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Stanford VoIP

Our educational brethren at Stanford University are deploying fully-converged, full-featured Cisco Voice-over-IP, including

Stanford has moved from an analog, apparently carrier-based offering, to Nortel VoIP, and now to Cisco VoIP, and continues to support all three. This looks like a great voice communications package for university faculty and staff. Kudos, Stanford!

Maybe not

Maybe VoIP adoption in EDU isn’t slowing down just yet. The VoIP and Gadgets blog pointed to this article about the University of Cambridge, British Telecom and Cisco teaming up to install an IP solution for 20,000 phones.

As Penn State gets closer to its deployment goal of around 16,000 phones, it’s nice to know that there are some other big EDU players going with Cisco.

Has EDU VoIP adoption stalled out?

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?