Conmutador PBX

English translation: PBX switchboard (Private Branch eXchange)

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Spanish term or phrase:Conmutador PBX
English translation:PBX switchboard (Private Branch eXchange)
Entered by: Neil Ashby

11:13 Jun 19, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Telecom(munications)
Spanish term or phrase: Conmutador PBX
The footer of a University letter from Colombia contains the contact information:

Km. 5 vía a Puerto Colombia - Apartados Aéreos 1569 - Conmutador PBX 3509509 - Fax, etc.

Is Conmutador PBX just Tel: in English, or more literally, PBX switchboard?

Thanks,

Juliette
ServingMed.com
Netherlands
Local time: 18:44
PBX exchanger/switchboard
Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2012-06-19 11:20:03 GMT)
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Private Branch Exchange.
http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition...
A PBX (private branch exchange) is a telephone system within an enterprise that switches calls between enterprise users on local lines while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines. The main purpose of a PBX is to save the cost of requiring a line for each user to the telephone company's central office.

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Note added at 7 mins (2012-06-19 11:21:14 GMT)
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So you could say a "PBX" or just "switchboard"

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Note added at 10 mins (2012-06-19 11:23:40 GMT)
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Sorry - you could say "PBX" or "PBX switchboard"
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Neil Ashby
Spain
Local time: 18:44
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Thank you all!
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3 +5PBX exchanger/switchboard
Neil Ashby
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PBX switchboard
José Patrício

  

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PBX exchanger/switchboard


Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2012-06-19 11:20:03 GMT)
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Private Branch Exchange.
http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition...
A PBX (private branch exchange) is a telephone system within an enterprise that switches calls between enterprise users on local lines while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines. The main purpose of a PBX is to save the cost of requiring a line for each user to the telephone company's central office.

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Note added at 7 mins (2012-06-19 11:21:14 GMT)
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So you could say a "PBX" or just "switchboard"

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Note added at 10 mins (2012-06-19 11:23:40 GMT)
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Sorry - you could say "PBX" or "PBX switchboard"

Neil Ashby
Spain
Local time: 18:44
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  José Patrício
4 mins

agree  Al Zaid: 100%
33 mins

agree  Richard Hill
2 hrs

agree  John Cutler
2 hrs

agree  philgoddard: Yes, not "PBX exchange" or "PBX exchanger".
3 hrs
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