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.

Wilton
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