[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On 27 May 2010 09:57:03 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

geoff wrote:
marksuley4 wrote:
You use your phone system (also known as a PBX) every day, so you
already know that phone systems are responsible for handling your call
control and managing your connection to your telephone service
provider. What you might not be familiar with is VoIP.

VoIP is short for Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP is a way to make
calls across your Local Area Network (LAN) and or Wide Area Network
(WAN).

What is it ? It is a technology that can easily be very unreliable and
frought with complications and problems.

But that is the future! Today we _must_ replace reliable technologies with
more profitable less reliable ones. Why do you think wireless is so popular?
--scott

The entire British phone network is now Voip. It still has switched
lines as a matter of legacy, but most new businesses buy a PABX with a
Voip connection that meshes straight into the BT backhaul.

d