The Is-VoIP-Dead debate goes on, and it’s performing a valuable public service by making us all re-examine what VoIP was, what it is now, and how it fits into the AoIP (Applications over IP) concept that Steve Parrott talked about on January 19. More...

Steve Parrott made lots of good points in his blog entry about the VoIP-is-Dead Debate, but I’d like to focus on one comment in Om Malik’s original GigaOM posting quoting Alec Saunders on VoIP. Saunders characterized VoIP this way: “Voice over IP is just a transport and signaling technology. It’s plumbing.” More...

The blogosphere has been buzzing about whether VoIP is dead, ever since Alec Saunders posted 2008: The Year that VoIP died on his blog, which lead to other posts, including a post by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog. Each has presented some interesting points though it’s a debate that I feel is missing the point. More...