Trains, Planes, Automobiles, Boats and Cloud Computing

November 26, 2012 Off By David

Grazed from TelecomReseller. Author: Jeff Owen.

I’m a member of several online discussion groups so get regular updates on a variety of topics. One conversation that has been going on for awhile was started with this question, “I hear a lot about the cloud and cloud computing. Can someone explain to me what that is?” This came from a telecommunications professional within a discussion group for same. It got me thinking that some of our readers may be asking the same question, and we should provide an answer.

This is a natural question coming from someone either new to the profession or unfamiliar with data communications and nuances of emerging technologies. As a telephony professional or vendor, you may be asking why this is important to you. My answer is simple. The day of separate telecommunications or network disciplines is rapidly disappearing…

More than a decade ago VoIP was just the beginning of consolidating and converging voice and data into fewer systems requiring less support personnel and technologies. We used to think of convergence in terms of multiplexing separate voice, data and video signals onto one T1 or T3 circuit. Today we’re packetizing and mixing all this and more into one communications path. We’re also encouraging this convergence via adoption of unified communications and presence.

So, what is the cloud and cloud computing?…

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