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Sam Houston State University replaces Cisco CallManagers, Nortel PBXs with Linux-based VoIP and messaging servers

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.

AT&T this week won its first municipal Wi-Fi deal. The service provider has changed its stance and is now all for becoming a supplier of free, ad-sponsored fixed wireless service on municipal networks. 

Fast wireless LAN gear based on a draft version of the next industry standard is making inroads into the small-office and home market despite costing more than twice as much as other products.

In the second quarter, vendors worldwide sold about $25 million worth of routers and interface cards based on the first draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard, according to a report released Monday by market research company Dell’Oro Group. The figure covers less than the full quarter because the first of the new products didn’t go on sale until after the quarter began, says Dell’Oro analyst Elmer Choy.