Cisco: the VoWiFi Dark Horse?

A week old article from IT World Canada about the lack of standards in the VoWiFi space had some interesting thoughts on the VoWiFi space, but the most interesting thought of all was the notion that Cisco, of all players, had the best VoWiFi ecosystem of any enterprise communications company. This was an interesting thought because Cisco has been especially quite in the space, opting to focus much of their next generation communications efforts on video with their Telepresence technology.

Does this mean that VoWiFi is a dog? If Cisco is not making a strong push into this market, given it’s close proximity to VoIP, networking and unified communications (three of their larger pushes) is it a signal that it is a “weak” market with little consumer demand?

I for one don’t think the VoWiFi is a dog, but the technology certainly is not yet there. It is not very user friendly or reliable and we won’t talk about the cost associated with a proper deployment. However, given the existing technology that Cisco possesses it is intriguing that they have yet to make a strong move.

Given the buzz surrounding mobile voip and Fixed Mobile Convergence one would think that they would be doing more. Are they simply a VoWiFi dark horse? Or have they left the technology in the stable because they don’t think it has legs?