[VOIPSEC] 4G Issue Map: signaling complexity - more

[Michael Slavitch]

On 8/29/06, Paul E. Jones <paulej at packetizer.com> wrote:
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> 
> What has struck me as odd is why the traditional carriers do not view this
> changing market as an opportunity like everybody else.  For the first time,
> traditional carriers will now be able to offer a whole range of services
> over IP, from IP-based radio, voice, video, news delivery, weather,
> conferencing, security systems, etc.  Sure, competition is out there, but
> they have the wherewithal to grow into being huge multimedia corporations,
> not just serving as a "pipe".  (Even being a "pipe" is a revenue-generating
> business all by itself.  I've really wondered why some carriers have
> complained about the use of VoIP when they are collecting an additional
> $50/mo from users who were not paying that money before.... perhaps I need a
> business lesson.)
>
>

 You may ask the same question of GM and Ford.  Meanwhile, Nissan and
Renault now realize they are what they are, brands with good channel.  The
fact that they still manufacture cars themselves is probably a temporary
thing.  Notice that most new assembly plants are small.

Because the new world is all software, all applications, over any network,
over any physical media.  The telecoms space is a protected world far
too used to metal and circuits, generous time and generous budgets, far too
used to calling the tune when it came to the when, where, what, how, and how
much.   That space used to be completely vertical, completely under tarriff,
when bandwidth was a scarce resource. Even the traditional 3rd party PBX
wouldn't have happened without the help of the courts.

In total:  Too many people have too much to lose.  Imagine standing up in a
boardroom and saying that all the assumptions that got everyone there are
wrong?  It's a quick way to be fired.   Too many empires and relationships
stand in the way.

It is just too different and difficult to contemplate   That leap is even
worse in the CPE world.  The traditional CPE vendors are reluctantly
building SIP into VAX-era systems when I can buy a comparitive
supercomputer from Dell for under $1000.00 and a good SIP phone for under
$100.00.

I've been told more than once by traditional CPE people that what my
employer is already shipping is by definition impossible to do.

Can't be done.  Can't be contemplated. Don't want to know. Please go away.

M