The Next Battleground for VoIP (O'Reilly)

Posted Feb 3, 2006 9:03 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670)
Parent article: The Next Battleground for VoIP (O'Reilly)

I wonder in which parallell universe "Skype has non-mobile VoIP more or less to itself" in which the author lives? Sure, Skype has in a short period of time become a very big player in the IM/voice space, something everbody thought of as dead. But MSN Messenger is much larger still. It's not really a competition.

For phone-style VoIP, SIP took over the whole market some five years ago and nothing threatens it in company VoIP market. Granted, there are other protocols but not in desktop phones. All the big players (Cisco, Nortel, Ericsson, ...) are there, it's an enormous market. How many company PBXes run Skype? None.

Sounds more like an author wanting to push his book.

The Next Battleground for VoIP (O'Reilly)

Posted Feb 3, 2006 13:40 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

I stumbled over some recent market research on this. In the consumer market (where Skype supposedly is so big), they have 14% of VoIP-PSTN calls in North America. A lot more than I had expected, even if Vonage has 22% so while being far from largest, they are not unimportant either.