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ADVERTISEMENT Get leading insights for best practices in operations, profitable delivery of converged services and innovations in multi-technology network and service management. One newsletter delivers it all... click here to begin receiving the Lucent OSS Sentinel. Mack-inations by Tim McElligott March 10, 2005 It's almost sad to see Jeff Pulver's VON Conference grow into the serious adult it is fast becoming. As a father who is soon to walk his baby girl down the aisle and hand her off to a man who--while quite respectful, sufficiently smitten and just doing what men do--will turn her into a wife (good for him; bad for me), I see the maturity and independence of one's child as a mixed blessing. Same with VON. It's great for the industry and undoubtedly great for Pulver that VON and the technology it has long fostered have grown up. The conference set new attendance records this week and offered lots of news, buzz and proof points. The booths, much to the chagrin of Pulver himself (I hear), have grown to near-Supercomm size. And even service providers are beginning to exhibit. But with age comes the potential for contentment--and we can't have that. The industry, more than the conference itself--which still showed some lingering and welcome characteristics of a playful puppy--cannot allow itself to think VoIP has arrived. It hasn't. VoIP may be ready to survive on its own, but it still has a lot of growing up to do. In fact, the voice component of VoIP--and, for that matter, the voice component of Voice on the Net (VON)--needs to undergo at least one more transformation before it can be considered mature. That transformation will be from voice to video. When voice becomes part of a profitable multimedia environment, the transformation will be complete. VON needs to add a "V." When the conference is called VVON and the technology is called VVoIP they will have truly arrived. Get your tickets now for Voice and Video on the Net 2007. Speaking of maturity, it was an eye-opener (or ear-opener) to hear Ann Wilson of rock band Heart do a better Robert Plant imitation than an old Barracuda-era Ann Wilson imitation at Pulver's All Conference Party. Just another sign that maturity isn't always pretty. E-mail me at tmcelligott@primediabusiness.com. Back to Top ADVERTISEMENT Announcing the 2005 VoIP: Telephony Conference ::Monday, June 6, 2005:: Chicago :: Get the bottom-line on VoIP Strategies, Technologies & Profits. Join the editors of Telephony for a one-day conference packed with real-world VoIP strategies and dynamic debate of VoIP's impact on service providers' networks, services and revenues. Monday, June 6, 2005 in Chicago (one day before SUPERCOMM 2005 Exhibits Open). Early bird prices available until April 15th. Register today or learn about Sponsorship & Speaking Opportunities. www.scievents.com/VoIP05 Top News VON: AOL announced VoIP launch by Carol Wilson SAN JOSE--As expected, AOL Chairman and CEO Jon Miller announced today that his company will launch a mass-market voice over IP service next month, based on Level 3 Communications' national VoIP infrastructure and Sonus Networks softswitches. Back to Top VON: Kagoor announces Swisscomm contract and adds data NAT functionality by Tim McElligott SAN JOSE--Kagoor Networks will be showing off new data network address translation capabilities for its session border controller product at this week's Voice on the Net conference in San Jose. The company also announced Swisscom as its latest publicly announced Tier 1 customer. Back to Top VON: Spirent tabulates new customers with Abacus by Tim McElligott SAN JOSE--Spirent Communications launched an IP Telephony rollout platform this week at VON that assesses and validates signaling performance and call quality in pre-production VoIP networks. In the process, Spirent also rolled out new customers: Sylantro Systems and Carrius Technologies. Back to Top VON: Sylantro bags Bandwidth.com and NuVox as feature server customers by Tim McElligott SAN JOSE--Nationwide Internet access provider for business Bandwidth.com and super-regional integrated communications provider NuVox said this week they will use Sylantro System's application feature server to advance their respective voice-over-IP offerings. Back to Top VON: Vonage looks inside for TI technology by Tim McElligott SAN JOSE--Texas Instruments got a vote of confidence from Vonage this week when the broadband telephony provider named the company as its preferred provider of VoIP silicon and software. Back to Top |
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