3. Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill racked up a bill
On rent for bricks and mortar.
What a waste, they used the space
For the PBX they stored there.
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4. Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie’s VoIP calls run through the ground,
Over speedy broadband enjoying HD sound,
No more in-house systems, no more spares to stock,
IT can sleep in today, way past eight o’clock.
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5. Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Twinkle, twinkle, little LED,
Tells me if equipment’s dead.
Flashing green means all is fine,
Turning red, it’s panic time.
Farewell, farewell, little LED,
Live inside the cloud instead.
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6. Jack be nimble
SIP trunk be nimble,
SIP trunk be quick,
SIP trunk do show me
That bandwidth trick.
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7. One, two, buckle my shoe
One, two, Goodbye Alcalu;
Three four, Mitel no more;
Five, six, Don’t need PBX;
Seven, eight, Savings are great;
Nine, ten, Cap-ex will end;
Eleven, Twelve, No gear on the shelf;
Thirteen, fourteen, The install is clean;
Fifteen, sixteen, New apps make me beam;
Seventeen, eighteen, Tech haute cuisine;
Nineteen, twenty, Equipment room empty.
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8. Little Bo Peep
Little Bo Peep has lost her sleep,
Over TDM cable pollution;
Get rid of it all, and make the call,
To switch to a hosted solution.
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9. Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle diddle,
Cat-5 in the middle,
Voice calls jumped over broadband,
The IAD laughed to see a SIP trunk,
And the carrier extended its brand.
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10. Teddy bear, teddy bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Pays through the nose.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
New options have pros.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
In the cloud you can scale.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Let op-ex prevail.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Support costs will shrink.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
When you think beyond Lync.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
It’s cap-ex goodnight.
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11. Three blind mice
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran through the equipment room,
They laughed, they jumped, they skipped, they zoomed,
No gear to bump into, barren as the moon,
Lucky blind mice.
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12. Red sky at night
UC at night,
what’s not to like?
UC in morning,
users still fawning.
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13. Little Boy Blue
IT’s not blue,
What have they done?
There’s phones on the desk,
But the backend is gone.
Sent to the cloud
Where it’s featured and cheap.
So IT’s real happy
And now fast asleep.
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14. Rock a-bye baby
Rock a-bye Centrex,
so long on top,
When the boss calls,
the penny will drop,
Budgets do break,
and empires will fall,
It’s time to go VoIP now,
cloud-based and all.
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15. Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock,
The outside line was blocked.
The trunks declined,
They need more lines,
Got SIP trunks instead and it rocked.
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16. Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty broke his firewall,
His session controller would not allow calls.
Dumped all his vendors and all of their men,
Outsourced the lot and felt better again.
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17. It’s raining, it’s pouring
It’s raining; it’s pouring.
This voicemail is boring.
With speech to text I won’t be vexed,
Or mad at this TUI all morning.
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18. Old King Cole
Old King Cole faced a long distance toll
With his treasury drained by recession;
He saved him some gold, and broke from the mold
As he started a new softphone session.
Every device had a smart application,
Available to download for free;
There’s no premises gear, so have no fear
For King Cole and his mobility.
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19. Goosey Goosey gander
Goosey Goosey gander,
Your deskphone now can wander,
To 3G or to Wi-Fi,
Whichever one is stronger.
Video and voice calls,
IM and presence too,
Enabled with a softphone
That’s twinned to look like you.
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20. Baa, Baa Black Sheep
Baa, baa, black sheep,
How often do you tweet?
More than I’d like to,
A hundred times a week;
Once with my own thoughts,
And twice when I’m out,
And ninety-seven other times
Just to boost my Klout.
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21. Sing a song of sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence,
A T1 trunk I tried.
Four and twenty timeslots,
But monthly costs are high.
Can I now get IP?
Coz benefits it brings;
Unified comms, lower costs,
The next time my phone rings.
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22. Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Who worked at the Telco.
And when she wanted a new plan,
The lamb was sure to know.
It’s the best business bundle,
Which met all her needs.
It kept her happy in the cloud,
And out of the weeds.
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23. Network technologies and services are moving to the cloud
– and nursery rhymes are going with them.
Geese, mice and old kings have been made redundant, replaced with SIP trunks,
softphones and hosted services – topics that will put even the most restless child to sleep.
“Silver Linings - Nursery rhymes for cloudy times” is the first book by authors Steve
Gleave and Iwan Price-Evans, and illustrator Lee Queza. As technology marketers, they
were happy to find another outlet for their fanciful narratives and dreamy illustrations.
Gifted by Metaswitch
