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Migration to VOIP System

We have 3 T1 lines

two for internet,
One for PRI Voice

i am looking into VOIP but still a beginner. What are the options for VOIP migration? With that could i eliminate the extra voice line? i was looking at previous posts at ee, seems like Cisco / Avavya products are at enterprise level - Also came across SKYPE - but skype seems to be more home based than enterprise - correct me if i am wrong.

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grblades

Skype is purely home based and uses p2p technology and the disadvantage of this is that it is practically impossible to implement any quality of service which makes it unsuitable for corporate use.

With VoIP you could eliminate the extra voice line but it depends on how reliable your internet connection is. You need a perfect internet connection between yourselves and the VoIP provider.
Generally I recommend keeping the PRI line for incoming calls and general outgoing calls. Then you can use the internet connection with VoIP for any calls between offices or any locations which are much cheaper over VoIP.

Cisco and Avavya are good. 3COM do some good equipment also.
I use Asterisk which is an open source PBX running on Linux. It is oviously much cheaper but you do need experience in administering Linux systems and configuring Asterisk.

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