Robert Augustyn wrote: > Can you connect existing Nortel system to Asterisk through fxs/fxo? > That way one could use existing infrastructure for few old phones and > Asterisk for new phones and all good things which come with it?
No. They are digital phones and use proprietary Nortel signalling. The "too bad" thing about Nortel is that, when all your infrastructure is Nortel, it's pretty solid, reliable stuff, and in its day it was also pretty amazing. There's a reason why their PBX hardware was the most widely deployed in North America. Every technology has its day, though, and Nortel has been milking its contribution since 1975. The new IP stuff is unimpressive; I considered getting BCM certification once but when I looked at the equipment costs, I just shuddered. No sane business operator would pay those prices, and most of the insane ones are already in jail. Your best bet is to sell the sets you already have and replace them with appropriate IP hardware (you might even consider Aastra, which inherited most of Nortel's conventional telephony portfolio and has done great things with it); you can still get good money for used Nortel digital sets; many people are perfectly happy with their systems and I expect they'll be around for some time to come. -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
