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."

Comments

Re:Throw out an Acronym

[mhearne]

What does "SoIP mean anyway? I really dislike the way new acronyms are thrown to the public before they are defined - sounds like an advertising ploy of some kind to me.

I have enough on my plate dealing with the protocols that already exist, and I'm much more concerned with science than money, so why should I be concerned about this latest alert in my inbox?

Have a great time with it, I'm busy with other things.

Michael

Re:Everything will eventually be over the internet

[linzeal]

You would be surprised on the range of technical competence about routine network administration matters when it comes to scientists and engineers who do not use the technology directly. Some of them know little more than the user interface of a few core programs besides the ubiqitious broswer, office and email applications.