The biggest shortcoming of the Citel gateways is their price. In my experience, the customer ususally feels that there is not enough savings to justify keeping their old phones, and so they elect to go with new.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Dancy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: March 7, 2007 10:09 AM > To: Asterisk Group (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Nortel Integration > > 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 > > > >
