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["Brian Henning" <bhenning AT pineinst.com>]

Hi InterNetWorkers,

Our small company is evaluating options for moving from POTS to a hosted
VoIP solution.

I'd be very appreciative of any input, preferably off-list, from both
vendors and consumers of hosted VoIP solutions in the Triangle area.  I'm
looking for pros and cons, so that I can make some sort of rational choice.

Here's some more about our company:

+ We are located off Triangle Drive (across US-70 from The Original Mattress
Factory).
+ We have four full-time in-office employees, and two part-time
mostly-from-home employees.
+ We currently have BellSouth DSL which, according to a dslreports.com speed
test I just ran, gives us about 6Mbps down and 384 kbps up.
+ We make relatively routine use of Skype's voice and video features to talk
to folks in our parent company office in Grove City, PA.
+ We also have a VPN setup to Grove City using SonicWall hardware endpoints.
The VPN sees medium-to-low traffic.

We are interested in evaluating solutions that either use our existing ISP
or involve other public and/or private WAN technologies such as T1s, etc.
(e.g. FeatureTel's FUSION service).

Cheers!
~Brian

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          Brian Henning, Software Engineer

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