VoIP Sabotage > This is probably going to cause problems.

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Re: If the sky falls, can I hide on your property?

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Forecast: 15 million-plus cable VoIP subs by '09

Jeff Baumgartner, CED

U.S. and Canadian MSOs will have more than 15 million IP telephony subs and capture more than $15 billion in revenue from incumbent telcos over the next five years, predicts Kinetic Strategies Inc., in a new study.

That, in turn, will create a market opportunity exceeding $3 billion for VoIP vendors, the research firm added.

Kinetic Strategies also predicted that North American MSOs will add more VoIP subs than high-speed data customers during that span.

"After years of false starts, North American cable operators are finally poised to capture a meaningful share of the local and long distance telephone services market by leveraging IP technology," said Kinetic Strategies President and Principal Analyst Michael Harris, in a release. "Cable operators already serve more than 2.5 million local telephone customers in North America using legacy circuit-switched technology. The industry's move to IP will reduce deployment costs while spurring application innovation."

Although best-effort, SIP-based services from companies such Vonage, AT&T and Verizon can work over any broadband connection, Kinetic notes that their quality and reliability "are often flimsy" when compared to the QoS-capable VoIP services cable operators can offer via managed PacketCable networks that sidestep the public Internet.

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