EE Times reports on the emerging VoIP telephony market from Network Outlook conference in Burlingame, CA this week. According to the article, Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's general manager of switching, voice and carrier systems described the VoIP phone market as growing rapidly, with roughly “half of businesses . . . experimenting with VoIP and 10 percent [planning] to [convert] to IP telephony.”

“Consumers have to go to a PC today for IP telephony. [But wireless IP handsets are] “probably one of the next big opportunities we see to make this take off,” the article quotes Giancarlo as saying.

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