Two of my favorite Google searches are “site:edu voip blog” and the simpler “site:edu voip“. The first search helps me find edu-people (faculty and staff) who might be blogging about VoIP. There aren’t many. The second search just looks through all of .edu for the term “VoIP.”
Maybe I need to add some more parameters to my search, but what I’m finding is a whole lot of the same old. If universities are moving to VoIP, their web sites aren’t reflecting it. And I wish some of my counterparts at other universities would share their thoughts in blogs.
While I’m complaining, I’ll also mention that Internet2’s SIP.edu also seems to be quite stale.
Higher ed and related research institutions and committees invented much of the Internet as we know it today. Is the current generation of higher ed/research doing the same thing with VoIP?
Hey Bill,
I’ve actually seen a different picture over the last year or two; more and more colleges and universities are making the switch to VoIP. What’s actually more interesting are the different types of systems and set-up they are using.
No longer is it center on Cisco, Nortel and Avaya; colleges and universities are using open source, open source based, Microsoft OCS/Lync and I’ve even seen a few spin their own platforms.
Now, whether they are all talking about it publicly or not, that’s another thing.