SoIP

Going beyond VoIP, IPTV or even Triple Play (News - Alert)? Today’s unified network monitoring theme is Service-over-IP (SoIP). So say officials of Gigamon (News - Alert) Systems.

In other words, they say, “all revenue-generating next-generation services (voice, video and data) introduced by carriers now share the common feature that they are simply digitalized data carried over IP-based Ethernet.”

SoIP will be a source of struggle – “not just the obvious market-based struggle between cable providers and telecommunication providers, but a societal-based struggle between expectation and business reality.”

The way Gigamon sees it

The way Gigamon sees it, as SoIP enjoys mainstream deployment, “consumers will demand Quality-of-Service that they are accustomed to with traditional mediums like analog telephone and television.” This is in spite of added features and reduced price.

Similarly, company officials believe, government will demand unrestricted access for lawful interception in all manners of digital communications, to be consistent with unrelenting homeland security concerns.

In summary, then, “SoIP providers can no longer ignore the harsh business reality of providing a fixed-income service while accommodating ever-growing monitoring demands.”