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The Future of VoIP

November 19, 2005

TMC’s own VoIP Authority Greg Galitzine the founding editor of Internet Telephony Magazine was recently asked to moderate a web seminar for Lucent focusing on the future of VoIP. IDC was also part of the webinar. The seminar was very educational and is worth a listen. Check out what Greg has to say about it and listen to it right now.

O Breakthrough

November 19, 2005

What are they putting in the water in Canada? There is tremendous innovation coming from the Great White North. I would list some of the companies that are wowing me with forward-looking concepts and ideas but with my luck I would leave someone off the list and get a verbal and/or written flogging from an outraged CEO who will look bad in front of the VCs. Better yet, I'll just say perhaps the national anthem can soon be changed from O Canada to O Breakthrough.

SIP and IMS Magazine Write-Up

November 19, 2005

TMC's new magazines titled SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine got picked up by the VoIP IP Telephony blog. We have received an amazing amount of feedback on both magazines and are excited about their respective launched this January and February 2006.

SIP continues to take the world by storm and is a technology that really bridges the VoIP world and information technology. IMS too is a bridging technology but in this case it bridges wireless and wireline. I am excited about both markets and I've been a SIP enthusiast since the standard came on the scene.

There was a time in 1999 to 2000 where I thought the endless spewing of new protocols in VoIP was going to choke the industry. As it turns out after 9/11 the market was shaken up to such a degree that the current hot standard made the most sense to implement. After all the various standards such as MGCP, megaco, H.323, etc were confusing the market and most every company had to start focusing on sales and not standards pontification and proliferation.

As an integral part of IMS, SIP will certainly live for a while and I am sure it will eventually evolve like all standards do but for now it is something technology companies can focus on when bringing new products and services to market.