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PBX switchboards were once found at the telephone company. As technology evolved the PBX was located at the end user's company. Today the PBX is located, in some cases, in the end user's phone. According to 3Com the PBX is reaching the end of its lifecycle due to the emergence of two new product categories—IP-PBX and SIP-PBX. The IP-PBX value proposition is that it offers easier user administration and advanced applications. SIP-PBX users rapidly gain market share while the PBX market declines.

Gateways allow access to the WAN (wide area network) and the regular telephone network. Businesses will want to look at wholesale VOIP termination both domestically and overseas. There is a market waiting to be filled as VOIP explodes in the near future.

Customers will want seamless integration between cell phone, broadband phone and standard dial up. Those who understand the technology can make huge profits.

Do you have a website?? If so you can download a free PBX software packages. See FreeVoipDownloads which will open in a new window so you do not lose your place. This is the only freeware PBX software we found for Windows.

Here at Live Phone we encountered a Cold Fusion error when we tried to register for the software. We were able to download the phone but had login errors. After talking with the company we were still unable to test the PBX software for Windows XP.

The Windows PBX freeware - Private Business Exchange looks promissing. It is the first and only 100 line Business Phone System in existence that uses Video, Audio and Text and its Totally INTERACTIVE, according to their website. You can collaborate using File Transfer, Desktop Controller and our InteractBoard. Let us know how your test came out.

For Linux users Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Their website is asterisk.org and is located here. This also opens in a new window.

By 2009, according to conservative estimates, IP PBXs will represent 91 percent of all PBX sales worldwide, according to "IP PBXs: Emerging Into Dominance" says In-Stat.

The surge by IP PBXs is even more remarkable because the total sales of PBXs will grow at 6.6 percent per year over the same period, the study says.