Networking World: Five years of convergence

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
07/11/05
Today's focus: Five years of convergence

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Today's focus: Five years of convergence

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

The success of a television series is often measured by whether
or not it has lasted five years, because after five years the
series is guaranteed to go into syndication - and with
syndication comes years of residual income from countless reruns
of the show. So today we'd like to announce that (by television
standards) our Convergence Newsletter has reached a milestone.
Next week we celebrate this newsletter's five-year anniversary.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank Network World
for their continued support, to thank the newsletter's sponsors
for their continued advertising, and most of all, thank our
readers for their kind attention and many words of constructive
criticism and encouragement.

Although we might wish now we'd negotiated our contract with
Network World for years of reruns and residual income, we
promise not to rest on the 500 or so "past episodes" of
Convergence newsletters. However, we would like to use the next
several editions as a retrospective to see what has changed -
and what hasn't - with convergence in our five-year history.

To begin the retrospective, in our first week's newsletter we
introduced the four faces of convergence: premises convergence,
access convergence, network convergence and services
convergence. We defined:

* Premises convergence as the melding of voice and data on a
  common device, such as a PC, phone or router.
* Access convergence as broadband or multiservice access media
  like DSL, cable modem technology and wireless broadband.
* Network convergence as the integration of data and voice
  networks' transport and signaling infrastructures in a carrier's
  core network.
* Services convergence as the marriage of applications and
  multiple services bundled as a single option.

Either by consulting magic or by dumb luck, we're happy to
report that these four faces continue to represent and broadly
define the principal aspects of convergence. Next time, we'll
talk about how each has evolved in ways that we couldn't even
imagine five years ago.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Feature: The ROI of VoIP
Network World, 07/11/05
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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
<mailto:taylor@webtorials.com>

Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com>
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Five years of convergence

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