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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Why is my desk phone still at my desk?

Well the new self imposed infliction is to build QuickFIX java using the netbeans. What better way of getting on rally with Java and C# then to build a small exchange and a webservice in .net. Shelving that topic and delving into how the day was spent on going over VoWLAN market shares and who shipped the most units and whose market share bumped up and which theater is showing more progress. Frankly speaking, when is the promise shown by IP phones is really going to be realized. I see smartphones projections going through the roof, and apps galore to dazzle the consumers till they will think they need a head scratching app, but where are my IP everywhere phones, and I mean wireless. Interestingly enough, most enterprises have converted to IP PBXs and the desktop phones are mostly IP based, then why O! Why that IP phone is not my Droid, iPhone, Blackberry or your pick of robots or fruits. Even with the promise of unified communication, the conversion to Mobile VoWLAN has not been "exponential". Surprisingly, even the companies that make WiFi enabled, or single mode Wifi phones don't have their products rolled through out their network. The Mobile plans are still not cheap enough to replace each office worker with a smartphone hence the need for a VoIP phone is there. The seamless transfer of call between a cellular and Wifi network is a thing of past, and it did not generated any thrill in the market place, but I think it is not the feature that is lack luster, it is the devices and their eco systems. It took iPod to popularize digital music, iPhone to apps, iPad to tabletts, and I guess when there is a superb VoIP client on a dazzling device with all the right integration to PC, PBX, networks, social media, cable, reality TV...I am getting carried away here...
Back to fun...with some build configurations..

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