On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Marc Carrafiello <[email protected]>wrote:
> You know what I get a lot of? > > "Wow, you use voip? But the calls sound so clear." > And yet, unless you are talking to someone on a home analog line, chances are they are also using VOIP since there isn't a modern phone system sold today that isn't VOIP. People who have that impression probably tried vonage or one of the cheap home based services. And honestly, we're well past the point where the internet isn't suitable for voice, especially on business grade connections from the larger ISPs. Hell, 1/2 the world is using the internet for video now, never mind voice! If people want to keep spending money dedicated PSTN connections and the expensive hardware required to convert that to SIP, then that's fine, but they're going to find that they are less and less competitive as more people accept SIP trunking. But even leaving SIP trunking to the PSTN aside, all of the major VOIP manufacturers are starting to make moves toward some kind of federation. Microsoft has Lync with Federation (now compatible with Skype in Lync 2013), Cisco has Jabber, Google has google talk etc. All of these can now (or will very soon) to talk directly without ever touching the PSTN. Not that the PSTN will disappear any time soon, but it is dieing. John
