VOIP - 11 June 2005

VOIP: a hot topic in the Supercomm show. Many talks on the subject and many new products/ features were announced. A speech from a Time Warner executive, however, threw a bit of cold water on the excitement over VOIP. Earl Turner said, with is ten years experience implementing new VOIP networks, that VOIP architectures are more complex, expensive, and difficult to operate than the old TDM systems. An experience, from a professional, to take into consideration. Despite such concerns, there is certainly no going back to the TDM world, Turner made clear.