Since the VoIP exhibits don't start until tomorrow - that's when you'll see some BIG VoIP news, I thought I would share some interesting VoIP news about the Navy possibly having the largest VoIP deployment in the world.
This is really big news when a government or military agency deploys VoIP. The "knock" or argument that VoIP is a security risk loses steam when you learn that a military branch - in this case the Navy - which has strict security requirements is going to deploy VoIP.
Here's an excerpt of the news story describing their VoIP deployment:
If plans by officials at the Navy and EDS work out, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet could soon become one of the largest systems using voice-over-IP technology in the world.
Officials at neither the Navy nor NMCI's lead vendor, EDS, would provide any firm dates for the addition of voice over IP to the system's contract.
Full story:
Voice over IP coming to NMCI
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interesting STUFF the NAVY is going to do GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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Stay Tuned, it HEATS UP SHORTLY-----Oct 27th!
How does this announcement lets the steam out of security concern, if the deployment is restricted to a secure network that happens to use IP technology?
>>How does this announcement lets the steam out of security concern, if the deployment is restricted to a secure network that happens to use IP technology?
Even the Navy has to be concerned about running voice on their "private" secure IP network. For example, there can be a "mole" or spy in the Navy that can run a packet sniffer and capture VoIP traffic. Securing the internal network from the inside is often more difficult than securing the outside from the internal network.
There are many naysayers, especially IT Managers would do not want VoIP on their network due to security concerns.
So my point was merely that if the Navy is comfortable deploying VoIP in the enterprise, then other enterprises, along with IT management,shouldn't make security risks a stumbling block to VoIP deployment.
Navy officials' push to add voice over IP mirrors plans by Defense Information Systems Agency officials to transition from switched voice service to voice over IP on their global networks. DISA officials also plan to spread the technology's adoption by local and long-distance carriers and commercial enterprises.