Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 22:30:56 GMT From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 'Dumb PBX' Wanted Message-ID: Organization: SwitchView Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 314, Message 6 of 8 Lines: 24 In article DANIEL@bnr.ca (Daniel Zlatin) writes: > Northern Telecom's Norstar system is definitely an open architecture > PBX. All of the functions of the system are available to a PC through > an interface card (which connects to the KSU as though it were a set). > A software library for the PC, available from NT, enables one to write > applications similar to those that were mentioned in the original > posting. While I whole heartedly agree that the Norstar is definitely an "open architecture" system (if you don't discount systems with licencing fees and contracts as not open) it is certainly not a PBX. I know this may seem like picking gnats and many, many people on this conference call these type of systems PBX's it is actually a Key System. It does not even have ground start trunk interfaces so it cannot be called a PBX in the traditional sense. It is however a wonderful Key System with a wealth of possibilities using the "open interface". I'm waiting for a Unix version of the toolkit though :). Vance Shipley vances@ltg ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!ltg!vances