VoIP: Who is offering What

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VoIP Who is offering What How

• Understanding the Current VoIP Product Offerings
• Daniel Berninger, independent technology analyst
• danielberninger.com
• Information Technology Association
• January 29, 2004

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In the News - What IS VoIP?

• FCC VoIP Regulatory Debate
• December 1, 2003 Forum
• VoIP petitions
• NPRM (March)
• Regulatory burdens - USP Access Fees?
• ATT - VoIP in the middle
• FWD - end-to-end VoIP
• Vonage - PSTN hopoff
• Level3 - forebearance for now
• Positioning
• Powell - do no harm
• Martin - spectrum of VoIP services
• Copps - leave no stakeholder behind
• Hundt - just say no!
• Tauke - PSTN taint model

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VoIP versus PSTN
user relationship
Internet
PSTN
access relationship
Not !
Independent Networks
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What makes VoIP different?

• Not convergence - hostile takeover by Moores
  Law
• Communication just application of info
  technology industry
• Decouple application from connectivity
  (transport)
• Destroys phone company vertical integration
• Non-metered usage - distance and time irrelevant
• Consumer electronics model
• Old world revolved around controlling supply
• Anti-competition and regulatory capture
• New world revolves around generating demand
• Applications and value drive demand

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Dimensions of variation VoIP products

• PSTN interconnect
• User interface voice (e.g. deskphone, headset,
  PC, )
• Supplemental interfaces (e.g. web config/info,
  video,)
• Software install versus special purpose device
• Bandwidth QoS requirements
• access media
• Real-time versus stored communication (e.g.
  voicemail)
• User to user versus user to vendor or multi-party
• Hosted versus owned
• Value add proposition
• Target niche marketing and pricing

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VoIP Product Landscape .

• Free World Dialup (www.pulver.com/fwd) (see also
  SIPPhone)
• Dialpad (www.dialpad.com) (see also iConnectHere)
• Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) (see also Linux
  VoIP projects)
• Xbox, XP, Messenger
• AOL (www.aol.com) (see also Yahoo Messenger)
• Skype (www.skype.com) (see also PalTalk)
• Net2phone
• Intl (web.net2phone.com/consumer) Cable
  (web.net2phone.com/cable)
• Vonage (www.vonage.com) (see also 8x8, voiceglo)
• Time Warner Cable (www.timewarnercable.com) (see
  also Cox, Comcast, Cablevision)
• Cisco (www.cisco.com) (see also Avaya, Nortel,
  Alcatel)
• SpectraLink (www.spectralink.com) (see also
  Symbol, pulverInnovations)
• Level3 (www.level3.com/2191.html)
• eDial (www.edial.com)
• CBeyond (www.cbeyond.net)
• JetBlue (www.jetblue.com)
• Dartmouth (see www.telesym.com)
• Inflexion Communications (www.ifxc.com)
• ITXC (www.itxc.com) (see also iBasis)

Submitted Petition FCC
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Daniel Berninger

• Independent technology analyst
• www.danielberninger.com dan_at_danielberninger.com
• 202.250.3428
• Focus - regulatory technical aspects VoIP
• Experience - Active in VoIP since inception in
  1995. Bell Labs, VocalTec Communications,
  pulver.com
• Worked on founding of ITXC, Vonage, and FWD
• Book project - Intercommunication - communication
  without a telephone company.
• www.intercommunication.org
• Telecom antitrust enforcement
• www.brokentrust.org