLANTIC-ACM, predicts that the growth in business VoIP will compensate for what it sees as the likely decline in more traditional business phone services.

Digium, the company behind global open source internet protocol (IP) telephony facilitator Asterisk, has been hailed as a ‘visionary’ organisation by one of the world’s most respected independent global technological market research organisations, Gartner.

Gartner made the comment as part of its analysis of current and future trends in the market for IP telephony and business VoIP (voice over internet protocol).

Despite the unprecedented growth in the take-up of host business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and internet protocol (IP) telephony in recent years, many enterprises would still probably express surprise at the suggestion that premises-based – or ‘legacy’ – phone exchanges should be consigned to the museum.