{"id":6736,"date":"2008-04-05T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/westport-voip.html"},"modified":"2008-04-05T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T11:12:52","slug":"westport-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/westport-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"Westport VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although this may not be earth-shattering news, I find it personally satisfying to see that after about ten years of publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmag.com\">Internet Telephony Magazine<\/a> and holding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo<\/a>, that the town of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westportct.gov\/default.htm\">Westport, CT<\/a> has decided they will go VoIP.<\/p>\n<p>The city will spend $1.25 million dollars in fact to VoIP-enable the town, the Board of Education and the Westport Public Library. Some of the concerns raised about this install are what happens if the power goes out.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that Westport is the neighboring town to Norwalk, CT where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/directions.htm\">TMC headquarters<\/a> are located. A tidbit which may eventually help you win Trivial Pursuit is that occasionally you will find TMC team members heading to Westport for lunch to have sushi.<\/p>\n<p>Westport is also fairly affluent as cities in Connecticut go. Darien, Greenwich and New Canaan are a few other cities in Connecticut which also have high levels of wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question is, who will win the bid as price will likely not be an object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this may not be earth-shattering news, I find it personally satisfying to see that after about ten years of publishing Internet Telephony Magazine and holding Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo, that the town of Westport, CT has decided they will go VoIP. The city will spend $1.25 million dollars in fact to VoIP-enable the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,199,156,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}