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IBM To Run VoIP On Linux
hrhsoleil writes "Johnny Barnes, IBM's vice president of global IT solutions and standards, told attendees at a TechTarget conference this week that his company plans to migrate at least 80% of its more than 300,000 employees to voice over IP by 2008. The project will replace approximately 900 PBXs around the world with regional IP installations. IBM's server-based IP telephony platform is going to run on Linux."
IBM is replacing in-house PBX systems. The telcos will still get their money from PSTN and data trunks.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
OpenH323 for more info about VoIP PBX whatevers... or GnomeMeeting for a client so you can start getting your hands dirty now...
It's probably OpenH323. IBM is smart, they wouldn't bother to re-invent the wheel ... err ... gateway
You are a complete fucktard.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Heh. I use that codec pretty much daily on my linux box to do VOIP. My client of choice (which may tell something about my predelictions) is TeamSpeak - a smallish app that will teach you how to configure alsa, but once it works, it works well - decent sound quality right there with POTS, doesn't use much bandwidth at all - if it did, my ping would be high... not something a gamer will tolerate... and light footprint. But damn! You've gotta tweak with your mixer to get it working =]. And forget about using artsd. Forget artsd anyhow. But I digress.
It's a neat little client/server app. I recommend checking it out if you're curious.
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that his company plans to migrate at least 80% of its more than 300,000 employees to voice over IP by 2008. The project will replace approximately 900 PBXs around the world with regional IP installations. IBM's server-based IP telephony platform is going to run on Linux.
Pay attention: the primary news is about moving to VoIP. And a secondary remark is bout using Linux for it.
The parent point was about the primary part of the news: moving so many PBXs from PSTN to VoIP will cut the profit of PSTN providers, specifically from long distance calls. The questions is: what are they going to do about it? Do they afraid a potential death of "long distance call" industry?
Personally, I would appreciate the death of "long distance call" concept.
Less is more !
I work for Alcatel Belgium (I work on the SMC 5735 RADIUS Proxy, a part of the 5020 SoftSwitch), and I can assure you that quite a number of products run on Linux, for example our OmniPCXOffice products. And you might find even more in the future (can't comment on that).
Other companies provide Linux based solutions too. And why not ? It's just an operating system. The fact that the Telecom companies are choosing Linux just proves that Linux is very stable. The actual fact that it's free has nothing to do with it (the cost for a license would be an extremely small part in the TCO).
And no, it can't be downloaded for free, just because it's Linux. That the first question my friends alwasy ask. Most of the software is propriety, and often written for special hardware. And also extremly expensive ofcourse, otherwise who would pay for all those hundreds of engineers that are developing them ?
VoIP is NOT the same thing as IP Telephony, yet folks here seem to use it interchangeably. Is IBM doing one, the other, or both? It's impossible to tell from the post. Voice over IP is simply packetizing voice somewhere within the network, mostly likely between PBX's while the handsets stay traditional. IP Telephony means even the handsets talk IP and can packetize the voice. In other words, everything is IP. Please know the difference.
If a significant proportion of the profitable lines are abandoned in favour of voip, the teleco gets upset.
The poster obviously doesn't understand what enterprise VOIP is all about. Actually, there are two different things going on, and people often confuse the two.
In the not too distant past I was the architect for an IPTEL project. We eliminated 3 PBX'es in our 5 building campus and replaced it with a single IPTEL system. We have no PBX, our phones run on the same network as our data. Our data network is extremely redundant and high speed. Switched gigabit to the servers, switched 100 megabit to the end points, collapsed backbone layer 3 switching throughout. All core switches are redundant, all call manager servers are redundant, all voice mail servers are redundant.
Our PBX system was about 12 years old and needed to be replaced. Migrating to a converged solution cost us less than replacing and we moved to modern technology. Going forward over the next 5 to 10 years most business telephony will migrate to IPTel. We also use VOIP to route phonecalls within our campus. External calls, both in and out, come in on PSTN circuits, hit our gateway and then are pure IP from that point onwards. With QSIG and QoS our quality is just as good as any PBX system. That's the short term advantage. Also, short term, we have integrated our voice mail and our email. Employees can now receive and listen to voice mail in their groupware client (Outlook in our case) or they can listen to email via the voicemail system while on the road. We publish system alerts and the like directly to the phones via an XML browser capability on the telephones. We can converge voice and data into any application we want. Our CRM system will be completely integrated (voice and data) in about two more months.
This is what IBM and other enterprises want VOIP (more properly IPTEL) for, not for the PSTN reductions. They can already achieve that by routing phone calls on their global private network from PBX to PBX using VOIP technology. And they probably already do that.
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