Absolutely it works great as a legacy System,I had used TVA with Asterisk without any issue.Recently shifted to SipX and a month back n did a interop test on TVA based on http://interop.pingtel.com/ ,and found no issue at all ,no integration problem.(Though i had to update the recent firmware from citel).Most amazing feature is there key mappings,i dont have to remember new keys.
________________________________________ From: Picher, Michael [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:49 PM To: Thames, Dean M.; [email protected] Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Citel I have just wondered how functional the phones will be. I doubt the system will behave exactly as their legacy system did… pleasantly surprised if it does though! From: Thames, Dean M. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:47 AM To: Picher, Michael; [email protected] Subject: RE: [sipx-users] Citel 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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