VoIP maturity

VoIP maturity

Generations:

  1. research
  2. initial adoption
  3. massive adoption and maturity organizations replacing first generation VoIP solutions
  4. ??? - what comes next?

Transcript

[slide546] You can basically think of it as a series of generations. The zeroth generation was research. It didn't work very well, but it sort of did something. Then the initial adoption, we're now somewhere into this realm of massive adoption and maturity. So we're getting rid of those first generation solutions. A big question is what comes next. If you get your smartphone today, and your operator's using IMS, you're running voice over IP, whether you know it or not. And whether they give you access to it or not, what's going to follow this?