The PBX: Not quite dead

The role of the PBX is changing in importance, but it’s still too early to issue a death certificate, according to Infonetics.

PBXs took a big hit when the economy faltered two years ago — sales dropped 25% in 2009 — and they have been struggling to rebound, says Matthias Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics, but they are far from out, as Microsoft suggested last week with its announcement of its latest unified communications platform Lync 2010, a renaming of its Office Communications Server line — via redwolf.newsvine.com