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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm with you on this. A VoIP trunking
solution is never going to equal a LEC PSTN solution. It may be adequate
for some purposes, but I'm not about to dump my BRI for a pair of IP
numbers. The trade-offs aren't worth the small cost savings for me.
Just the packetized delays (not to mention internet latency) are going to
degrade things somewhat. Your example about FAX is a good one. Yes,
there are work-arounds, but when you have customers to keep happy, meeting their
expectations in an intuitive manner is critical. OTOH, I certainly like
the idea of an open source PABX doing my internal routing. I've done some
stuff with commercial PABXs that few people would attempt. I've also
failed to do things because the PABX OS didn't support what I wanted to
do. That's one reason I once wrote my own.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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