Say Nay to VoIP Silos

Om wrote a great piece last week on VoIP Silos which is something I have been preaching since the first day I got into this business more than 10 years ago. Proprietary software and now priprietary software in hardware offerings is not the way to win the war.

The IM vendors are getting the hint but Microsoft and Google are battling back and forth so it would seem it might be a while before we can expect anything good there.

Get your heads out of your asses people! Open standards and interop is far better for the consumer, remember them?- the ones buying this crap!

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Aren't many versions of the Xten client that are sold to service providers silo'd to those service providers in the form of dedicated registrations and outbound calls being routed only their servers, e.g. Vonage? Correct me if I'm wrong please.

Hey Frank,

Yes, you are certainly correct but if I had it my way they would not have been closed networks. Kinda defeats the main purpose behind using open standards. There is a better way to solve this problem. We need an open communications federation or something similar. Something like Free World Dialup but not owned by anyone in particular, more like a collective. Larger post coming your way on this shortly.

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