3100

[allworxguy]

I have a customer with multi sites. 2 sites are highend retirement residences with 3100's and under used PRI's and an SX????s for analog connections to the suites. The others are a mix of Norstar CICS and Toshiba CIX. The customer wants to interconnect all sites under a mitel platform so they can port the remote numbers to the PRI's. I realize the 3100's are discontinued. The question, can the 3100's be networked to allow access to more IP phones than the max of 55 and to interconnect the PRIs that are at different sites.

The head office has a CIX with about 25 sets. The other sites are small (under 10 phones). All sites are interconnected with 100Mb fiber hubbed from the HO. Would hanging remote IP phones be the best solution for the remote sites to give them access to to the PRIs?

Any and all ideas welcome (except dropping the Mitel platform).

Thanks.

 

[bobcheese]

As far as I am aware the 3100 is not designed to be networked to multiple 3100's they are standalone only.
As the where discontinued the development never got as far as SIP so no direct IP integration possible unless you use some sort of IP MUX to convert a private PRI connection to IP then back to PRI at the far end but this will get complicated and expensive.

You could have remote IP phones but I am not sure if the 3100 gave the capability to have VLAN's and therefore allow QoS.

My experience of 3100's is that they are very fickle things so I would not plan a central deployment around something that is renowned for breaking and has been MF discontinued.

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

BobCheese is correct. The MN3100 is an end-node device only, incapable of performing intermachine trunk-to-trunk switching. It is also quite old, approaching 10 years, which in terms of techology is fast becoming ancient history.

Bob was also much kinder in calling them "fickle" - from a support standpoint I found them something of a pain in the rear. I believe the 3100 was Mitel's first foray into VOIP phone systems and has come a very long way since those days.

Several years ago Mitel offered a trade-in/trade-up program aimed at getting as many of the MN3100s out of circulation as they could, offering customers an upgrade to the SX200ICP (The VOIP Variant of the SX200). Unfortunately that offer ran out some time ago.

If I were you I'd look at a forklift upgrade to the Mitel 3300 or MCD4 or MCD5 platform as it is current state of the art and will do what you're wanting to do.



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[allworxguy]

Thanks for your input I'll pass on my recommendations to boat anchor the 3100's to the management.