VoIP's New Role for '07
This eWeek story brings out the view many of us have been expressing the past few months. VoIP is truly a foundational technology that provides a base for unified communications solutions.
VOIP Will Take On New Roles in 2007The story mentions the big players - Microsoft, Nortel, Avaya, and Cisco. The reality for 2007 will be that these large behemoths will continue incremental improvement while the niche players and creative small companies will bring huge advances to unified communications in the year ahead. 2007 is the year to watch the small players, not the big ones.
By Paula Musich
News Analysis: The technology's focus will move from simply saving money on communications to improving productivity.
In the networking space in 2007, voice over IP will be less about reducing communications cost on a converged IP network and more about improving productivity and creating new business applications that incorporate voice to generate new streams or enhance customer service.
The steady vendor drumbeat in 2006 around unified communications helped lay the groundwork for new Web 2.0-style applications that use voice as one of several components. [Read the full story]
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