{"id":3600,"date":"2019-02-06T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:21:57","slug":"att-commercials-system-25-pbx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/att-commercials-system-25-pbx\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Commercials: System 25 PBX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AT&amp;T System 25 PBX Commercial\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kh6lub6NK-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I know my way around the switchboard better than anyone. But this new system we got here&#8230;well it&#8217;s so complicated no one can work it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder things are running amok around here. I think they should cut their losses and work from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was one damn good ad campaign that ran on mainstream primetime programming. I mean when I was growing up Nortel and Avaya could only get their way on cable news. CNN was the highest they could go outside the 3 business cable networks. But with the rise of VOIP and other UC vendors out there that could be just as bad as 1987, you wonder if there&#8217;s another vendor out there that could do &#8220;Your Business Phone is Your Business Lifeline&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>By the way<\/em>: The System 25 while it sounds like System 75 is not. The System 25 was based on code from the AT&amp;T Merlin but the catch here is could do light duty PBX. The &#8220;hybrid&#8221; boards used on the Definity PBX was actually designed for the System 25 for users upgrading <em>from<\/em> the 25 <em>to<\/em> the 75. Under 200 ports was the audience. System could stack up to 3 carrier cabinets, and the cabinets were recommended to sit on top of a desk or a filing cabinet and not on the floor. Many years later, the signature design of the System 25 carriers can be seen in modern day Avaya G650 rack mount carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The System 25 didn&#8217;t have much of a roadmap. It didn&#8217;t last long as a new system and the recommended replacement was a small Definity G3 small carrier cabinet, could hold a System 25 in one wide carrier.<\/p>\n<p>System 25 cabinets can be purchased on eBay. Without software it can&#8217;t do much, and to load them you would need data cassettes to load the software into memory.\u00a0<em>Yup it&#8217;s that old!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I know my way around the switchboard better than anyone. But this new system we got here&#8230;well it&#8217;s so complicated no one can work it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder things are running amok around here. 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