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

Great, so what is it?

[bigtangringo]

SoIP stands for what now? One can only infer that it means "Services over IP."

Will RIAA outlaw SOIP?

[G4from128k]

It seems like a short distance from voice to sound and from person-to-person to peer-to-peer. I wonder when people will use modified forms of VOIP to share music. Sure the QOS needs to be better and they'll need a way to do stereo (two data channels embedded on one VOIP transmission? sequential transmissions? parallel transmission on 2 VOIP calls?), but technical specs have a way of getting better with time.

Since telephony is a peer-to-peer network, using VOIP for file sharing seems inevitable.