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April 09, 2007
VoIP is Core to the Future of Communications:
As I decompress from our recent VON Conference, one thing I want to make perfectly clear, is that VoIP and related technologies will only continue to grow and evolve over time and that while my own personal interests may have expanded, my interests and belief in the disruptive power of IP Communications remains quite strong. In fact, stronger than ever. I’ve waited a long time to see what happens when the world gets pervasive broadband and what happens to communications after 10 years of Moore’s Law and Metcalf’s law. The reality is that the communications landscape of 2007 is so, so different than what it looked like back in the Spring of 1997.
Looking around the marketplace, as best as I can tell, there is not a phone company in the world who doesn’t have a strategy in place where they are embracing IP based communications in their present and future network designs. During the past six months I’ve met the CEOs of some of world’s largest phone companies (both wireless and wireline) and VoIP was the topic that got me entry into their boardroom and was the point of our strategy discussions. And over the next 5-10 years, BILLIONS of dollars will be spent in the building of these IP Communications networks. And in many cases it is the vendors who are at VON who will be the beneficiaries of this business.
Over the last few VONs, I've walked the show floor with friends who represent some of the largest phone companies, and I've pointed out the small companies with big visions who have yet to build a big brand, but who have much to offer. It is a reality of the IP Communications revolution that you don't have to be a big company to have something to offer the major phone companies.
Looking around the VON show floor, many of the companies that have grown up with us are now suppliers to the world's largest phone companies. While this didn't happen overnight, it happened at VON, and it happened because incumbent technology is often disrupted by innovative, enabling technologies.
2007 is a GREAT year to be part of the world of IP Communications.
Tags: voip, von07, von, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on April 9, 2007 09:28 AM | Permalink
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Comments
I would really like to share your enthusiasm for IP telephony, and I work hard to see the benefits.
From a business perspective, I struggle to see how changing the voice transport into something less pervasive and of less guaranteed quality will be attractive. I'm not in the habit of being this negative, so am looking for evidence that I'm utterly wrong.
As an industry luminary, it would be great for you to expand on how all the different strategies might develop into a disruptive whirlwind for the better good of consumers and businesses. Without giving any secrets away of course.
My current view can't get past why we don't build a better user experience on top of the existing transport? What's so intrinsically better about Voip, other than we might be able to remove carriers from some of their business?
Yours hopefully, Matt Lambert.
Posted by: Matt Lambert at April 16, 2007 08:42 AM
The real fun is over the next 10 years, where mobile wireless speeds catch up to where US home broadband speeds are today...
Posted by: Doug Mohney at April 9, 2007 06:41 PM