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To: MARK C. who wrote (23274)	8/25/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Dolfan	Respond to of 50264

Hello everybody, interesting article on the future of VoIP. And remember Digitcom is also focusing on providing Corporate Intranet services. 33% Of Voice Traffic To Go IP In 7 Years Study 33% Of Voice Traffic To Go IP In 7 Years - Study 08/25/98 PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 AUG 25 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Research just out from Killen & Associates is billed as showing that, while under one percent of Fortune 1000 voice traffic is routed across Internet Protocol (IP) links today, by the time the year 2002 rolls around, it will top the 18 percent mark, and by the year 2005, will have reached the 33 percent mark. The research, polling telecommunications and datacoms managers within the Fortune 1000 marketplace, focused on three main industries: retail, manufacturing, and insurance. According to Killen & Associates, insurance companies were among the most optimistic on the prospect of widespread installations of IP voice infrastructure equipment and a broad based adoption of IP-based voice services. The research firm says that insurance company representatives saw a greater penetration of IP-based voice than did other industry respondents, estimating 26 percent in the year 2002 and a massive 48 percent in 2005. Newsbytes' research on the subject suggests that the results of Killen & Associates' research parallels that of major networking vendors, who all expect to see a shift to voice IP traffic in the next five to 10 years. Officials with Killen & Associates, meanwhile, said that they think that bullish insurance forecasts from the research partially reflects the high volume of intra company traffic between branch offices and company headquarters in that particular industry. Newsbytes notes that the survey results are included as an appendix in the 160-page study, "Internet Protocol Telephony: The Fortune 1000 Market," that will be released next month. Bob Goodwin, the company's senior vice president, said that the Fortune 1000 managers expressed a degree of cautious optimism about the prospect of moving as much as 10 percent of their traffic to IP channels by 2000. "This is positive news for equipment suppliers, including Lucent Technologies, Cisco Systems, Nortel, and Ascend. This is also good news for service providers, including AT&T, NetCom, and Deutsche Telekom, who offer IP-based telephony services to businesses," he said. Goodwin warned, however, that the survey respondents' estimates outstripped Killen's own analysts' forecasts for the Fortune 1000 IP voice market for equipment and services." Killen & Associates' Web site is at killen.com Regards, Mark