[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony

[Steve Underwood]

Steve Kennedy wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0700, George Pajari wrote:
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>>http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0607faceoffyes.html
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>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.
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>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.
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>For * to really take off, it does need management interfaces etc.
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This is the traditional view of telecoms in large organisations. However 
it seems in a lot of large companies they are dumping their existing 
telecoms wholesale for an IP solution, on a site by site basis,  as soon 
as the maintainence contract renewal comes around. It surprises me to 
see that, and maybe I have seen a very unrepresentative sample, but in 
some places it does appear to be happening. Of course, right now things 
like * do not have an adequate reputation to pick up much of that 
business. There is, however, a preparedness there for radical change.

Regards,
Steve