“Hey, that’s a Mitel IP phone… I remember when that handset was introduced. It was very different from the previous one but had better ‘shoulderability’ … it created a bit of a stir among customers, though. Hmmm… I wonder what model IP phone that is……”

All of this was running through my head during a routine visit to my bank this morning while waiting at a counter talking to someone. He had to call another office so there I was looking at his desk phone.

It happens to me all the time!

Even though I left Mitel way back in 2007… and really left IP telephony when I left Voxeo in 2011… IP telephony hasn’t left me!

I’ll be at a hotel… and I am checking out their phone system. A bank… an office… Wherever! There’s a Cisco IP phone… there’s an Avaya… there’s a Mitel… a snow… a I-have-no-clue…

I guess it’s just an occupational hazard of having been a product manager for IP phones during my time at Mitel… or maybe just the 6 years I spent there learning about IP telephony… but I just always see the IP phones. 🙂