True. I should have been more specific. I was really referring to voice over
IP being an emerging technology.
- tony
> 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
>
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> glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au http://www.aarnet.edu.au/
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> The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitised
>
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