With the increasing popularity of SIP, will the PBX become extinct soon? Since every windows user has a SIP client on his desk, a PBX is no longer needed to provide telephone sets as desktop communication endpoints. Couldn't any SIP client on any PC connected the Internet be used to communicate with any phone in the world without the need to have a PBX in the office? What functionalities do PBXes provide that could not be replaced by SIP and its companion protocols?
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PBX'es (real ones) are about applications. Some of the applications can be done with SIP...
There has been a discussion on the subject just recently in comp.dcom.telecom.tech We have it archived here:
Read it, see if you can get some pointers from it. I personally think that the two will co-exist for quite some time, but some people think radically different.
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