"Can Centrex survive or perhaps even thrive in the era of convergence?" Industry observer Jay Brandstadter thinks it can, but maybe not in the form you've known it: "For those considering IP telephony ...

Hosted IP providers, such as Vantage Communicationsor Star2Star, routinely offer a more robust complement of features, functions, and applications in their standard package. The "standard" package ...

A lot of people are talking up Hosted IP Communications, formerly known as IP Centrex, as a cure for the capex blues. Byron Battles, a veteran consultant, takes a look at the business and technology ...

While carriers have been slow to launch this hosted telephony option, IP Centrex is seen as delivering more benefits than traditional Centrex or PBXs for less. The installed base of hosted IP ...

Centrex is an acronym for Central Office Exchange, a technology-based solution that provides telephone services across a public network to individuals and companies. However, the service-based ...

Managed and Centrex and hosted, oh my! For companies looking for an alternative to a premise-based phone system, there are plenty available, and they come in all shapes and sizes. Hosted voice, IP ...

IP Centrex/Hosted PBX is one of the emerging services/technologies that allow businesses to collapse their voice and data traffic onto a single network. It is also one of the IP services that will ...

The Voice on the Network show last week was bopping in Boston, boasting more exhibitors than ever and some 5,000-plus show goers. One theme that kept bubbling to the surface was hosted IP telephony ...

Despite availability of ISDN digital services and other latter-day enhancements, the Centrex market eroded steadily through the 1990s. According to one report, PBX's share of new installed lines grew ...

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MANHASSET, N.Y. — A new report from high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR projects that IP Centrex/Hosted PBX will experience growth of around 100% annually through 2008, with much of this growth ...

Optus is decommissioning its Nortel-powered hosted VoIP Centrex offering in favour of a new voice module delivered over its next-generation Evolve network. The carrier's hosted VoIP solution, launched ...