However, there is more to convergence than just having both voice and data on your mobile phone. In the kick off to the Network and Telecom Strategies track of the Burton Group Catalyst Conference, Research Director Dave Passmore suggests five areas of network convergence for the future. As the quality of the public interent increases and costs of bandwidth decrease, new possibilities open for networking and convergence.
In the coming years, watch for a merging of wired and wireless networks, including bundling of complete connectivity services. Prepare for a shift from enterprise Wide Area Networks to the public internet, and expect voice over IP to converge with other real-time collaboration tools such as instant messaging and video conferencing. As networks become more integrated, enterprise will have to take a more holisitc approach to networking.
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Dave Passmore is Burton Group's research director in the area of networking and telecom. Mr. Passmore is a thought-leader in network architecture, known for his creation of the firm's reference architecture as well as extensive work in architecture consulting for service providers and large enterprises. He founded NetReference, Inc. (which merged with Burton Group in 1999), and as a vice president managed Gartner's wide-area and local-area network analyst services. Mr. Passmore also served as a partner and one of the original members of Ernst & Young's Center for Information Technology and Strategy, and was one of the founders of Network Strategies, Inc (acquired by Ernst & Young). He has been a technical advisory board member for dozens of network startup companies, and regularly consults for multiple networking equipment and software vendors.
Mr. Passmore is currently conference chairman of Next Generation Networks (NGN) and co-chair of the NGN Policy conference; he previously served on the program committee for Networld+Interop. Mr. Passmore has been recognized as being one of the top six consultants in the entire IT industry, featured in an Information Week cover story on "Hot Consultants." He was listed as one of the "most influential industry analysts" by Technology Marketing magazine, and named as one of the 50 "most powerful" people in networking by Network World.
He writes a regular monthly column on network architecture for Business Communications Review magazine. Mr. Passmore has BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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