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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Re:Bandwidth Gap

[wfberg]

I'd love to have multiple VoIP phone lines once I have two or three teenage crotch goblins, but I can't do that if the upstream speed is only 768kbps (or whatever it is with Comcast).

While it's in everyone's interest to have better upstream capacities, VOIP only takes 64kbps and a bit for the least compressed codec (G.711). You could, in theory, run about 10 lines on 768kbps worth of bandwidth. And the likes of skype (iLBC; 14kbps) and other VOIP apps (G.729(A), G.723, GSM etc) use way less bandwidth than 64kbps.