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.
NMCI/EDS suck. Marines all around the globe find it very difficult to get any training done on this flash player-less network, that also does not allow anything beyond windows media player 9, even though 25% of the new PCs finally get an OS upgrade from Win 2000 to Win XP these new PCs do not allow for windows media 10 or above. EDS is so stingy. Why do they have to test (supposedly extensive testing that takes hundreds of thousands of dollars for just one APP??) Apps from highly reputable software giants whose main concern is the network securities of there products because that is where they make the most money from the big company that buys/contracts there software. Why do we have to wait five years to get new PCs with with 3-four year old processors and and 1 gig of ram and Windows XP when Vista 64 has made it's way every where is by far the most superior OS for now until Windows Seven is released. Why do they tell us we can not have something on a ( our own) network that we pay for. Why do we have to pay more money to have new apps and programs distributed when the contract is paid in full. The Navy and DOD is Retarded for ever choosing these guys. Answer back if you can. LOL