NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
08/10/05
Today's focus: Why proprietary protocols are not necessarily
bad
Dear networking.world@gmail.com,
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* Commenting on a reader's challenge of vendors' commitment to
open standard VoIP
* Links related to Convergence
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Today's focus: Why proprietary protocols are not necessarily
bad
By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Last time, one of our readers challenged VoIP market leaders
Cisco, Nortel and Avaya on their commitment to open standard,
cost-effective VoIP solutions. Today, we'd like to add our
observations and next week we'll hear directly from the vendors
with their reply to our reader's query.
First, we contend that proprietary protocols are not necessarily
bad, provided they are contained within a single enterprise
network. In fact, proprietary protocols may actually offer more
features or network efficiency than standards-based protocols.
And many network managers might tend to agree, if market share
is any indicator. For example, vendors like Nortel and Avaya
have maintained and continued to sell proprietary PBX software
for years, yet they continue to be market share leaders in some
markets.
Where we believe our reader has a point is when it comes to
network-to-network proprietary network protocols that have to
interoperate - something the protocols certainly must do when
connecting two different private, multi-vendor networks or when
connecting to a public networks like the public switched
telephone network (PSTN) or the Internet.
If history is any indicator, the PSTN operators will force some
level of open-standards compliance on vendors that build private
network components otherwise the PSTN can't operate to connect
the private network elements. For example, going back to the
early days of ISDN, many vendors' switches didn't work together,
but the carriers forced the competitors to work out a solution
or risk being excluded from public network connectivity.
We believe the VoIP market has reached that historical reference
point as carriers begin to use and to offer more feature-rich
VoIP-based services. As vendors achieve better open-standards
compliance and interoperability becomes more transparent, we
believe that prices for VoIP network elements will drop because
customers will be less dependent on single-vendor suppliers for
their enterprise-based VoIP.
We're looking forward to getting the vendors' perspective
directly in our next issue.
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
1. New York courts find security in IP video
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-ip-video.html?t5>
2. Microsoft settles with 'Spam King' for $7 million
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence4750>
3. German bank launches new system to combat phishing
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence4751>
4. Anti-spyware firm warns of massive ID theft ring
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080505-id-theft.html?t5>
5. Crashing the 'Net
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/080805buzz.html?t5>
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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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