VoIP Pioneer Predicts A Roiling 2005 for IP Telephony

[Ian David]

For those who have been living under a rock, VoIP means Voice over Internet Protocol: Using your broadband internet connection to make phonecalls.

Most (if not all) VoIP companies are Democrat / Blue companies

VoIP Pioneer Predicts A Roiling 2005 for IP Telephony
Mon Dec 20, 1:31 PM ET
Open source software communications will begin to influence the VoIP market in a big way next year, according to VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, who released his predictions for the roiling Internet telephoning market for 2005 on Monday.
http://www.advancedippipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55800830

Pulver, who heads the industry standard VON (Voice on the Net) conferences and publications, said open source software for VoIP PBXs is progressing at a rapid rate. "It will continue to gain momentum, the effects of which will be felt in the next 12 to 18 months," he said.

Pulver said the open source software movement in VoIP is gathering momentum faster than is generally realized. He pointed to the effort by Asterisk users worldwide to create a VoIP PBX. "They are developing a sophisticated PBX on a PC with the (capability) of a $100,000 PBX," he said. "It will be a world class PBX that runs on Linux (news - web sites). You can have a PBX for the cost of a PC."

He believes the FCC (news - web sites) will issue an order establishing "a broad hands-off approach for VoIP," although he predicts the FCC will not establish a special bureau for IP communications.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20041221/tc_cmp/55801111
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