RE: VoIP on iSeries

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did an article on this technology a while back, Walden, and the only real
benefit I was able to glean from the 3Com folks was this: if you're someone
who has irregular demand (an example was someone who does quarterly
telephone reports to shareholders, but there are plenty of other examples),
then a dedicated VoIP product would require you to buy the capacity for the
largest demand, and most of that expensive installation would be unused most
of the time.  Running on an iSeries LPAR, you could conceivably just switch
some of your resource to the VoIP partition during those peak times, and put
it back into production when necessary.

I'm not sure, though, that even this makes sense with Al's point about phone
system downtime for upgrades.

Joe

> From: Walden H. Leverich
>
> We had a presentation on this at LISUG last month. As someone w/both
> VoIP deployed internally and working w/customers w/VoIP I've got to say
> I don't see ANY REASON you'd want to run your VoIP infrastructure off an
> iSeries. Sorry, but I just don't see a reason (other than, because I
> can).
>
> Integrate w/VoIP, sure, like CallPath/400, but have the iSeries as the
> core of your VoIP system, why?