They don t care about technology. They are concerned about whether the quality is as good, and is the price less. A pair of workstations for administrative and routing functions rounds out the trial system. Coblitz expects the trial to develop into a full market trial, with hundreds of users, and eventually lead to full deployment with thousands of customers. In the meantime, using circuit-switched technology is another way to build from strength.
Revenues come in, and experience builds.
The concept seems to be working. In San Diego, Cox has a penetration rate of about 9 percent of homes passed and is doing even better in areas where it has been established longer as a telephony service provider. Although the company has said it will be trialing IP telephony in selected markets this year, it also is evaluating circuit-switched telephony access solutions from ADC, Arris Interactive and Tellabs and continuing with that technology for service implementations in the markets it has gained with its acquisitions. With flexibility, the future is bright Most predictions indicate that cable telephony subscribers will increase exponentially over the next five years. Other projections indicate that the number of minutes of calls processed by IP telephony switching also will increase rapidly during the same period.