...The University of the Arts Selects Pingtel's SIPxchange ECS Open Source
VoIP Solution
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| "We looked at similar systems from a variety of vendors including
| Cisco and Avaya, but were quickly put off by their high costs,
| which were almost double that of SIPxchange ECS," said Jeffrey
| Basoff, Director of Network Services at The University of the Arts.
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http://www.dmnnewswire.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=143265
Nortel Strong Arms Open Source Vendor
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| What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact
| that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went
| looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based
| solution from Fonality instead of using Nortel's own PBX and then
| agreed to go on record on the VoIP & Gadgets blog about why they made
| such a shocking decision?
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| A) Nothing - it's a VoIP blog - who cares? Nortel is an $11 billion
| dollar company that certainly doesn't read blogs for their news.
| B) Nortel reads the blog post, is a little peeved, but other than
| some emails sent internally, no one outside Nortel would ever know
| they were annoyed.
| C) A Nortel Board Member flips out over the article, contacts
| Blade and then pressures Blade to return the Fonality system and
| have Fonality print a retraction to the blog article (and the
| subsequent press release).
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| If you answered C) congratulations, we have a winner!
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/nortel-strong-arms-open-source-vendor.asp
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