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posted 07-21-2006 02:12 AM
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Hi.

My corporate office had a almost a brand new PBX system that is maybe 1 year old. Its pretty much the state of the art system with VOIP capabilities. It does everything the company needs and more without any problems.

The company hired a new tech guy who said that we should trash the PBX system so he can build us a Asterisk system instead.

Do you guys thing this is a good idea?

Take the "new" guy aside and tell him he's full of it. Your PBX ain't broke and he isn't the telephone guru.

Let him build an asterisk on his own time.


I am not sure what advantage the company would get from the asterisk box over my regular phone system (especially when it runs everything my company need just fine)

However this guy insist that we need to “ Upgrade to Asterisk” however I’m not sure if that would really be an upgrade or more of a downgrade.?

Run this past the controller. Tell him you want to toss all the phones and PBX into the dumpster and buy a new phone system to make the new employee happy.

When he's done laughing, move on to the next project.

Carl