Comments on: It’s About Time We Kill VoIP http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/04/30/it%e2%80%99s-about-time-we-kill-voip/ IMS & V²oIP industry insights Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tsahi Levent-Levi http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/04/30/it%e2%80%99s-about-time-we-kill-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 Tsahi Levent-Levi Thu, 07 May 2009 09:42:51 +0000 http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/?p=199#comment-1909 T_A_B, You raise some valid points here, but the thing is this: the technology works and is ready. Operators are what's blocking most of the adoption - and when they do adopt it (in international calling for example) - it is already transparent and works well. Time for us to stop pitching for VoIP and start pitching for services. As for the noticing part of things - you should notice when you switch to VoIP - but not because the quality of the call is worse, but because the flexibility of the services is better. Tsahi T_A_B,

You raise some valid points here, but the thing is this: the technology works and is ready. Operators are what’s blocking most of the adoption – and when they do adopt it (in international calling for example) – it is already transparent and works well.
Time for us to stop pitching for VoIP and start pitching for services.

As for the noticing part of things – you should notice when you switch to VoIP – but not because the quality of the call is worse, but because the flexibility of the services is better.

Tsahi

]]> By: T_A_B http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/04/30/it%e2%80%99s-about-time-we-kill-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-1908 T_A_B Thu, 07 May 2009 07:31:15 +0000 http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/?p=199#comment-1908 The precept is all well and good but the discussion should be "is VoIP mature enough to offer a transparent telephone service" i would contest that it is not. Primarily because the providers are too cheap to assign enough resources to each call. I have tried a number of VoIP providers in the UK and not one was able to offer consistent call connections and or audio quality. The most common complaint being echo on the line, or failure to connect to off network numbers. You article would suggest that if we switched a cities phones over to VoIP in the night they wouldn't notice a difference the next day... they almost certainly would with the current providers. When you can switch someone to and from VoIP without them noticing then and only then can we lose the distinction and stop calling it VoIP. The precept is all well and good but the discussion should be “is VoIP mature enough to offer a transparent telephone service” i would contest that it is not. Primarily because the providers are too cheap to assign enough resources to each call. I have tried a number of VoIP providers in the UK and not one was able to offer consistent call connections and or audio quality.

The most common complaint being echo on the line, or failure to connect to off network numbers. You article would suggest that if we switched a cities phones over to VoIP in the night they wouldn’t notice a difference the next day… they almost certainly would with the current providers. When you can switch someone to and from VoIP without them noticing then and only then can we lose the distinction and stop calling it VoIP.

]]> By: Tsahi Levent-Levi http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/04/30/it%e2%80%99s-about-time-we-kill-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-1901 Tsahi Levent-Levi Fri, 01 May 2009 04:54:39 +0000 http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/?p=199#comment-1901 Scott, I remember reading that post - really liked it. VoIP is only plumbing. Time to move on to services, which is what your company is doing these days :-) Tsahi Scott,
I remember reading that post – really liked it. VoIP is only plumbing. Time to move on to services, which is what your company is doing these days :-)
Tsahi

]]> By: Scott Wharton http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/04/30/it%e2%80%99s-about-time-we-kill-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 Scott Wharton Fri, 01 May 2009 04:32:51 +0000 http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/?p=199#comment-1900 Hi Tsahi, Nice post. I wrote something on the topic of "Is VoIP Dead" a few months ago on my blog as well: http://www.ipbusinessmag.com/blogs.php?blog_id=1026&author_id=3 Scott Hi Tsahi,

Nice post. I wrote something on the topic of “Is VoIP Dead” a few months ago on my blog as well:

http://www.ipbusinessmag.com/blogs.php?blog_id=1026&author_id=3

Scott

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