Scott Bradner, University Technology Security Officer, Harvard University and John Gallant, President and Editorial Director of Network World join me in our first industry roundtable. We discuss the reality of Web Services/SOA and how the IP Telephony vendors (Avaya, Cisco, Siemens, Nortel, Mitel) are using it. The discussion of VoiceCon drove us to E-911 open issues with Scott providing an IETF update on what the group is doing to help solve this important industry issue. VoiceCon also brought SIP to light as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, et al are embracing it and now pushing Cisco into SIP acceptance with Call Manager 5.0. ShoreTel made it to the discussion, thanks to its strong showing at VoiceCon. Juniper was next and we talked about its enterprise strategy and weighed in on its pros and cons. This led to a general discussion on Xorp or eXtensible Open Router Platform, Vyatta and its potential impact on Cisco and Juniper. John gives a sneak preview on next week�s Network World where they�ll cover the hot topic of IT pandemic planning, thanks to concerns over the avian flue, and the planned acquisition of BellSouth by at&t.
