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The management team behind the proposed New Doha International Airport (NDIA) in Qatar, which is currently being developed in time for its expected opening in December this year, has announced that an airport-wide, cutting edge internet protocol (IP) telephony system is to be installed on the site.

The new IP telephony facility has been chosen since it can support communications across a high traffic, large-scale site which will provide the new base for the country’s national airline, Qatar Airways, and will also be capable of handling over 50 million passengers each year.

A new market report on the on-going penetration of IP telephony among businesses, predicts continued strong worldwide growth in this sector.

The report, ‘Global Enterprise Telephony Market 2010-2014’, by market research company, TechNavio, forecasts that IP (internet protocol) telephony will have achieved a compound worldwide annual market growth rate of 1.4% between 2010 and 2014.

One of the oldest and most highly regarded libraries in the US, the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL) in Virginia, has announced its intention to upgrade the current phone network in existence across its branches, to one based on internet protocol (IP) telephony technology.

The library says its current phone system has been in place for more than 20 years and that its age makes finding replacement components increasingly difficult.

The number of businesses in Cornwall able to benefit from superfast broadband is steadily increasing, thanks to the on-going locally driven scheme, ‘Superfast Cornwall’.

The Superfast Cornwall initiative – organised by Cornwall Council in conjunction with BT, and the support of the European Union – has thus far succeeded in providing around a quarter of residences in the Cornwall area with the opportunity to access high speed broadband.

BeyondTrust, a leading supplier of security software solutions for corporate IT management departments, has successfully implemented a new business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) network, linking its offices in the UK, California, Massachusetts and Washington.

The new business VoIP system was procured as a replacement for the company’s long-standing conventional network of PBX-based business phone systems.

The University of Oxford has invested in a major implementation of session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking equipment along its research and education data and voice telephony network.

SIP trunking provides a cost-effective way of enabling existing business phone systems to send and receive signals via internet protocol (IP) telephony.

The Southern Co-operative (TSC), which runs 155 Co-op stores in the south of England area, has recently introduced a new internet protocol (IP) telephony system, linking all its stores and its central headquarters.

The new IP telephony service has been implemented as part of a fixed contract agreement to establish a unified communications (UC) solution across all TSC sites.

UK telecommunications infrastructure giant, BT, has indicated that it is now likely to reduce its original commitment to provide 25% of UK premises with fibre-optic broadband capability by 2014; favouring instead a policy of offering high-speed broadband connections to the premises of those wishing to pay for the facility.

What will essentially be a new ‘fibre on demand’ offering from BT is expected to be put in place from spring next year. The cost per installation is likely to be up to £1,000; and is expected by both BT and independent commentators to be most likely to appeal to small businesses.

Trinity Mirror, the UK’s largest newspaper group and publisher of, among other titles, the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and People, is to upgrade its business phone systems across the organisation by introducing a new state of the art business VoIP system.

The planned implementation of business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) is part of a major overhaul of the company’s communications and IT infrastructure; helping the organisation, according to its Chief Information Officer, Tony Pusey, ‘to survive in what is effectively becoming a digital world’.

A leading futurist has posited that the trend towards remote working – currently experienced, and in many cases encouraged, by a growing number of enterprises – is likely to become even more prevalent in the future.

Commenting in his capacity as a key member of the team behind the specialist futurology site, Tomorrowtoday,uk.com, Dr Graeme Codrington, said that this trend would be driven to a great extent by technologies such as business VoIP (voice over internet protocol); internet protocol (IP) telephony; and cloud computing.