Big news in the Wall Street Journal (must be big!) - Skype gets SIP. Picked up on GigaOM, it looks as if the service is in limited Beta initially. Combined with OCS recent SIP capabilities and even Digium getting in on the game (i.e. count Asterisk in), that means Enterprise VoIP is getting even more an more [...]

Microsoft Office communications Server is going from strength to strength, building on its SIP capabilities,with last week’s OCS R2 launch. Features now include Attendant, ACD and SIP trunking support.
TechNet is hosting a session that will cover the Voice Capabilities in Office Communication Server 2007 R2 features on March 11th at 4pm (thanks to Eileen’s blog for the heads [...]

Voice services player Viatel warns that over half (54%) of small businesses are staying away from VoIP because of concerns about their broadband connectivity. A study of 200 SMB’s commissioned by Viatel states that unless cost, reliability and performance issues are solved, converged services (including VoIP) are likely to remain the preserve of the enterprise.
54% of those surveyed said that [...]

It looks like carriers are slowing their VoIP spending, according to figures released by Infonetics Research (this will affect folks like Tellabs and Sonus Networks). VoIP Monitor runs with more on the report:
Large RBOCs and ILECs are scaling back on VoIP equipment purchases, helping bring down the worldwide service provider VoIP market 8% sequentially to $816 million [...]

Via Rich Tehrani’s blog last week: “Sonus CTO Leaves for Tellabs” - Sonus CTO, Vikram Saksena is now with Tellabs (press release). He became CTO for Sonus at the beginning of last year (press release). 
“Vikram possesses deep knowledge of the telecommunications industry and extensive experience guiding technology strategy in next-generation IP architectures. He is the [...]