This is a little off topic, but we just switched over to a $20,000 phone system running through a $15,000 router, and you know how much it cost us? $0.00. Ah, the beauty of technology!
Some of our techys have been experimenting with an open source VOIP PBX system called trixbox (trixbox.org), which is basically an automated bundle of Asterisk, FreePBX, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and a bunch of other things. If that's a foreign language, I'll translate: we built a fully function corporate phone system out of old computer parts and open source free software.
We also built a router to handle all of the new VOIP network traffic using spare parts and an open source firewall, pfSense (pfSense.org).
To top it all off, we cut our monthly phone bill by 75% using a VOIP provider named Vitelity (vitelity.com).
There were a few kinks, however, that could not have been solved save for our resident networking and Linux expert. Make sure you have an expert handy if you ever consider replacing your traditional hardware.
We did have to buy a few really neat Cisco 4940 phones for $100 a piece on eBay (retails for almost $500 each), but we then sold off our old phone system, on eBay of course, and broke even.
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