[Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk a PBX?

[Melcon Moraes]

I was thinking smaller... just Communications Suite

Michael Collins wrote:
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>This question is confusing me for some time. From selling point of
> 
> view
> 
>>to a customer, calling asterisk a PBX doesn't look right. According to
>>the definitions of PBX or PABX, Asterisk is not just PBX but much more
>>than that. My question is, how should I introduce Asterisk to a
>>customer? I don't want to call it a PBX.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Zach A.
> 
> 
> Good question.  What does Cisco call their VoIP server product line?
> Maybe you could use a synonym of that.  It's hard to pin down what
> Asterisk "is" because it does so much.  Can't call it "just a PBX" and
> it's certainly more than a "VoIP server."  You can't even call it a
> "voice communications server" because it does more than that!  Is it a
> "Communications Server," or maybe a "telecom/datacom server?"  I can see
> it now, yet more acronyms!  How about this: Asterisk is an AVCS/DCS
> (kinda like CSU/DSU): Audio/Video Communications Server/Data
> Communications Server?  
> 
> We could have lots of fun with this one... :)
> 
> -MC
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