Ted at Signal-to-noise posted about Sam Houston State University (SHSU) switching to Asterisk IP PBXes from Nortel PBXes. They have also moved 1600 IP phones from Cisco CallManager to Asterisk. They've set up a redundant system with multiple Dell servers. Sounds exciting; other universities could certainly save money following suit - maybe even pass on the savings in terms of tuition rate reductions. Just as long as they choose wisely and don't get hosed on poor choices. Years ago, the university I attended was somehow persuaded to buy the Rolm telephony system when it was already outdated. Later, when I worked at a giant telecom company, an insider told me how the sales guys (from elsewhere) had laughed afterwards about how they snowed the university on the Rolm system.