Comment Nortel number one IP PBX (Score 1) 232
"Nortel leads the recovering North American IP PBX market," said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst at Infonetics Research, in a statement. "Avaya and Cisco are engaged in an epic battle for second place, with Cisco steadily encroaching on Avaya's leadership position."
Nortel offers a SMB IP PBX - Business Communications Manager - for a very reasonable price (in general, Nortel offers more competitive pricing than Cisco) and Nortel has a very strong R&D culture and tremendous products.
By purchasing a SMB IP PBX, you can do your trunking in-house. Having an off-site third party company manage the connection to the public telephone network is risky...