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Article in the latest PC Magazine on how wonderful VoIP is.... The print version of this article has this headline; "Smart Businesses Use VoIP" :rolleyes: LINK
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Yeah, well look at the products they reviewed, they are all junk!
Jeff Moss
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What it should say is "It is smart for some businesses to use VOIP" The thing is that it is getting more and more smart for businesses to go to VOIP.
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The key word is some, not all.
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"Smart businesses repair or replace VoIP."
Hundreds of small to medium telecom installation and repair businesses are thriving, due to an upsurge in faulty and disappointing VoIp installations that need attention."
Heck, I could write the whole article, if I weren't so busy fighting with Cablevision.
Arthur P. Bloom
"30 years of faithful service...15 years on hold"
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Yup that was my point, that is why I put SOME between the for and business
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Yay!! Seriously though, from my experience as CG, it's not us that's the culprits, just clueless business people who skim over PC Mag and similar, and then come barging in demanding to know "Why we don't have this!?!?"
On the other hand though, I think the writing is on the wall. Telcos, ISPs, Cable providers etc etc have made tremendous (and recent) investments on packet nets, and IP protocol-type nets and equipment specifically. Last-mile/in-premises IP is just a logical extension, as is last-mile/in-premises fiber.
When I started in IT in the 70s, the older Mainframe guys were absolutely bewildered that somebody would trust their business on a DEC VAX MiniComputer. They had spent 20-year-odd careers bringing their "Big Iron" to "five-nines-reliability" (system up 99.999% of the time), and now somebody was gonna toss this away because the new system it was cheaper, smaller and "sexier"?
As a technical person, I now understand their frustration. As a person, I also understand the flaw in their thinking.
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Well the netgear router/switch are decent. FVS338 router and FS728TP switch by the looks of it. That's the switch I use in my builds, or the FS752TP (48 10/100 POE + 2 GBE + 2 GBE/GBIC). Been better if it was the dual-wan FVS124G. Like anyone is really going to hook up a modem to that supplied router's serial port for "back-up internet".
Cant vouch for the avaya wonder-box or phones tho.
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