Certification Magazine - September 2007 - (Page 9) Steven Ostrowski, CompTIA director of corporate communications, said this certification keeps pace with the movement of all communication toward one conduit. “The trend seems to be that everything is eventually going to be carried over your IP network,” Ostrowski said. When CompTIA began developing Convergence+, it discovered somewhat of a skill shortage in this area. “What we found, when we started developing the certification two years ago, is that there were a number of people who knew how to hook a data network together, link the PCs to the servers and connect them all in a LAN or a WAN or a wireless plan or whatever it happened to be, but when they were asked to do the voice element and put that on top of the data, they didn’t have the experience to deal with telephony and voice issues,” Ostrowski said. “On the other hand, there were a lot of telephony people out there who could hook up phone networks but were stumped when it came time to doing the To learn more about Convergence+ and other convergence certifications, just type the term into CertScope, CertMag.com’s search engine. You will find hundreds of articles and Web sites discussing the topic. voice-over IP and putting the voice over the same data network. “So, that’s where the skills are converging. You have to have your feet in both camps. You have to have ability to do both the data network and add the voice element on top.” Convergence+ aims to create more IT professionals with such a blended skill set and not a moment too soon — according to global connectivity research firm Yankee Group, the voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) market for small- and medium-sized businesses is expected to reach more than $1 billion by 2009. 8 – Daniel Margolis, dmargolis@certmag.com http://www.CertMag.com http://www.wgu.edu/cm14 http://www.wgu.edu/cm14
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