{"id":26,"date":"2007-05-07T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-05-07T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:07:49","slug":"voip-is-in-big-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/07\/voip-is-in-big-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"VoIP is in Big Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/voip_is_in_big_trouble?page=0%2C0&amp;source=nlt_cioleader\">article in CIO Magazine<\/a> today by <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/user\/thomas-wailgum\">Thomas Wailgum<\/a> discusses the less than stellar adoption of VoIP in the enterprise market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe CIOs are ignoring VoIP for the exact same reason they are ignoring telecom and networks on a much larger scale. They just don&#8217;t seem to care about it, and the status quo seems just fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article simply highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/why-voip-isnt-a-big-deal-and-why-voip-is-a-big-deal\/\">what was said earlier here<\/a> &#8211; that VoIP adoption is currently driven by cost avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>The only mistake &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; that Mr. Wailgum makes is to assume that innovation will not play a major role in VoIP adoption. As stated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/why-voip-isnt-a-big-deal-and-why-voip-is-a-big-deal\/\">previous post<\/a> VoIP adoption will accelerate only when the value proposition changes from commoditization to one of enhanced value.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to make that fundamental change is to re-imagine how we utilize voice communications and begin delivering on the (promised) innovations that will transform VoIP from &#8220;why do I need it&#8221; to &#8220;how can I NOT have it?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in CIO Magazine today by Thomas Wailgum discusses the less than stellar adoption of VoIP in the enterprise market. I believe CIOs are ignoring VoIP for the exact same reason they are ignoring telecom and networks on a much larger scale. They just don&#8217;t seem to care about it, and the status quo&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/07\/voip-is-in-big-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VoIP is in Big Trouble?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}