Thanks to the Internet, businesses are increasingly taking advantage of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and voice over IP (VoIP) to increase communications flexibility and reduce costs over traditional hardware-based PBX telephone equipment and telecom carriers. This provides a secure network, which it's foundation is optimized for data, wireless and IP Communications and includes the ability to support IP-to-IP gateways for easy and cost-effective connectivity between independent voice-over-IP (VoIP) networks and analog phone gateways. While there are many options for implementing IP telephony, however, global standards and simplicity are critical to its continued acceptance.