Yeah, they still sell the phones: http://products.nortel.com/go/product_content.jsp?segId=0&catId=null&parId=0 &prod_id=8593&locale=en-US
I looked around and I can't find that kind of multiplexer. You'd looks like you would need a small digital PBX since you need to be able to define stations and a dial plan. -------------------------------------------------- Salvatore Giudice [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP Security Training, LLC http://VoIPSecurityTraining.com 848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #1676 Las Vegas, NV 89107 Phone: (617) 959-7625 Fax: (214) 279-2906 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Bosch Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:36 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Digital Phones Salvatore Giudice wrote: > Nortel digital Meridian phones are like $400/each. At least that was the > price of the phones at a hotel I did a job for recently. Still? (Is Nortel even making these phones anymore? I thought they spun off their telephone set division -- anybody heard of Aastra? ;) ) > When you go to SIP, you may save on the capital costs for the phones, but > other costs will increase. These are related to: > > 1.) increased support requirements for supporting VoIP > 2.) additional licensing may be required from your vendor to support SIP or > IP media > 3.) increased costs associated with mitigating potential damages since your > voice services are now subject to the same outages as your network > 4.) increased training costs for staff to become proficient in VoIP > 5.) increased costs associated with monitoring QoS > 6.) increased costs associated with reconfiguring your network for VoIP and > QoS - many times new switches may have to be purchased in addition to SBC's > etc > 7.) additional costs associated with rewiring physical space to accommodate > additional Ethernet ports required for phones Yes, 7 times. > Sometimes, if you already have digital - it may not be worth switching to > SIP even if you save a ton on the handsets. Whenever we switch over a hotel > to VoIP, we always run into these extra 'hidden' costs. > > If you want to do digital with asterisk, I think you'll need a T1/E1 > multiplexer that supports digital phones. Is this anything like a channel bank, only for digital phones? Can you suggest any examples? -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
