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Intel: VoIP is Beachhead to More Collaboration

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the changing-the-world dept.

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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  1. Er, Services over IP ... aka ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    ... "The Internet" ...?

  2. What about TV by MSDos-486 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Am I the only one who thinks that moving TV over to IP is an intresting idea. Either in sort of a pod casting distribution method or in a tradtional method of channels, or maybe both. DTV http://participatoryculture.org/download.php seems intresting but i havent tried it yet (im waiting for the Windows version).

  3. Bandwidth Gap by NardofDoom · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Services over IP would be great. I'm looking forward to it. However, if everyone is VoIPing or teleconferencing or sharing the videos of their kids first steps, a couple things need to happen.

    Sure 6Mbps downstream speed is great, unless you're trying to upload a video to a web host or worse, stream it from your machine. Upload speeds must be 50% of download speeds for this sort of future to happen. 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).

    Fix the upstream bandwidth gap, run some fiber to the home and then we'll talk about more services over IP.

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