ABSTRACT

Organizations have been attempting to develop business cases that would show some short-term financial benefit for a conversion to IPv6. Such business cases may be difficult to develop in the immediate future, reminiscent of the desire for a business case to validate a move to VoIP in the late 1990s. However, at this juncture it is clear that VoIP is less expensive compared to traditionally priced telephony

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with built-in 20th century sociophilosophical pricing fee structures1 and may be less costly when one considers the possibility of unified messaging and computertelephony integration.