[*] Comments about VoIP presentation at CIPS

[Mark Monfette]

for what's it's worth...i think most people refer to this as VoN...not VoI. 
(unless you are trying to coin a new term!)

and i completely agree with your email. the VoN vendors are 
disruptive....the traditional vendors are marketing VoIP the same way they 
market any POTS product...just with new lingo.

the walls will indeed come tumbling down in the next two years or so.

cheers,

mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Reid" <billreid at shaw.ca>
To: "Asterisk" <asterisk at muug.mb.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:07 PM
Subject: [*] Comments about VoIP presentation at CIPS


> The MTS/Sierra VoIP presentation at the CIPS dinner meeting raised some 
> interesting points but on the whole was not very helpful.
>
> The interesting point was that to build a business case for VoIP you have 
> to explore the non-traditional voice features like; presence, Web access 
> to caller logs, call routing, multimedia, etc.
>
> As John L. pointed out they completely missed the managed VoIP server(i.e. 
> the VoIP server is not customer managed or on the customer premises). This 
> would have been cheaper than the compared solutions(Centrix, IP Centrix, 
> PBX and IP PBX).
>
> This is an example of the growing split between the "VoIP" vendor 
> solutions and VoI (Voice over the Internet). The two sound like the same 
> technology but it is sort of like saying apple and oranges are the same 
> since they are both fruit.
>
> The future is VoI not VoIP.
>
> VoI stresses interconnection which is what the PSTN is all about.
>
> Vender VoIP solutions stress issues like QOS, Multimedia apps, proprietory 
> protocols (SCCP (skinny) or closed SIP extentions). The assumption is that 
> you are calling people running apps and hw from a single vendor.
>
> Of course since the underlying technology is similar it gets confusing but 
> the two are really quite different. For example, ENUM and 911 support is 
> very important for VoI but basically irrelevent for vendor VoIP.
>
> Skype is such a great application because it plays in the VoI world.  Of 
> course its limiting factor is that it is too closed at this time to be 
> considered a final solution.
>
> Vendor VoIP will eventually merge with VoI and at that time apples will 
> taste like oranges. :-)
>
> In the past there was AOL email, Compuserve email, BBS email, etc. and 
> then along came Internet email. They coexisted for a short time with 
> gateways between Internet and AOL, Compuserve, etc. But as with Internet 
> email the solution with the greatest interconnection(i.e. VoI) will win 
> out.
>
> -- Bill
>
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