[herodoturtle]

Agreed. And I'd hope that their plan B of "get the whole team on Hangouts" isn't met with connection / auth issues. Kinda feel bad for the googlers. Hope they get this right.

[marcan_42]

When I was there they had an IRC network for this reason. I hope they still do. Not quite the same as VoIP but fewer dependencies...

[kuschku]

That's why the network folks at Google and AWS use IRC for just that purpose. Simple, no external dependencies, just works.