Comments on: Here Comes Trouble: Toward call.domain.com http://gigaom.com/2008/03/18/here-comes-trouble-toward-calldomaincom/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: rainbow http://gigaom.com/2008/03/18/here-comes-trouble-toward-calldomaincom/#comment-866489 rainbow Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:03:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11846#comment-866489 <p>IP phones may be problematic, but no one can deny that they are improving fast.</p> IP phones may be problematic, but no one can deny that they are improving fast.

]]> By: pwb http://gigaom.com/2008/03/18/here-comes-trouble-toward-calldomaincom/#comment-866406 pwb Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:10:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11846#comment-866406 <p>The Ooma calling service works perfectly but I'm wondering what else they could do to take advantage of digitizing voice?</p> The Ooma calling service works perfectly but I’m wondering what else they could do to take advantage of digitizing voice?

]]> By: Jahangir Raina http://gigaom.com/2008/03/18/here-comes-trouble-toward-calldomaincom/#comment-866390 Jahangir Raina Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:54:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11846#comment-866390 <p>A couple of points: 1. Softswitching is the only major impact VoIP has had on telephony so far. Voice has had a tough time adapting itself as one of several apps on a packet network. It needed a bridge to cross over from tdm to ip. And softswitch has provided that bridge. It is now upto the developers to make most of the new voice territory.</p> <ol> <li>Think of web as just one of the major provinces in the new voice world. It will certainly have an impact on telephony. But to regard web as an all-encompassing platform that will completely transform voice is too bold an assumption. What web could do for telephony, it has already done: resource management of network elements, end-user portals, and the mashups. Don't expect it to reveal the meaning of your life.</li> </ol> A couple of points: 1. Softswitching is the only major impact VoIP has had on telephony so far. Voice has had a tough time adapting itself as one of several apps on a packet network. It needed a bridge to cross over from tdm to ip. And softswitch has provided that bridge. It is now upto the developers to make most of the new voice territory.

  1. Think of web as just one of the major provinces in the new voice world. It will certainly have an impact on telephony. But to regard web as an all-encompassing platform that will completely transform voice is too bold an assumption. What web could do for telephony, it has already done: resource management of network elements, end-user portals, and the mashups. Don’t expect it to reveal the meaning of your life.
]]> By: John Thacker http://gigaom.com/2008/03/18/here-comes-trouble-toward-calldomaincom/#comment-866383 John Thacker Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:07:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11846#comment-866383 <p><em>But this telephone-centric strategy was a failure. It cost the industry the two key value propositions driving the growth of the Internet: unmetered global termination and click-to-call addressing.</em></p> <p>To the contrary, I'd point out that it's hard to call Skype a failure, and they certainly have the first issue, charging for SkypeIn and SkypeOut. From the other side, the companies that directly try to emulate standard phone service but over the Internet ran into problems because the cable companies, for one, showed that they could mimic a cheaper phone utility over a digital line better than Vonage et al. CableCo "digital phone" services are hardly failures, but they're hardly transformative either.</p> But this telephone-centric strategy was a failure. It cost the industry the two key value propositions driving the growth of the Internet: unmetered global termination and click-to-call addressing.

To the contrary, I’d point out that it’s hard to call Skype a failure, and they certainly have the first issue, charging for SkypeIn and SkypeOut. From the other side, the companies that directly try to emulate standard phone service but over the Internet ran into problems because the cable companies, for one, showed that they could mimic a cheaper phone utility over a digital line better than Vonage et al. CableCo “digital phone” services are hardly failures, but they’re hardly transformative either.

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