Bird: More like dropping bird droppings on unfamiliar territory.
You are really showing your ignorance big time.
I work in the Networking Industry and the hottest topic today is VoIP.
Every time I pick up a media Magazine the hottest topic is Ip Telephony!
Why do you think all the mergers and acquisitions in the Telecommunications Industry are .happening..Answer Data/Voice convergence.
Bay/Nortel (With bay having a stake in Netspeak)
Cisco/Lightspeed
If your not to shortsighted read this article.
IP Telephony Market Set To Soar - F&S Report
June 15, 1998: 2:23 p.m. ET
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA,
U.S.A. (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis,
Newsbytes. A report out today from
Frost & Sullivan (F&) suggests that
the US voice telecommunications
carriers' apparent complacency in
the face of IP (Internet Protocol)
telephony services may be
misplaced.
F&S' latest report from its ongoing
"World Markets for IP Telephony
Equipment and Services" program,
suggests that the recent
announcements of services from the
likes of Bell Atlantic and Sprint
"hint at the end of the pure voice
network paradigm."
The information technology (IT)
research firm notes that service
providers in the US, and eventually
throughout the world, are furiously
gearing up for voice and data
convergence on their networks.
F&S' report also notes that the
introduction of IP gateways in 1996
will help fuel their desire for content
bandwidth.
The bottom line to this, the
company says, is that the forecasted
compound annual growth rate
(CARG) in the market is 132
percent. By the end of 1997, the
company notes, IP telephony traffic
reached 6.3 million minutes per
month. Forecasts, the company says,
predict colossal growth for this
market in the years to come.
According to F&S, since 1997, the
definition of a gateway has shifted
from "standalone box" to "integrated
functionality." Inotherwords, the
research firm says, what used to be
seen as a distinct network element is
now a module for existing
networking equipment.
F&S says that, during 1997, the
market also saw the introduction of
commercial telephone-to-telephone
services using IP telephony
gateways. A market once considered
just for start-up companies, it notes,
"is quickly becoming a battle ground
for companies such as Ascend,
Cisco, Lucent, and Nortel."
F&S' report notes that the
introduction of commercial
telephone-to- telephone services
using IP gateways also came in
1997. The successful service
providers, it says, will be those with
comprehensive interconnection
partnerships.
As readers might expect, F&S says
that IDT, Delta Three, and OzEmail
Interline led the services market last
year. Most of the commercial
activity in 1997, the firm says, was
generated by next generation
telecommunication carriers,
One interesting conclusion of the
study is that the company notes that
ISPs are being very slow to embrace
the technology, even though other
elements of the industry have been
swift to fill the gap left.
F&S says that companies such as
VocalTec, Micom, Vienna Systems,
and Clarent led the equipment
market for 1997. This situation, the
company predicts, will likely change
in 1998 as new players enter the
market, but also as new forms of
gateways are introduced.
Vendors with well developed
sales channels and existing products,
F&S says, are taking the IP
telephony market by storm, placing
enormous competition on smaller
market players.
F&S' Web site is at
frost.com
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