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Pingtel Open Source VoIP Debuts in Europe
jasperbg writes "The Register has an interesting article on open-source VoIP provider Pingtel's debut in Europe. Pingtel is a commercial company which packages and sells products based on code from the SIPfoundry open source community."
Brilliant summary of the situation at hand!
Marky Mark Killed Jason Bourne!
What I like most about "Revenge Of Teh Shit" is that "General" Jah-Jah Bincks gets his fucking niggeresqe face kicked in by Anni.
An employee suggested to me that we load VOIP in a few offices here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day teleconferencing. So I decided to let him install the VOIP (Vonage I think) into 5 offices to see how the users got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using VOIP in his office and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client offices?
Once he'd got the machines up and running with VOIP we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Vonage was a pretty good replacement for regular service and the users could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to (like 911 service!) or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with the land line. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the VOIP suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site and corrupted his conference call.
Needless to say, the VOIP team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove Vonage from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
With THOUSANDS of T0 avoid so as to with the work, or of Walnut Crrek,