Report says VoIP is killing traditional telephony

[robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Content of this post entirely from "www.eet.com".  I found the
following while searching for new WiFi enabled VoIP phones.
Considering the panic over VoIP voiced in ASA I thought it might be of
interest.

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Matthew Friedman
Networking Pipeline News
EE Times
(05/05/2005 12:42 PM EDT)

MANHASSET, N.Y. - The rapid adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP) is
killing off traditional telephony, with 50 percent of small- to
mid-sized enterprises expected to rely on VoIP by 2008, according to a
new study by Info-Tech Research.

VoIP is growing even more quickly than expected, according to Info-Tech
research analyst George Goodall. The study found that 23 percent of
small- to mid-sized enterprises are already using VoIP technology and
the firm expects the number to grow to 50 percent by 2008. For all the
promise of converged networks, however, the speed of the technology
changeover has put a strain on IT managers, who are, Goodall notes,
"scrambling to implement the technology."

Goodall expects the majority of small to medium-sized enterprises to
have switched at least part of their networks to VoIP within the next
five years. That could spell disaster for traditional telephony
equipment vendors, and whether they can keep up with the market is
anyone's guess.

"Companies like Nortel and Avaya are aggressively introducing new VoIP
products to the SME market. It may be too late," Goodall said in a
statement. "They're racing against a group of young companies with
products that specifically address the infrastructure limitations of
SMEs. These products aren't just scaled down version of
large-enterprise systems. Potentially, they're category killers."

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