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My personal / professional value went up yesterday. I learned how to program a PBX with OTM.
(OK, the geeks are happy for me now).
A PBX is a phone system. For the lack of a better term, it is a phone system's server. Calls come in, this tells them where to go. They get transferred between extensions, this tells them where to go.
Normally, especially in the past, someone had to sit at a dumb terminal with what looks like a DOS prompt and enter in line after line of commands and code to program it. I don't know how recently, but someone created OTM (Office Telephony Manager). It is a (crude) graphical interface manager for the PBX systems. Think of going from using telnet to browse the web to the first generation browser (well, this isn't as user friendly as the first generation).
I'm sure this won't look bad on a resume.
(OK, the geeks are happy for me now).
A PBX is a phone system. For the lack of a better term, it is a phone system's server. Calls come in, this tells them where to go. They get transferred between extensions, this tells them where to go.
Normally, especially in the past, someone had to sit at a dumb terminal with what looks like a DOS prompt and enter in line after line of commands and code to program it. I don't know how recently, but someone created OTM (Office Telephony Manager). It is a (crude) graphical interface manager for the PBX systems. Think of going from using telnet to browse the web to the first generation browser (well, this isn't as user friendly as the first generation).
I'm sure this won't look bad on a resume.
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