On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin, > > What motivation would a company like Nortel have for embracing an open > source IP telephony platform when they already have IP support in many of > their products? > > Stan >
Nortel is starting to come around to realizing that the open source model has benefits even to a company of its size. I am not going to pretend to know about every phone system that Nortel makes, but to the best of my knowledge, the SCS product (based on sipX) is the only SIP-based IP PBX that they offer in this segment of the market. I've only been at Nortel (this time around) for a month or so, so my product knowledge may be spotty, but this is what I've heard. Other Nortel IP PBX/phone offerings (such as the BCM) have used other, often proprietary, protocols. As for Asterisk, I should mention that sipX and Asterisk have a bit of a rivalry between them, which flared again when Nortel bought Pingtel last month for the rights to the sipX software. I have actually never installed Asterisk, but it is on my list of stuff I really need to do, if for no other reason than to better understand the differences between it and sipX. So, while I can't help anyone troubleshoot Asterisk installs, I'd be more than happy to show you how to get sipX up and running, and would gladly accept help in getting Asterisk installed on one of my systems sometime. Kevin
