Comments on: Everyone is a (VoIP) phone company

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You forgot the link:

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,1669673,00.asp

I’ve been meaning to comment on the Heinz / Wincanton Group part. Taking over an outside partner’s telecom services and putting VOIP on every desk is rather extreme. Using Asterisk, or even Cisco Call Manager, to add a VOIP trunk to their existing PBXs probably would have been cheaper and less disruptive.

By: Aswath

Aswath — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a simple evolution of Private line market segment: PL, (telephony) VPN, FR and now IP technology. Long time back, this leading telephony R&D lab used to have TIE lines between its different locations. Then one day they dismantled it because it is cheaper to use PSTN rather than maintaining the TIE trunks. So, if the only objective of Heinz is saving (granted not an insignificant) money, don’t wake me up; the carriers will catch up. But on the other hand, if they are using sophisticated terminals with rich user interface and user empowering applications, then I say, ��Right on��.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was interested in the story up to the point where it said they put there own fibre in. It would have been interesting if they were using the internet or some other spare network capacity of there own – but Fibre?

By: andrew monroe

andrew monroe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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