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IP Telephony is deploying more rapidly than the predictions of even the most optomistic enthusiasts of a year ago. The strong opportunities opened by deregulation, coupled with the perceived strengths of the IP Telephony model, have encouraged CLEC's and other new players to embrace IP Telephony for it's ability to lever them into the market with lower infrastructure costs and cheaper carriage. In the long run IP Telephony promises the technology base most likely to support the rapid development and deployment of new services needed to drive industry growth. Accompanying this growth is a shift from the early industry focus on enterprise deployment for thousands of users to a new focus on building carrier grade installations that will support several orders of magnitude more calls.
In 1980 Jim Wright left an academic background in speech synthesis and perception at the University of California to follow a series of startups in the area of voice services. In 1989 Jim joined the precursor of SunLabs at Sun Microsystems to investigate the integration of voice and audio into UNIX. Subsequently he introduced SunXTL, a telephony call management platform for Solaris and he has led the Java Telephony API effort. Currently Jim is working in the area of carrier grade voice IP services at Sun.
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