Survey Sez 07/17/12

A Siemens Enterprise Communications study says HD voice is superior to IP telephony quality. In an interactive multimedia simulation, audio samples were provided in various user scenarios, including both ‘standard’ quality and Siemens Enterprise Communications’ AudioPresence HD…According to a Sonus Networks Inc. global study on SIP trends, while VoIP is a fully mature technology within corporate networks for intra-company communications, SIP trunking, by contrast, is still in the early stages of deployment. The growing trend has large enterprises deploying SIP trunking as a way to reduce telecom bills by as much as 75 percent…Maravedis-Rethink believes that, during the next three years, the M2M market will shift from being vertically focused and often incompatible solutions to platforms and standards that can be used across many sectors. This, in turn, will lay the foundation for the “Internet of Things,” expected to be one of the biggest growth drivers for the device supply chain and for service providers in the second half of this decade.