VoIP Advances And Trends For 2004

gardel writes "So everyone's top-tech predictions for 2004 says it will be the year of VoIP. What does that really mean? This may narrow it down. Here's Voxilla's list of the top-10 advances and trends in the world of VoIP. On the list: VoIP and cellular converges, IP phones take over, Chinese and Mexican phone numbers come to the U.S., Asterisk hits it big. What would you add?"

Comments

Voxilla = gardel

[HardcoreGamer]

gardel: at least have the courtesy to admit that Voxilla IS YOUR SITE.

Check gardel's previous posts if you don't believe me.

If you're going to self-promote, be up front about it.

Re:Voxilla = gardel

[gardel]

I did not place this here anonymously and used my email address at voxilla.com. I'm not entirely ceertain how else to be up front about it.

Re:Voxilla = gardel

[Feztaa]

I did not place this here anonymously and used my email address at voxilla.com. I'm not entirely ceertain how else to be up front about it.

Just looking at the post, I have no idea who you are or that you're associated with Voxilla in any way.

Typically it's good manners to end your submission with "(disclaimer, I run Voxilla)" or something similar. Ever noticed how Slashdot editors write similar statements when they post stories about Newsforge, or ThinkGeek, or those other OSDN pages?

Re:The technology is there, but

[cullenfluffyjennings]

I agree there are some issues for the VoIP folks to figure out here but for comparisons sake ....

the first question you get asked when you phone 911 on a traditional land line is "where are you?" This is because the traditional location information is wrong a surprising amount of the time.

Troll--stealing posts.

[Davak]

ROTFL... but I am honored.

If you are going to steal one of my previous posts, please remove my name from the post before you hit submit.

This guy is using a database of highly ranked posts to boost his karma.

Davak

Call quality and reliability is the killer

[rmonday]

VOIP is OK if you really, really need to save money, but often it's more important to be able to reach somebody immediately on a line where you can actually understand each other, all of the time.

It's a similar problem with the deep discount long distance carriers in the US and elsewhere. Usable if you don't expect it to work all the time, and if you don't mind delays, echos and so on, but even for personal calls it's often better to pay the extra for a proper carrier, just to save the wasted time from having to repeat things and call back.

So, there's a market for VOIP at the cheap end of the market, and it's hurting the really low-cost carriers already, but there will remain a much bigger market for phone service that just works, all the time, has proper capacity engineering, and has a high quality connection.

Re:Asterisk

[DarthBart]

Having been an Asterisk developer for several years now, I tend to agree with the ad-hoc support of standard protocols (SIP and the ongoing battle between chan_h323 and chan_oh323). However, these days you don't see any more incompatibilities between * and other equipment than you would between, say, a Multitech MVP410 and a Cisco 7960 SIP phone. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The advantage is that you can sniff the SIP/H323 session, figure out which end isn't following standards and adapt * to work with what you've got.