They only risk I see is trying to position oneself as an insider in the sell-stock issue. If you think the stocks going to rise sharply because you have 5 million in sales (in less than 6 months), with FTel you had better think again. IMO, savvy-investors could care less about sales, and if FTel had 20 million in sales for 99, that probably wouldn't get us past 5 bucks either. Again IMO, that is very realistic considering the lateral damage of 97-98. No need in discussing that.
What is going to get this stock rocking, imo, are new and mucho-de-clients, partners, and a web-portal of sorts. I really believe nothing less with satisfy long term investors, looking for the industry to weed-out the weak. The Telephony-Maginet of the Tempest will weaken if new avenue's aren't sought-out / diversified.
As far as the latest news on the MediaGatewayControlProtocol, it looks short term in regards to telecommunication years when referring to evolutions. Its only a gateway-protocol, and a function to both the PSTN and IP. Of course its now widely accepted that IP networks will replace the PSTN, but with one billion or more existing telephones, changes to a new model will not happen overnight, MGCP should be around for many years, taking on many new forms from an IETF-base.
Will MGCP last as long as there are circuit-switched telephones to connect to? It seems so from what I have read. I've heard the term audio-appliance being tossed around, emerging as a direct-connect to~the~net, therefore, using MGCP as a (toll-bypass) connection will lesson its future roll. Since MGCP is based on AIN, assuming a centralized service, and supports the structure to charge VoIP-Minutes, what might the next model look like if the entire infrastructure is IP? hmmmmm <g>
Its always been my belief that the engineers at Franklin are a strong bunch of edge-cutting-players taking the correct logical steps. Articles out there superseding what seems to be a normal-telephony-shift, are confusing in determining the next logical step can never be easy so one-step at a time. tic-tic-tic....
MGCP based on per-minute gateway-charging, and connection to a legacy telephone, will be the application for MGCP. Once the PSTN as we know it, is fully-packetized, and not a switched-packeter, technology will move on to higher but simpler grounds.
Unlike a protocol that is focused on voice, namely MGCP, look for future references to SIP, SAP and SDP which can be used for voice and multi-media applications. SIP competes with H.323, but is simpler and more Internet friendly I've read. Maybe thats why the statement was made "h.323 is dead". Beside, the SIP software is free....
At this time, the IETF seems to have set a MGCP path, assuming this new protocol must interoperate with all the devices. Also it seems very fortunate for all of us that the industry, has been focused on interoperability from the start, despite commercial and political hampering.
Now that we know the engineers are on track, I hope a diversified portfolio for the two-groupies FTelFNet take flight !
Gold bits cost more than brown bits.....Temp' |
