LAS VEGAS--As attendees arrive today for four days of innovative developments in consumer technologies, a related revolution is also getting attention at CES. At today's Broadband Unlimited conference, representatives of the communications industries and others were unified in calls for an accelerated transition from outmoded legacy copper phone lines to new networks that would treat all traffic as IP packets from end to end -- what has sometimes been called the "Internet Everywhere" network.
"If 'The Graduate' were being remade," according to Daniel Berninger, a pioneer in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications and now president of the nonprofit Voice Communications Exchange Committee, "the advice given to today's Benjamin Braddock wouldn't be 'plastics,' it would be 'all-IP telco.' That's where the money will be made." (VCVX is a Washington, D.C.-based startup that describes itself as "working to speed the transition to all-IP networks.")
Daniel Berninger
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After decades of slow convergence of voice, video, and data communications from a wide range of different network technologies and protocols, communications industry leaders are now fully committed to transitioning to a single network infrastructu... [Read more]
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