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IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE to anyone that this week's Computer Telephony Expo will emphasize IP and the Internet.
Experts expect IP telephony products and voice switches that run on NT and support the IP protocol to be pervasive.
Jim Burton, president of CT Link, a St. Helena, Calif.-based consultant, said support for voice over IP is different from previous times when vendors lined up behind other technologies, such as ISDN and ATM, that did not exactly pan out.
The difference, he said, are the levels of support for IP shown by the data communications and computer companies.
"It's now up to the telecommunications industry to offer its share of solutions," Burton said.
Among the products to be unveiled or demonstrated here this week are Windows NT-based call...