IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings

Back in November of 2006 I posted on this blog some statistics about the our (Global Crossing’s) VoIP interconnections.  We conduct interoperability testing for all the VoIP Interconnections that we establish today.  This is similar to a "turn-up" procedure to ensure that our "voip stuff" talks nicely with our customer's "voip stuff".  I like to think of this process as a value-add.  We have a large and growing “SIP Trunking” suite of products.  As a guy that is interested in technology in general, and also interested in trends I, once again, mined data points from interconnection testing. 

Below is the information:

11/2006 (Sample size = ~500)

Percentage Open Source         24.80%
Percentage SBCs                    32%

6/2008 (Sample size = ~900)

Percentage Open Source         26.45%
Percentage SBCs                    41.28%

Both categories have grown, with the adoption of SBC technology growing at a stronger clip.  Some interesting points can be made from this very informal analysis.  Firstly, more folks are using Session Border Controller technology, and this increase was observed both within the Enterprise as well as in the Service Provider space.  Good, bad or indifferent, it’s happening.  The second point that I would like to make is that Open Source VoIP (Asterisk, SIP Express Router, etc) is also growing, but more not as fast as I would have liked. 

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

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