A Beautiful Mind

Recently read an article and all this is good news for companies that sell VoIP-related products. Service providers need some way to deliver VoIP (Voice over IP, commonly called internet telephony) to the masses and to enterprises, so we're now seeing a slew of new products and services to help them do it.

"The market for doing this is big,and getting bigger every day. A recent IDC forecast says that worldwide sales of IP-telephony equipment will increase by 48 percent in 2004 and reach $4.9 billion in sales by the end of the year. Sales will grow by more than 50% in 2005 and 2006, and will reach $15.1 billion in 2007, says the report.
Gartner Dataquest estimates that businesses spent $2.0 billion on IP-capable telephone systems in North America alone last year. It adds that enterprise spending for IP-phone systems will reach $4.2 billion in 2007."

For all inquistive network lovers, this link may serve some purpose with links to almost all protocols & standards.

Excogitated by a_beautifulmind @ 11:20 PM