<delurks> Sigh, yes I recall sitting at an event hosted by Jeff Pulver in NYC, back in 2009. "The future is here!" cried one and all, just not yet. OTOH, at least the very backward looking have largely stopped the plaintive bleating about "spectral efficiency" and bandwidth constraints. I for one would love to have this discussion live in a podcast or hangout...if anyone else is interested. Michael Graves mgra...@mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves
</delurks> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Future of the Traditional PSTN vs VOIP and VoLTE From: "Alex Balashov" <abalas...@evaristesys.com> Date: 12/9/15 11:17 am To: voiceops@voiceops.org I don't mean to be a Negative Nancy, but I am concerned that some of may not realise how many times this conversation has played out before, in various permutations. The PSTN is dead, long live the PSTN, etc. The enthusiastic proclamation of a forum/vehicle/working committee/consortium/federation/association for Truly Next Generation VoIP Peering, For Real This Time--sometimes with great fanfare--is at least a once-annual occurrence, if not more often. In the end, it always dies and withers away, because in the end, nobody really cares what a consortium of small operators think. Without buy-in from a major-league industry actor, the one-year survival rate on these visionary initiatives is extremely low. I'm not saying it shouldn't be tried again. I would just be realistic about the possibilities for large, cosmological-type change. The reality is that almost all ITSPs make and receive almost all of their calls to and from the PSTN, in one way or another. As long as that's the case, there won't be the critical mass for anyone to sponsor Truly Next Generation VoIP Peering, For Real This Time. -- Alex -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30346 United States Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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