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purchase: SyPixx, an analog to digital video surveillance firm.
integration: SIP, session initiation protocol for all cisco VoIP devices.

Does this signal a move to integraded video-voice communication over ip for mass teleconferencing? VoIP has a way to go standards-wise but I'm seeing non-SIP enabled VoIP phones around work at school, and at the mall.

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the COT is 100% VoIP Cisco Phones, but that's the only place i've seen them.

no, it doesn't signal such a move.

and voip phones are everywhere. talk about huge call centers or huge buildings with hundreds of sales reps.

Albertsons in the heights has VoIP cisco phones.

oh, and i have one.

how do you have it set up?

i don't have it set up. I just have a phone.

the COT staff isn't all that impressed with VoIP. their biggest issue is the amount of bandwidth it takes up and also the QoS issues.

gigabit switches aren't that expensive. most voip seems to stay in-house. i don't see the problem.

well when you have to convert your whole infrastructure to cat6 and any switches at the enterprise level are pretty expensive, esp. for a school's budget. i can imagine it adds up pretty quick, not to mention the downtime while converting.

sorry, i hit post before i was done.
now add on to that initial latency with video transmissions as well? it's gonna hurt your lines. personally i think they need to shrink the header and maybe encrypt it, right now it's basically unencrypted xml traffic that could be captured and heard. and i know, encryption is going to increase latency but i still think it's important.