Christopher Scott, Principal Owner, StratoNet

“Fifteen years ago, these were the longstanding big dogs in the voice CPE market: Nortel, Mitel, NEC, Avaya, Toshiba, Cisco and ShoreTel. Over those fifteen years, not one of those companies executed a cloud migration particularly well; in most cases fatally so.”

Scott added: “And it’s not like voice services moving to the cloud was not foreseeable, even unavoidable. Stepping back and evaluating causes for this massive industry failure is a story unto itself. Ultimately, the victims were the shareholders, and they may also have been the cause. But that’s probably not the whole story.”