atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums VOIP Phones & IP PBX VoIP & Cloud Phones, Hosted PBX, General IP Phones I wish I had it in writing

I was sent to replace a 565HK once, on a repair order that was handed to me personally by a foreman whom I had never seen before. He also handed me the phone to use. It all seemed pretty strange to me, since I knew positively that the phone to be replaced was working just fine.

So, being the inquisitive type, once I was away from the garage, I unscrewed the housing and looked inside. The phone seemed to be 100% Kosher...no little electronic gadgets, etc. The only thing that caught my eye was the Yellow/Brown pair had been moved over to the screws where the receiver unit white leads were fastened on the network.

I installed the phone, per the service order, and then a few days later, went back to the telephone closet and looked around until I found the 25-pair cable for that phone. The Y/Br pair had been cross-connected to a feeder pair. Where it went from there is anybody's guess.

The U-type receiver in a 500-type set is microphonic, and will pick up surrounding sounds and produce a signal, that can be easily amplified. It was easy to bug an office with the 500-series. All you needed to do was replace the set with a modified one, and wire the MDF for the observation circuit.

It is, what it is, and nobody can change the surge of VOIP and the fact that it is here to stay.

Not if people got educated and stopped buying it. Look at the backlash Vista is getting.

-Hal

Dang, I forgot to "ADD REPLY". Now I gotta do it all over again!
Uh, guys, the expression "It is what it is" has been banned do to being an overused word or expression. I, for one, am tickled pink! In my experience, it means ' I don't know, I don't care, and I'm not going to do anything about it/answer your question.' Whenever I get that expression at work, I just drop the subject and walk away, because I know nothing will be done/the speaker does NOT give a tinker's ----. Maybe I expect more because at my last job, there was nowhere to pass the buck to, I WAS the buck 'catcher'. I guess that I should be tickled that I don't have the responsibility anymore! John C. (Not Garand)

What do you want to do about it? Do you want to get some signs and we all can start a pick line (STOP VOIP!!!). What buck is being passed, please inlighten me?

Instead of bitchin about VOIP go and expand your mind and learn about VOIP, then you can do both TDM and VOIP.

I believe that both TDM and VoIP have there place. I have to say I believe the place for TDM is waning more and more each day. I do not work in TDM only because there is MORE VoIP work than I can possibly do, we are turning it down. VoIP is driving all of the new applications. VoIP is where the excitement is. When a company already has infrastructure deployed why would they chose not to leverage that advantage? It is true that a lot of people have trouble deploying VoIP, but does that mean that it therefore inferior? There are some huge complexities to a converged network, in many cases one doesn't just deploy the equipment. Step back and look at the significant advantages you are gaining from using VoIP. The idea of maintaining a single converged infrastructure has real universal appeal. The idea of having SOHO users that can be anywhere in the planet operating behind a LAN-to-LAN tunnel that are an intercom number away has mass application. The user can log into a specific call center Que and be logged into the domain eliminates the need for a physical call center but leverages a huge untapped labor market. To me this is an exciting time.

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.

Exciting indeed.