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“VoIP is a religion for me now”
Charlotte Wolter put together a very interesting article titled - 'New Orleans, BellSouth in Wi-Fi VoIP Tussle'.
In the article, she gets some sound bites from the Deputy Mayor Greg Meffert. New Orleans currently in is a battle right now with Bell South - Deputy Mayor Greg Meffert described how the city used Wi-Fi and VoIP to re-establish communication in New Orleans.
In the wake of Katrina, he sites VoIP as a major reason that live communications could be reestablished in an emergency.
From the article, "Meffert and an associate raided an Office Depot store for routers and Vonage terminal adaptors, and set up Internet phone service for the staff at the hotel. When president Bush called New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, they spoke over that VoIP line."
I have blogged before, and will do so more in the future - VoIP is BETTER than the TDM in many ways, and the above proves the point. IP is a resilient medium. Due to that resiliency, the applications riding on-top of IP enjoy higher availability. Sure there are quality and control considerations with VoIP, but those are addressable. There's just no way that a Circuit Switched infrastructure can be as resilient as IP, and as a result, there's no way that TDM can be deemed more hardy when compared to VoIP.
Adam Uzelac