How Do You Go From Centrex To PBX For A Hospital Application?

[FreedomFireCom]

You have a hosptital with 1000+ Centrex Lines, looking at moving to
your own PBX. It's the same old story, new management, fired the
telecom manager, handed the phone system to IT, no additional bodies,
and now you are suppose to replace it. So what do you do?

This article helps explain:

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-You-Go-From-Centrex-To-PBX-For-A-Hospital-Application?&id=468963

God Bless,
Michael Lemm
FreedomFire Communications
"Helping YOUR Business....DO Business"
http://DS3-Bandwidth.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/freedomfirecom

[Al Gillis]

Well, Michael, it sounds like you're being set up to be the next guy to be
fired!

If you don't have the skill and knowledge in-house to understand the
applications and technology behind Voice Services you should probably leave
well enough alone. Especially at a hospital, where telephone service is
more than a nice thing to have! And you might think about getting your
resume up to date!

Many IT people get sucked into a spiral of death because they think they can
easily deal with a simple technical problem or project. But it rarely works
so easily. I'd hire someone who has a good background in telephony - either
as an FTE or a contractor!

Good luck!

Al

Post by FreedomFireCom
You have a hosptital with 1000+ Centrex Lines, looking at moving to
your own PBX. It's the same old story, new management, fired the
telecom manager, handed the phone system to IT, no additional bodies,
and now you are suppose to replace it. So what do you do?
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-You-Go-From-Centrex-To-PBX-For-A-Hospital-Application?&id=468963
God Bless,
Michael Lemm
FreedomFire Communications
"Helping YOUR Business....DO Business"
http://DS3-Bandwidth.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/freedomfirecom

[Carl Navarro]

Post by Al Gillis
Well, Michael, it sounds like you're being set up to be the next guy to be
fired!
If you don't have the skill and knowledge in-house to understand the
applications and technology behind Voice Services you should probably leave
well enough alone. Especially at a hospital, where telephone service is
more than a nice thing to have! And you might think about getting your
resume up to date!
Many IT people get sucked into a spiral of death because they think they can
easily deal with a simple technical problem or project. But it rarely works
so easily. I'd hire someone who has a good background in telephony - either
as an FTE or a contractor!
Good luck!
Al

Al, buddy. You must have read the subject and fired off a reply.
Michael didn't do anything of the sort. He's trying to convince us to
abandon traditional PBX technology for the highly proven Voip
technology he's promoting. All that in a mission critical application
as a hospital.

It's a thread that didn't deserve a response and now he has two :-)

Carl Navarro

[T]

Post by Al Gillis
Well, Michael, it sounds like you're being set up to be the next guy to be
fired!
If you don't have the skill and knowledge in-house to understand the
applications and technology behind Voice Services you should probably leave
well enough alone. Especially at a hospital, where telephone service is
more than a nice thing to have! And you might think about getting your
resume up to date!
Many IT people get sucked into a spiral of death because they think they can
easily deal with a simple technical problem or project. But it rarely works
so easily. I'd hire someone who has a good background in telephony - either
as an FTE or a contractor!
Good luck!

Funny you should say that about I.T. folks. I'm primarily an I.T. guy
but very knowledgable about telephony. I've got quite a few years
experience on AT&T and Samsung systems from Partner to Definity on AT&T
and mostly DCS on Samsung. I know what the pointy side of the 110 punch
down tool is for, know the color codes for fifty pair, and even know how
to correctly terminate CAT-5 cable.

But when I try to teach this skill to co-workers I get met with blank
stares. A phone switch is nothing but a switching matrix attached to a
computer. You'd think I.T. folks would be all over that.

[Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman]

Post by T

Post by Al Gillis
Well, Michael, it sounds like you're being set up to be the next guy to be
fired!
If you don't have the skill and knowledge in-house to understand the
applications and technology behind Voice Services you should probably leave
well enough alone. Especially at a hospital, where telephone service is
more than a nice thing to have! And you might think about getting your
resume up to date!
Many IT people get sucked into a spiral of death because they think they can
easily deal with a simple technical problem or project. But it rarely works
so easily. I'd hire someone who has a good background in telephony - either
as an FTE or a contractor!
Good luck!

Funny you should say that about I.T. folks. I'm primarily an I.T. guy
but very knowledgable about telephony. I've got quite a few years
experience on AT&T and Samsung systems from Partner to Definity on AT&T
and mostly DCS on Samsung. I know what the pointy side of the 110 punch
down tool is for, know the color codes for fifty pair, and even know how
to correctly terminate CAT-5 cable.
But when I try to teach this skill to co-workers I get met with blank
stares. A phone switch is nothing but a switching matrix attached to a
computer. You'd think I.T. folks would be all over that.

I'm trying to recall the name of an author and his book, whom I read
some 23 years ago -- said in his book on I.T. or programming that a
programmer is a most genius person in this world, but (s)he should be a
programmer.

The AT&T knew it, that's why they were the first to deploy powers of
computing, knowledge and, or skills of top I.T. persons for their
telecom business.