🚀 go-pugleaf

|> 
|> > I disagree. Bell would LOVE for you to fall for this. Centrex
|> > means:
|> >         One phone per BRI.
|> > 
|> >         All "intercom calls" to Fred (2 desks over) tie up TWO
|> >         B channels; one of his, one of yours.
|> > 
|> >         You get to deal with their switch translations every time
|> >         you want to do anything.
|> > 
|> >         You pay their rates for every "feature" you need.
|> > 
|> > What's needed is a good 5 cent cigar ^H^H^H ISDN PBX....
|> 
|> I agree. If they could charge you every time you even thought about
|> picking up that receiver, they would. What's needed is a mini-Meridian.
|> Something that can start off with as little as 2 BRI's and then expand up
|> to a PRI line with cards. Voice mail, fax servers and the like could be
|> added. And make the software run on a PC or Mac, so that we don't have to
|> pay $1500 to upgrade the damn thing.

Someone posted about the Redcom pbx/switches - I called, and they
claim to be expandable in this way (well, we didn't talk voicemail/LAN).
I've got info on the way from them.

|> With the telecommuting marketplace exploding, I think this would be a
|> great product, plus you could tie it into the big iron and make a freaking
|> fortune.

I don't know where *you're* telecommuting from, but I don't need
a PBX in my home.  And I doubt they'd be able to make one that
I *would* want for the $$$ I could pay.  Wishful thinking, I guess...

How much would people pay for such an all-in-1 box, anyway?
BRI or POTS jacks, an Ethernet connector (bridge/routing?), and 
a serial cable for a PC to do fax reception?  Digital answering 
machine, too?


bruce

|> 
|> Just my $.02,
|> Scott Kozicki
|> <SKozicki@BlueStar.net>