In facing of the declining revenue of traditional voice service, all of the global telecom service providers are actively developing the new potential markets and more applications, particularly in the areas of broadband network and ICT integration applications. Each company is launching various kinds of network services and new communication products to increase their own competitive advantages and to add its value for survival in business. In this essay, we will explore the trend of convergence of video, voice and data for the development of triple play services. We also get the overview of how digital life is influenced by the trend. In addition, we will introduce Asterisk, Openfire and Red5 which are the development kits of open source. Then, the cross-platform triple play services can be realized by adopted their respective advantages to develop the flash web call and video conferencing, and more unified communication functions.
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