About VoIP Evolution

VoIP Evolution covers the innovative companies, services and technologies that are creating the future of voice and video communication. Its editor-in-chief, Robert Poe, was the main contributing editor for VoIP News for three years, until that site was folded into a more general business site.

The name reflects the fact that the VoIP revolution is over. VoIP never demolished the traditional phone business the way it was supposed to. Now the industry has entered a new, more realistic and ultimately more important phase. It is integrating IP voice and video technology with the traditional telephone network in myriad ways, to create imaginative and useful new ways of communicating by word and image.

Robert Poe, Editor-in-Chief

Robert Poe has been writing about technology, with an emphasis on telecommunications, in Asia and the U.S. for 25 years. He lived (and practiced karate) in Japan during the 1980s, writing about aircraft manufacturing, computers, semiconductors and telecommunications, among other things, while serving as Asia-Pacific bureau chief for two high-tech industry publications. He lived in Hong Kong in the mid-1990s, as a writer and editor-in-chief for electronics and telecommunications magazines. He has covered stories in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

In the late 1990s he worked for an undersea cable startup, and early this century was a staff writer with Business 2.0 magazine. He has written technology articles for Upside, Wired News, Slate and Investors Business Daily. He has also written occasional political articles. In recent years he has particularly focused on the startling new technologies and business models resulting from the merging of the Internet and the traditional telephone network.