VoIP: Dead or Alive?
For past days, the VoIP community has been indulging in a bit of soul searching. The debate - is VoIP dead? To pragmatists such as Alec Saunders the answer is yes. In his well reasoned polemic, 2008: the year VoIP died, Alec succinctly writes, "Voice over IP is just a transport and signaling technology. It’s plumbing." Harsh, but true!
Of course, on the other side of debate are folks such as Jeff Pulver and Jon Arnold, both with deep interests in the success of VoIP seem to think that VoIP is in for a renaissance. Pulver argues that we are going through Internet Communications Continuum, or "the continued evolution of the IP Communications Industry. In my case, this continuum represents all forms of IP Communications, including: VoIP, Instant Messaging, Presence, IP Signaling, Internet TV, Unified Communications, Social Media and more."
