SIP will reside in your cell phone, your PC (In XP ALREADY), in your busines phone system, in your cable box, in your home security system, in you video security system, in your home automation system. SIP is not a telephoney standard. It is a multi-media standard that is a disruptive technology. If you are a small interconnect, get to know SIP now. It will be the technology that brings down the price of IP phone systems, to the level of standard digital systems. IT IS NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME. That is the good news. Why? because it buys you some time. If you have not gotten your feet wet with IP, learn SIP first. What's wrong with it right now? Not that many features, sound quality can be an issue, off site SIP stations need VPN tunnels on most systems I've hear of, reliability. However, system software upgrades will show up within weeks of each other in some cases to fix bugs and add features. Other major features will include multiline business phones with DSS/BLF and line appearances, unified messaging, web based user interface for phone programming, collaberative work group tools, software based video PC phones (softphones).

Here's a thought "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles Duell, Dir. US Patent Office, 1899

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