Cisco Adopting Open Source?

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At a recent regional field training for Cisco IP Telephony, it was mentioned that Cisco is moving towards 3rd party interoperability with their Cisco Call Manager system. With the upcoming of release of Call Manager 5.0 and the new line of Cisco IP end points that come SIP ready, it seems Cisco is finally on track with the rest of the VoIP industry.

This development means that Cisco has recognized that enterprise and SMB customers want the ability to choose which endpoints they use. The ability for Cisco to offer the consumer more choices, as well as, their ability to deliver on a robust, feature rich, fully supported system will put a Cisco system in the hands of more clients. I can see it now, a customer with a $55 Grandstream Budgetone 101, and a $150 Cisco seat license.

Garrett Smith