University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk (LinuxWorld) [LWN.net]

LinuxWorld covers the switch to an open-source telephone PBX by Sam Houston State University. "Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk. SHSU is in the process of moving its 6,000 students, faculty and staff off of Cisco CallManager IP PBXs and a legacy Nortel Meridian PBX over to Linux servers running Asterisk, which includes call processing, voicemail and PSTN gateway functionality. The driver for this project was cost, says Aaron Daniel, senior voice analyst at Sam Houston State University."

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University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk (LinuxWorld)

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:14 UTC (Thu) by charris (subscriber, #13263) [Link]

Sam Houston State University has also been known by several aliases:

Sam Houston Institute of Teaching (Alumnus Dan Rather)
Sam Houston Institute of Technology (Janis Joplin biography)

It's nice to be reminded of these bits of trivia ;)

also

Posted Sep 15, 2006 2:53 UTC (Fri) by ccyoung (guest, #16340) [Link]

where Prime Minister Thaksin of Thailand got his Law Enforcement degree, allowing him a foot in the door (along with standard Thai business arrangements) to sell computers to police departments, first step (along with a rich and well connected family) in becoming a billionare.