Monday, November 03, 2003

Werbach: VoIP is about telecommunications as a feature, not an app Insightful comments from Kevin Werbach.  I'm also been digging very deep into VoIP and related apps, and am involved in at least two companies building technology on and around this world.  Kevin puts it well: Voice over IP has been around commercially for at least eight years, but it's now reaching a critical stage of maturity.  One side is consumer adoption of services like Vonage and Skype, but that's just surface activity.  Deep integration on the back end is a more profound shift.  It's the difference between making a phone call over the Internet, and voice as an internetworking application.  Or to put it another way, the different between the Internet as a subset of telecommunications, and telecommunications as a subset of the Internet.    1:32:57 PM    comment []