Let me correct myself. I said bye bye POTs lines, that should have read bye bye voice T1s. How many g729 calls can you stuff down a data T1? Money is the only thing holding this up.
Customer: I need more than 23 calls simultaneously. Telco: You need to buy more PRIs. Let's see, there is the loop charge, installation, 80/20 contract for a year or three... Thanks, Steve Steve Totaro wrote: > Soon is a very relative word. IP PBXs are already outselling key > systems. If you believe the Gartner Group, 2010 marks the end of the > key system. Relatively speaking, two and half years is not that long. > > "A recent Gartner Group report authored by Bern Elliot and Jeff Snyder > plotted out the IP future. "IP-enabled" (hybrid) systems have been > outselling TDM exchanges since 2003, and 2005 was the watershed for pure > IP PBX, surpassing traditional PBX in terms of "lines" shipped in North > America. By 2010, Gartner sees PBX sales being completely IP, "providing > the basis for (enterprise) unified communications." > > http://vonmag.com/news/featured-articles/ip-pbxs-application-fascination > > When Verizon or any other tier 1 provider offers SIP handoff for a much > reduced cost than POTs lines, you may see a paradigm shift. They are > running IP at the core too. They can cut costs by delivering SIP calls > and pass that along to the consumer. Then it is bye bye POTs lines and > hello QoS enabled internet data T1s to the CO or core. > > Another prediction from Steve Totaro. Mark my words! > > Thanks, > Steve > > Tim Booth wrote: > >> Its not a KSU killer in the small end market. A good example is the >> Vodavi STSe key system, basic KSU is 4 CO lines with CID daughter board >> + 2 SLT ports and 8 Digital extensions for $298 bucks. In skin Voice >> mail $599 and 24 button digital speaker phones $115 each. >> Do the math it's less than an Asterisk server, just doesn't have all the >> other bells and whistles. Most small business don't use those other >> bells and whistles anyway. >> I sell both Asterisk solutions and key system, the key systems are not >> going are not going away anytime soon. >> >> >> >> shadowym wrote: >> >>> That sort of comment is totally uncalled for IMHO! It was obviously done >>> out of emotion. Otherwise you would present some sort of valid argument >>> such as links/white papers/case studies of successful implementations. I >>> would like to see evidence of just as much as anyone but my initial >>> excitement over it has waned. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Henry L.Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:27 AM >>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion >>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers?? >>> >>> Shadowym...You must have led a sheltered life. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
