VoIP providers moving to converged environments

VoIP providers are moving towards converged IP network environments, according to Azzurri.

The managed services company believes that the transition to converged IP network environments will take about five or six years.

However, manufacturers are already halfway through that transition.

"Eventually [VoIP providers'] products will be software products that will run on industry standard servers and gateways that will come from vendors that focus in that particular area," said the company's product development director, Tony Corlett.

"That transition is taking probably five or six years but it is probably halfway through already."

A recent study from Wainhouse Research suggests that Unified Communications (UC) has already changed from a strategic issue, affecting upper management, to a tactical issue for people lower in the organisation to implement.

C-level executives make decisions in fewer than 20 per cent of the UC purchases, which is down from 30 per cent last year, and less than ten per cent of companies have a UC strategy.

And while just 15 per cent of companies have completed a UC needs assessment, nearly 50 per cent have selected or are in the process of selecting a UC vendor.

Posted on: 2008-08-18, in: General VoIP

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