I just did some reading on these Citel's actually and it is designed for integrating older digital phones into a SIP PBX.
Pricing is a little high but if it's a larger install and the client gets to keep their trusty and familiar handsets without having to pay $100-$200 per phone to upgrade, the value is there for them to implement it. ________________________________ From: Philip Mullis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 6, 2007 9:40 PM To: Dave Donovan; Asterisk Group (E-mail) Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Nortel Integration You really want to look at using the new citel gateways they are killer for intergrating old sets :) ________________________________ From: Dave Donovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 06/03/2007 8:28 PM To: Asterisk Group (E-mail) Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Nortel Integration Hi Roy, Jim Van Meggelen, a TAUG member and co-author of "Asterisk, The Future of Telephony" did a presentation on that topic over a year ago. I think that was our first PodCast. You should be able to find a link to it on the taug.ca <http://taug.ca/> website. Jim's company does this stuff routinely. I'm not sure how big your system is or what the details are, but always felt like you had to have some pretty specific needs to justify fully integrating Asterisk with an old Nortel box. I've done half measures before. What I have done in cases where PRIs is used, is put the Asterisk box inline with the PRI so that the Nortel box doesn't know the difference but I can still dial between them and out to the PSTN. IE Bell <--> PRI <--> Nortel In an Avaya environment I put the Asterisk box on a lineside PRI but I wasn't really using it as a PBX as much as an IVR. It worked nicely though. Once I have the systems tied together, I've migrated one or two departments. I moved IT because they give good feedback and you can tell them to suck it up if somethings not quite perfect yet. Another thought is to pick a non-critical, non-technical department because it's nice to get feedback from non-geeks. I hope this helps, Dave On 3/5/07, Roy Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G'day, I have been working with our Asterisk system for a while now and getting close to final stages. I hate the thought of just pushing all the users over to a new system over night and hoping for the best ;) Anyone seen any integration between the old Nortel stuff and Asterisk (hardware/software) ? My current plan just uses a box that converts my existing Meridian phones to SIP. Thanks in advance for any advice. Roy
