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Same thing.

I'm going to go into the CIO and we're better than Avaya, so I'm going to go get it ripped out.

It doesn't matter if you're better than Avaya.

You're not ripping them out.

You can infiltrate, right? And you do that by finding that wedge.

And as we look at our clients, when Greg and I joined the business, he joined in 2012, I joined in 2015.

My father-in-law had built a really solid business starting as an Avaya provider, a partner, right, coming from that whole lineage.

And And in that world, there wasn't as many options.

When you had a PBX, you needed a hands-on regional certified provider to go and buy from distribution, design it, install it, train, support, provide maintenance, coverage, all that.

It's like, I'm not saying we're not flexible, but we know our value and it's in expertise, it's in responsiveness, and it's in care.

When there's an opportunity to be flexible and work to customize pricing, we absolutely do.

But yeah, we are very confident and feel so proud of our client loyalty and So many of our clients once had Avaya IP office systems that we've moved them to replace a PRI and do SIP trunking to save some money and then fully move them to UCAS.

And so just that journey right there just shows Yes, technology is very important, but it's the people and the processes and the care that someone's going to trust us to kind of move them forward in that journey, in that technology jump and transition.

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Thank you for joining us on the Avaya Scan Las Colinas guest line.

Thank you so much.

It was a pleasure to be here and speak with you.

Sam Healy, Stour Smith, Vaimunga.

To Avaya, the bench, as well as Jet Clear in Morgan Gannon.

Now a big in.

Well, I'll go through the Knights first because the Cutland begins on both sides down the bottom there.

Like it was that, that kind of, you know, then, and then, and then kind of just was able to see, you know, the whole transition from kind of the phones and the flip scripts to, you know, moving to, you know, a little bit of CTI and a little bit of integration.

The first computers came in, we had an Avaya switch, you know, when I was like 18, 19.

So we're talking like, you know, 95, 96, 97, something like that.

That was the big thing, the Avaya DFINITY platform.

And so again, I was a call center agent for most of the years, many of the years, became a supervisor, went back into kind of the IT space and was back there.

My parents basically said, if you want to do this, then you got to learn everything.

Talking of murders, his first sack is going to be attempted murder.

But I also think the Avaya thing, the Baker-Maker thing, there's just too much going on in the front office that's going to, like, are you going to get the best of Baker? He says he's going to get the best, but you've also pissed him off at the same

time.

Oh, a pissed-off Baker is a good Baker, though.

You're absolutely right because Denza has done a Roadster as well, which is 1,000 horsepower, which is just ridiculous.

If you look at what Lotus is doing with the Emea, the Avaya is a really good example of that, actually, of where it's this...

God knows how many thousand horsepower.

I think it's over 2000 horsepower.

like convergence was one of the biggest things to happen in the technology world at a long time.

And basically what convergence was, where you had all of these different technology products that all started running on Ethernet with IPv4, right? So when I started in technology, telephone systems, right? I was certified in Avaya, DFINITY telephone systems, probably doesn't mean a damn thing to you, Anyways, these were digital telephone systems.

You connected everything together with either things called 110 and 66 blocks.

The cable that you ran was something called Cat 3 cable.