[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony

[Steve Kennedy]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0700, George Pajari wrote:

> http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0607faceoffyes.html

There are very valid arguments in the contra argument. If you have
existing equipment it's all about integration. Traditional telcos are
moving to VoIP as are enterprise players and SMBs (small to medium
businesses) etc. It may be OK for a small business to replace what
they've got, get a "techie" in to maintain it etc, but that doesn't
work at the large side of things.

There's also provisioning and other such matters to worry about. If
you're a small player again that can be a manual process, or even maybe
web based. If you're a larger player, you'll have existing systems in
place and provisioning processes in place and any new devices have to
fit into these processes.

For * to really take off, it does need management interfaces etc.


Steve (IMHO of course)

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