SMEs seem, at least according to one projection by Infotech, to be getting the message on hosted and premises-based business phone services. Adoption rates are tracking large enterprise deployments pretty closely, after initially trailing. There's growing evidence that prices also are getting more interesting as well, in large part because premises-based systems are becoming more affordable, thanks to Asterisk and other open source platforms, as well as suppliers such as Samsung staking out new price point terrain.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
SME Business VoIP Uptick
SMEs seem, at least according to one projection by Infotech, to be getting the message on hosted and premises-based business phone services. Adoption rates are tracking large enterprise deployments pretty closely, after initially trailing. There's growing evidence that prices also are getting more interesting as well, in large part because premises-based systems are becoming more affordable, thanks to Asterisk and other open source platforms, as well as suppliers such as Samsung staking out new price point terrain.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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