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November 20, 2006

VoIP Takes Yet Another Pioneering Move, Albeit Small.

‘Global Crossing’s’ merger with ‘Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) in October this year had a mixed reception. The positive side was that the VoIP business appeared to be making the right moves towards becoming more interconnected and simple. On the other hand the industry was seen to have quite a few VoIP problems to overcome before such goals could be met.

The so called ‘joining’ of these two companies actually meant both companies sought to improve the connections between VoIP providers and the VPF peering points via the various Ethernet links running over Global Crossing’s widely spread MPLS network. Joint marketing and technical collaboration is believed to smooth out the process of interconnection.

This deal is going to let VoIP providers around the world exchange traffic amongst each other more easily without the need to touch the PSTN. Money will therefore be saved, features will be possible now that were restricted to end-to-end IP connections. In its entirety this merger means the first steps are being made away from the infamous islands of VoIP into the direction of seamless service delivery that the internet and PSTN offer.

Unfortunately the deal won’t let either Global Crossing or Stealth VPF customers finish IP phone calling to each others users whilst paying nothing per-minute or long-distance charges.

The future of VoIP , as yet as dynamic as ever, looks set to try to move in the direction of VoIP providers trying to sell their services in the simpler way that the traditional phone companies did, whilst at the same time conversely being as up-to-date and technologically advanced as possible.

Posted by David at November 20, 2006 11:08 AM