The Voice-over-Internet-Protocol telecom industry is getting very crowded and, with Vonage's plans to go public, there will undoubtedly be more attention paid to numbers other than those being dialled.
Won over telecom industry with his patented new wireless protocol, called code division multiple access technology (CDMA).
The Unconventional Wisdom The market is overlooking how disruptive voice-over-Internet Protocol will be for established telecom players.
The movement from old-style telecom into the digital packets of the Internet protocol will take five to ten years to play out.
Lewis also advises buying CRM software outfit Amdocs, which specializes in the telecom space, as well as voice-over-Internet Protocol company Deltathree and flash-memory maker M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers.
For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.
The Big Trend The big telecom trend for this decade is indisputable: Internet Protocol networks are subsuming all other, older forms of communications networks data, voice, video, you name it.
With the evolution of the centralized telecom market, it is expected that optical network protocols for large carrier networks will continue to be required in addition to P2P.
That's what is behind the next generation of wireless devices from the big telecom carriers--some using what's known as the 4G protocol.
The Java APIs for Integrated Networks JAINN) activity has delivered the JAIN SLEE (JSLEE) specifications, which delineate a Java-based, event-oriented, and protocol-agnostic container suitable for hosting carrier-grade telecom services [7].
