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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."
You are a complete fucktard.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
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.