> > I signed off on the spec, so I was/am part of the problem in the > > business sense, but at some point the vendor should be tell us we're > > stuffing popcorn up a dead goats nose instead of fiddling around with > > the thing trying to make it work for 2 years. > > > > > What is wrong with the Nortel solution? Must be serious to consider an > upgrade after 2 years!
There's not really anything wrong with it, but it's not an ideal solution for where the business is going.. As per my other post the business is consolidating to one building from two. The current solution splits the telephony into two chunks, and is no ideal from a management or operational point of view. Also in the last two years SIP has become mainstream, IP handsets have become main stream and to some extent vendor agnostic. Although it is likely that we will just move to a larger/better nortel solution, it would be ignorant not to at least asses other options, and that's what I'm doing here, and in conversations with conventional vendors. Bearing in mind also that the biggest real issue for me is the monthly running cost rather than the capital outlay it's probably a slightly academic exercise, but one worth the effort I feel. Cheers, Me.
