Call Waiting?
The computer phone is still a thing of the future, but IP telephony will deliver better ways to beam up to your enterprise today.
By Mike Hogan •
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It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. The Empirehadn't yet struck back, William Shatner still looked good inpolyester, and most PCs ran something called CP/M.
The PC had scarcely been invented before people tried to fix itup with the telephone. One company, Convergent Technologies, hungtelephones on desktop computers wired to a PBX-cum-LAN. But itturned out that computer/phone relationships require more than justa software handshake and a hardware redesign. The biggest hurdle,says telephony analyst Jeff Pulver of Pulver.com, an onlinecommunity for the IP industry, has been the reluctance of Bellmonopolies to make room on the public-switched telephone network(PSTN) for competitors.
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