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Will VoIP Kill the PBX?

Posted by michael on from the asterisk-and-obelix dept.

gManZboy writes "Following up on their last VoIP article, Queue just posted "Not Your Father's PBX?" from Jim Coffman at Avaya Labs. Looks like the PBX may survive, but it's going to have to evolve considerably. I guess eventually corporate telecom goes away as a kind of island in the MIS dept? Maybe that's already happened?"

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  1. You mean Telcom and MIS are seperate jobs?? by suckass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geez, and I've been doing both all these years. Don't I feel screwed...

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  2. I told them so by ewg · · Score: 2, Funny

    This story's headline fills me with a faint form of Schadenfreude:

    IP telephony is the technology I pitched to my company's management, when they saddled me with thankless chore of upgrading our decrepit digital key system.

    PBX is what they ended up buying.

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  3. Re:Uh huh. by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...look at the simple office copying machine..."

    coughcoughBizHubcoughcough

    I love those commercials.

  4. Re:Uh huh. by aonifer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who actually uses the copier anymore? For that matter the FAX machine?

    People who still live on planet Earth.