It's The Telephone Showdown: RBOCs vs. CAPs
This is the time of year when I usually find myself thinking about progress, or the lack of it, over the past year. This time, however, I found myself feeling optimistic about the new year and the progress that lays in wait in the coming months. CMP Network Computing
ReadIs There A CTI Server Looming In Your Future?
For all the discussion about video conferencing and other multimedia applications,the core business media remain voice, data and fax. Yet Computer TelephonyIntegration (CTI), the merger of voice and data on the network, is havingrelatively little impact on the mass market (see "CTI Rides Again,"November 1, page 39). History repeats itself in our business. The originalIBM PC was open enough to provide for multivendor competition. The adoptionof 10BASE-T allowed the LAN market to grow. Now the question for CTI iswhat will open up the telephony infrastructure to an equivalent scale ofmultivendor competition? CMP Network Computing
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