Re: Message that JoAnn asked me to post

[Jeremy George <>]

  I think Tyler's right.  With single line centrex already being tested
(at least with sip - Level3, WCom) balkanization is a real possibility.

- Jeremy


On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Perry Brunelli wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:18:12 -0500
> From: Perry Brunelli 
> <>
> To: Tyler Johnson 
> <>,
>  
> 
> Subject: Re: Message that JoAnn asked me to post
>
> I agree with you on the cost recovery side.  Our voice services partially
> fund the data side.  However, the notion that departments will run their
> own VoIP services much like they run web servers sounds pretty scarey.  So
> we'll have the equivalent of 50 (or whatever your department n is) baby
> bells out there on campus all doing theirown thing?  Or am I 
> misunderstanding?
>
>
> At 09:42 AM 8/24/2001 -0400, Tyler Johnson wrote:
> >I believe that the salient issue is that Universities will soon lose the
> >ability to cost recover voice service in the same way they are accustomed
> >to. Departmental scale VoIP is inexpensive to implement and many 
> >departments
> >will choose to do this in the same way that departments implement their own
> >web servers today. So Universities are going to have fold voice into their
> >'free' category of offerings like email. This will cause a shuft in the
> >business model that CIOs will have to deal with. I believe most will choose
> >to offer voice for free, or almost free, and charge for the network itself.
> >PBX based services will no longer be economically viable.
> >
> >For that reason, we need a good understanding of how these systems work,
> >because we will need to provide the service. We just won't make any money 
> >at
> >it.
> >
> >Further, I believe 'telephone emulation' is not what will develop, but
> >instead a more rich environment including video and web-based linking of
> >data to video/voice applications will prevail.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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