Complex trade-offs must be made.
Most legacy systems segregate voice, data, and video conferencing capabilities.
Some claim that significant economic efficiencies can be realized by integrating voice, data, and video terminals and transmission facilities. Others believe that the price of such integration will be sacrifices in performance relative to more specialized facilities, or the addition of costly layers of complexity to network management processes and protocols. Back to the Top Industrial Organization Digital convergence is already provoking a major upheaval in the organization of the industries involved in information, communications, and media. Horizontal mergers among telecommunication carriers, nationally and internationally, are changing the shape of the industry. Convergence is also leading to the dissolution of traditional industry boundaries.