Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Post-PBX World?

It isn't yet a "post-PBX" world, but we are moving that way, with the advent of distributed, software-based replacements that run on servers, either at a user's location or remotely, in the cloud.

"But the technology and industry are moving in that direction," says Fred Knight. "For the past decade, we've seen the relentless disassembly of the PBX, to the point where credible and implementable architectures now can be built without a PBX, its functionality, instead, carved up and delivered via a widely distributed network of servers."

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