With the final days of 2007 fast approaching, many in the telecommunications industry are looking ahead to a new year and all the developments it might hold. And whenever predictions take shape, it’s a sure thing that industry-specific acronyms can’t be far behind.

 

For example, during a recent conversation with TMCnet, Todd Landry, Senior Vice President at Sphere Communications (News - Alert), said he thinks 2008 will be the year for what he called “Service Oriented Communications” (SOC)—the next evolutionary step when you combine unified communications (UC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

 

Landry defined SOC as what happens “when you take all the methods and capabilities available to people in business for communicating with one another, build a system that enables them to use those tools, then open up those capabilities for integration in a Service Oriented Architecture.”