| Why VoIP and IPV should be managed on the same platform Today, we'll focus again on video over IP (or what we call IPV) based on a recent discussion with Psytechnics about the deployment parallels we find between IPV and VoIP/IP Telephony. Psytechnics VP Marketing Joe Frost shared his thoughts on why VoIP and IPV should be managed on the same platform using common tools and evaluative metrics like MOS (Mean Opinion Score), along with some of the challenges in a common approach to session management. 2009 marks tipping point for IP video This week, we turn our focus back to video over IP (or what we call IPV) starting today with some insights provided by Vince Graziani, CEO of VBrick Systems. VBrick started to offer IPV in 1997, and has over 60,000 video appliances and products installed with over 5,000 customers. In a recent interview, Graziani shared his views about the increasing need to engineer corporate networks for video first and data second. He also shared a user case story to illustrate the business case for IPV. 2009 will be the year of IP video One of our predictions for 2009 was that the B2B demand for video over IP would grow this year. We'd like to expand on the topic and will look to cover IP video more extensively this year. This week, we'll begin with a few definitions, throw in a few data points about the growth of IP video, discuss business video encounters experienced in person, follow up with some viewpoints from Cisco and AT&T, and finally we'll sprinkle in our usual analysis and observations. Top 10 predictions for VoIP and convergence in 2009 We've got to admit that making predictions for 2009 is a little tougher than usual given today's economic challenges and uncertainty, but we're willing to give it a shot provided our readers are willing to understand our perspectives come with less optimism than we normally project. Given the disclaimer, here are our Top 10 predictions for VoIP and convergence in 2009 ... Open source PBXs make corporate gains; how much is up for debate The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks. AT&T makes $1 billion '09 network investment AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on rolling out more business applications such as managed hosting, content delivery and telepresence. NTT Makes Big Gains in U.S. Markets Nickasch: NTT, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation is growing their U.S. presence, and fast. While initially situated in Japanese local telco, data/IP/voice, and mobile markets, the company continues their global growth, rising to the number three spot of the world's top telecom companies by revenue. Managing the OCS 2007 R2 Edge Server OCS 2007 R2 no longer installs the management tools by default for any server role. Creating custom ring tones for Communications Manager Express (CME) What's a phone system if it can't support fancy ring tones? Even .wav sounds can be converted to become CME ring tones. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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