Subj : Re: VOIP.ms Cheap VOIP & CallerID
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Tom Moore
Date : Wed Apr 19 2023 17:18:05

  Re: Re: VOIP.ms Cheap VOIP & CallerID
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Tom Moore on Tue Apr 18 2023 06:49:00

 > As a guy who used to set up turnkey systems for small businesses, VOIP
 > PBXes rock. I got to know Avaya, Norstar and a couple of other PBXes
 > that ran analog or TDM phones, and it was always a pain in the ass. It
 > did mean that I usually got to charge ad infinitum for moves, adds and
 > changes, though.
 >
 > Now, with 8x8, ring central or a VOIP provider, you could buy a handful
 > of VOIP phones, define call groups and auto-attendants through a web
 > page, and you're done in a fraction of the time.

When I started out in voip we started by doing line services over sip for these local phone systems by using 8 port gateways to replace 1fb lines in the systems and piping them over customer's dsl lines.
We also used a custom pri box to do the same thing for customers who had t1 interfaces before hosted phones took off!

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