[ale] covad VoIP down...

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:16 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon March 27 2006 10:05 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > You can still have problems with telephone lines but I would rather
> > place my money in that system to deliver my voice calls and in the
> > phone room I would deploy VOIP for my internal extensions.
> 
> when we lived in Conyers, I had my phone through the cable. First it 
> was MediaOne, then AT&T, then Comcast.. I only remember 2 outages, and 
> neither one was very long, and we did have cell phones as backup.
> 

I've lived in Buford since 1999.  Not one outage on POTs.  I'm not
against VOIP.  I'm against VOIP as a primary means of communication.   I
think it can be used as a cost effective PBX system but I believe that
the "soft switch" needs to be on the premises of the business.  VOIP
could be used to link other offices together but they still need a soft
switch on their end too for regular communications.

A PBX is not a cheap item.  I've looked at using * in our facility but
when I add a 4 port T1 card or whatever to the system I'm now at a price
that is equivalent to something Nortel sells in the BCM line.  However
if you scale the PBX the * system becomes a better value.  I think
Nortel charges a license fee for each extra VOIP extension past a
certain number.  This is free in *