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[Signal to Noise] According to Network World, Sam Houston State University is in the process of mass-dumping CallManager and Nortel PBXs in favor of Asterisk running on Linux:

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[Ohvoice.com] OhVoice - Broadband Telephone and VoIP Solutions: 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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[EveryDigg] University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source... : 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.

http://newsvac.newsforge.com [NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source] University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source... : Sam Houston State University replaces Cisco CallManagers, Nortel PBXs with Linux-based VoIP and messaging servers.

LWN: Welcome to LWN.nethttp://lwn.net [LWN: Welcome to LWN.net] University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source... : 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.

http://www.sineapps.com/news.php [Daily Asterisk News and VoIP services - Asterisk 1.4 coming soon!] [IMG Click to view a printable version]: "We thought that it will be more cost effective in the long run to go with an open source solution, because of the massive amounts of licensing fees required to keep the Cisco CallManager network up and running," says Daniel, who this week gave a presentation on his migration project at the VON show in Boston. In the Cisco model, each phone attached to the CallManager required a separate annual licensing fee to operate, Daniel says.

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