The Importance of Pipes

Google (s goog) is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice, Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, said today on eWeek.com , and will move aggressively next year to further blur the line between telephony and the Internet. Which means network operators will have to find ways to leverage their networks and provide competing apps and services or be relegated to simply pushing other companies’ offerings through their pipes. Google is gearing up to do battle with Cisco (s csco) and Microsoft (s msft) in the unified communications market

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The Importance of Pipes