Thanks for the reply, Ken.
Yes, this is food for thought, alright. Keep in mind that ATM in Europe is being accepted with greater ease than in the USA. We may, for that reason, see a variant of VoIP over ATM, or even Voice Telephony over ATM (VTOA) comingled with VoIP in that arena.
The usual discrete gateway players don't really seem to enter into this picture for the long term. Routers, as you have indicated by your choice of Cisco icw intranets would seem to be the natural integration point, on the back ends of PBXs.
Although, we will see an increase in the number of PBXs that have this capability provisioned internally, as witnessed by Stephen's earlier post concerning Nortel's Meridian outfitted with Telogy's wares.
The problem with the latter is that PBXs don't have the full range of router functions and capabilities necessary for IP address administration, filtering, policy administration, authentications, etc., that routers possess... and I suppose that will lead to those capabilities being introduced sooner, rather than later. See! I'm learning. <g>
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
