Intel: VoIP is Beachhead to More Collaboration

Rob writes "VoIP is old news. Long live SoIP. That was the message from Intel Corp's director of VoIP strategy in its digital enterprise group Michael Stanford at a recent industry conference in San Francisco, California. Stanford, who works with business managers and engineers in and outside Intel, said that, while 2005 has been a good year for VoIP, the technology is the "first drop in the deluge" of IP network applications. "VoIP is a beachhead, so to speak, of services over IP. I can't emphasize that enough," Stanford said, referring to collaboration services that could benefit from running on infrastructures optimized for VoIP."

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Throw out an Acronym

[pete-classic]

Doesn't matter if it means anything.

-Peter

"IP technology"

[bigmouth_strikes]

"the technology is the 'first drop in the deluge' of IP network applications."

Yeah, I wonder what comes next over IP... email, downloading media and maybe even chat!!!

Everything will eventually be over the internet

[hellfire]

This is probably old news to most /.ers, but to those who just joined up yesterday, everything is going to be over the internet soon. Phone and Music was first to be made popular. Soon Videos will be mass marketed, and then TV and Movies. You can get them already, but I'm talking an iTunes type store for content, not P2P.

This is all due to Network Layer Abstraction. The internet is based on the idea that networks have different layers. The physical cable is one layer, while the protocol, TCP/IP is another. The data itself is yet another. The is a bit simplified, but idea is that if you change one layer, the other layers remain unchanged. I can use DSL or cable or dialup for internet data, but I can get music from iTunes no matter which service I chose. I could replace IP4 with IP6 and again still get that data. I could switch to Napster from iTunes and not affect my Internet service. I can switch from Vonage to Speakeasy or even to that godawfully expensive comcast phone service if I wanted (though it's more likely I'll switch from that TO vonage).

This is what truly opens us up to innovation and competition. The internet simply transfers data, but that data can literally be anything. Phone networks can only transfer voice information, and their transmission of data is limited. By separating out all these services, people can insert themselves anywhere in the network chain and make something new.

Re:Everything will eventually be over the internet

[Animats]

That might have been worth "+5, Insightful" in 1985. Maybe 1992.

SoIP

[suso]

Slashdot over IP doesn't seem to be working today though.

Re:SoIP???

[interiot]

"Sonar over IP" = Ping
"smell over IP" = sniff your fellow slashdotters
"spatula over IP" = Dinner-by-wire, ala Star Trek
"spigot over IP" = everybody's shipping low-cost computers to the third world anyway... this way computers are actually useful
"spouse over IP" = for people who've never left the computer
"stamp over IP" = USPS is afraid of email cutting into their profits
"Soviet over IP" = In soviet russia, IP stacks on top of you!
"sunlight over IP" = computer geeks are tired of the stigma of being pasty white

DoIP

[Eric Savage]

I think people should work on Data over IP. I can't wait until someone invents a device that will let me hook up my computer, that will be sweet!