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To: Dav!d who wrote (773)	6/9/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: Don Johnstone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1622

Deploying VoIP - An overview networkcomputing.com:80/1012/1012f3side2.html For executive summary. networkcomputing.com:80/1012/1012f3.html For entire article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 14, 1999 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Business-Quality VoIP Voice over IP holds the promise of substantial toll savings and increased services, but we found that only Cisco Systems is providing all the pieces to pull off a pure VoIP system today. Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks, perhaps owing to their existing lucrative PBX businesses, see the introduction of VoIP as an evolution, not a revolution. Both support retaining existing PBX and telephone equipment, saying that only IP interfaces to the enterprise backbone network are needed now. This retains the PBX's rich feature set--as well as the administrative overhead of moves and changes. We agree that it's a little too soon for most businesses to consider a pure VoIP solution. However, small and medium-sized enterprises may find it more cost-effective and productive to dump their PBXes and existing phones in favor of all-IP telephones, gateways and gatekeepers. To see what's available now, we sent a VoIP RFP to 14 vendors. Of those that responded, only Cisco offers all the pieces; Nortel and Lucent have almost-ready, realistic solutions for most businesses that aren't ready to toss their PBXes just yet. Finally, Clarent and Siemens should be considered for their LAN PBX solutions.