VoIP Now Voice Over Internet Plumbing
I've never liked the acronym VoIP because it sounds so stupid out loud (vo-eep). But alas, the world yet again ignored my suggestions. Now I will try to recast the acronym to at least mean something much closer to the perception of many in the VoIP business: VoIP is now just phones over different plumbing, and no longer a Big Deal.
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VoIP Sounds Like Throwing Up and Plumbing doesn't do functions
The reaction to the VoIP label echoes my sentiments that I wrote about when it first appeared. However, what users want in addition to lower costs, is effective communication functionality. That means not just voice conversations, but increasingly text messaging as well. In fact, the convenience of voice messaging on the part of a caller is moving to more efficient retrieval by the recipient through automated transcription into text messages.So, even desktop and mobile phones are changing into more flexible, multimodal, UC devices that are not just for real-time voice conversations, but whatever form of contact an individual end user needs at any point in time. That's where the real interesting action will be taking place - at personalized end user device interface(s), not just the resulting traffic loads through the wired and wireless pipes that connect the devices.
You don't make your point, James
You know, the main reason why nearly everyone is turning to VoIP is that it gets them to save tremendous amounts of money. This is solid fact, and independent of other factors, is a reason solid enough to agree that VoIP is actually 'A Deal'. A month ago, I could not afford certain calls abroad. Now, I make calls wherever, whenever, to whoever and how-much-time-ever I want... for free, thanks to VoIP.If your reasons for demeriting VoIP boil down to security, then I guess you have to be more convincing than that. Huh, James?
The name is bad for other reasons, too
James, you're entirely right that the word VoIP is bad. Not only does it sound ugly, it does not really convey the whole idea. The primary objective -- at least for those of us working on H.323 and now the new forthcoming H.325 -- was to build multimedia communucation systems, not just "voice" systems. Heck, if voice is all we got, why bother? I already had a prefectly fine phone before.For this reason, we removed virtually all references to VoIP from Packetizer. Instead, we refer to IP Multimedia Communications (IPMC). Perhaps that's not so good, either, as one cannot pronounce it, but it is more descriptive.
VoIP is bigger than the Internet
Despite its name, IP is used for much more than communicating over the internet. Much of the value in moving to VoIP is in consolidating the local infrastructure and management.Any small business with a LAN can benefit from tossing (or forgoing) a collection of multi-line phones or an outdated key system in favor of a solution such as Switchvox. Even if they continue to use plain ol' telephone service for their dialtone, using IP for voice is empowering. And yes, positions them for all the video and non-voice IP communications on the horizon.
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