Christopher Dean speaking at ITExpo Thursday
The VoIP industry conference in Miami, Florida, hasn't published the title of Skype's chief strategy officer's Thursday morning keynote. If you're attending, drop a line to tips@skypejournal.com or @skypejournal. Here's hoping Dean will speak to Skype's VoIP channel strategy, Skype's role in wideband audio VoIP, and Skype's struggle for access to mobile broadband.
Skype trunking lets your phone system dial out through the Skype network at SkypeOut rates. Now that Skype trunking products are shipping for legacy PBXs (see VoSKY's SMB gateways), Asterisk-based switches, and some Cisco, ShoreTel, and SIPfoundry PBXs, what will Skype do for the VoIP hardware and service distribution channels? When will Avaya, Nortel, Mitel, NEC and others offer Skype trunking? What does the channel need from Skype? Can Skype offer the channel meaningful commissions?
Have the hundreds of millions of Skype customers changed consumer expectations for all audio quality? Is Skype driving demand for HD telephony? What barriers remain to upgrading the mobile and enterprise networks to HD audio?
On the regulatory front, is Skype's appeal for net neutrality, for an open Internet, for equal access getting any support with the VoIP industry? The VoIP industry serves incumbent telcos and opposes their political agenda at great risk. Can Skype frame its issues to earn mindshare at ITExpo East?
tags: skype, voip, itexpo, vosky, asterisk, shoretel, sipfoundry, avaya, nortel, mitel, nec, trunking, skypeforsip
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1 Comments:
Another question of interest is the prospect for Skype openness to HD interconnection. The enabling elements seem to exist in the no cost distribution of SILK and SIP interconnection support, but there appears not interest from a business model perspective. Skype remains all about increasing the number of Skype end points. The strategy does make Skype a very successful on-ramp to the PSTN, but it misses the game changing potential of open HD interconnection. I think the appropriate analogy is AOL and the Web circa 1991. The closed AOL world attracted users only until the open web world got traction. Skype seems on a path of repeating AOL's failed strategy of withholding interconnection.
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