IP Convergence 2008: Convergence of IP Services is Finally Coming True
	by Laurent Gou, Director Operational Marketing

It has been a long time in the making, but now convergence of IP architectures has become a reality. The user’s dreams are finally coming true, since it is now possible to manage and interact between various media (data, voice, image, etc.) as he or she sees fit, and also switch easily between personal and professional universes. New kinds of usage are also available: communications combined on a single terminal, video conferencing, centralized address book, and more.

Why did convergence take so long to find its way into corporate culture? There are at least two explanatory factors:

• IT departments (and others, too), were once organized in clusters (one team per medium: voice – data – image); they must now come to terms with a multimedia universe by pooling their resources and finding a new operating organization.
• the technological building blocks are finally all available: internet rich applications, web 2.0, maturity of voice over IP solutions, rapid dissemination of PDAs, and so on.

Of course in this context of convergence, the “convergent” service is the corporate nerve center, and is therefore absolutely vital. Setting up an architecture capable of guaranteeing very high service availability with satisfactory response times is indispensable. ip-label.newtest can assist you in measuring and checking the performance of the solution deployed by your company.