Anthony Healy wrote:
>
> The grant is for commercialising emerging technology, yet Voice over IP
> emerged some time ago, and died. Ozemail was doing this in 1995, with one of
> the directors of this company in fact.
I'm not sure in what whay you think Voice over IP is dead.
If you do the sums for a greenfields site VoIP is now cheaper
than a traditional corporate PBX. That's without counting
the reduction in voice+data cabling.
If you need to upgrade you PBX from one software version to
the next, replacing the PBX with VoIP seems to be a break-even
exercise. Obviously, PBX manufacturers will come under
some pressure to lower their software charges.
In the US, VoIP is popular with banks and other institutions
with many branches as it allows the installation of just
one WAN link for their SNA, PC and voice traffic. The Cisco
3600 series of routers is aimed at this branch-office market.
Ericcson don't expect their traditional PBX, the MD110, to be
competitive in the future and have announced the end of life
for the architecture after one more major software release.
That's the *architecture*, not just the MD110 product.
In short, VoIP will be the corporate telephony standard
in under five years. I doubt it will have much home
pentration until the Customer Access Network is replaced.
Even then you'd probably see analogue handsets running to
a set-top box which also contains TV and Ethernet connectors.
I've no idea what the company mentioned in doing, as I've
never had contact with them. There are already some very
good Australian companies developing VoIP software
(Equivalence Pty Ltd springs to mind) so hopefully the company
mentioned had to beat some seriously good competition to
get the grant.
Glen
-- Glen Turner Network Engineer (08) 8303 3936 Australian Academic and Research Network glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au http://www.aarnet.edu.au/ -- The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitised
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