Absolutely. We're still in discovery and it probalby won't be a
universal solution, but the value for us is in:
1. Migration without disrupting the cust...I can extend the same
features on the same buttons they're used to and their phone doesn't
move.
2. Migration without boxing/unboxing/labor...move xconnects in the IDF.
The cat-3 premise wiring will be there whether I use it or not.
3. Migration without investing in new desktop hardware....phones are
going away; why buy new ones. Citel serves as a transitory path to soft
apps.
4. Squeezing a little more out of fully depreciated assets....I have
1,000's of legacy tdm phones that my customers like, that will most
likely last at least five more years, and can get us to a converged
uc/im/presence type environment.
Currently I'm registering my pilot users to Cisco CM, but that takes
licenses. The bet is that if I can register them to sipxecs or asterisk,
then I can bring them forward for under $100 a pop and they won't even
notice anything happened. Then the phones go away via normal attrition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Picher, Michael [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:04 AM
To: Thames, Dean M.; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [sipx-users] Citel
I keep looking at this product and wonder why people ever do
it... You are stuck with TDM cabling, old phones and the Citel device
costs like $100/port. When you can by refurb Polycom 330's for under
$100 does this product really make sense?
My $0.02.
Mike
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thames,
Dean M.
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [sipx-users] Citel
Hello,
Looking for some guidance on registering legacy Meridian phones
on a Citel TVA gateway to Sipxecs....Wondering if anyone has used these
two products together. Thanks,
Dean.
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