A recent IDC report sponsored by the Cisco Learning Institute reveals a huge networking skills gap is emerging in North America, which spells trouble for enterprises. Listen to this: "600,000 IT workers were needed to install, configure, manage and secure networks in North America in 2007, 14% of the total IT workforce."

Looking at how certain technological advances have made it possible to communicate with others for free.

Looking at how the latest methods of communication have transformed the way we live.

The telecom industry has seen some real changes since the rise of the internet and widespread availability of broadband speed connections. One of the biggest changes is the number of people now using their internet service to make calls rather than the telephone.

Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP is no longer tomorrow's technology.

The availability of data and voice bundles from a single provider gives businesses an expedient way to track expenses.

VoIP phone service is the transmission of voice through the internet or other network systems, this new features of VoIP that allows users to make calls over converged voice-data networks also makes it the next logical step in the communications domain that should naturally progress to the use of wireless VoIP.

Sophisticated new phone service offerings from T-Mobile and others are the writing on the wall for the end of landline phone service as we know it today.

Are you looking to establish a voice over IP (VoIP ) network in your enterprise, or improve the quality of existing ones? Estimates are that as many as 85% or more of today's router based enterprise data networks are not prepared to be compatible with VoIP without modification. As a result, an enterprise's voice and data applications can undergo intolerable loss in quality.

The same type of video calling featured on popular sci-fi series Star Trek has become a reality to millions who regularly speak to each other over the internet for free, allowing families separated by the miles to keep in touch.