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Okay, I'm feeling a little stupid here.... But I'm gonna ask anyway. You mention support and firmware on the Ci$co phones. I understand the support item. I guess it makes sense that the phones have firmware. Does it have to be updated or changed or messed with that often? -because SIP UA's control the features (conference/transfer/redial etc) and each UA is under constant development to provide new features this will most likely be a requirement to keep current with the available features. If there is an article somewhere that covers this I'd love to read it. It seems like most of the VOIP marketing-speak is aimed at companies with mega$$$ who want to spend $500/head on it. We're a tad smaller and we have $ to spend not $$ or $$$ or $$$$. :) Worse yet, we need $ to go find and bring back it's friends. :) Anyhow, I haven't seen anything that really tackles moving from a CISC Nortel Meridian KSU to a IP based system. I'm guessing that this is Nortel's absolute worst nightmare. It seems like they trickle down the technology from the large switches to the micro PBX systems. - http://www.citel.com/index/index.asp I saw this yesterday and this may be an option for folks like you that have a big investment in handsets but want new features. I have no idea what one of these boxes costs but it looked interesting. Seems to be a play from Mitel to penetrate other mfg's installed bases with the 3300 ICP product. Remember that * is really a PBX where pretty much every system commercially available (other than class 5 equipment) is a hybrid of Key System technology and PBX functionality. Good Luck Jason Kawakami Open Telephony Labs, LLC Salt Lake City, UT _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
