Avaya vs. Nortel - Campus VoIP Deployment

[telecomteen]

Hi everyone,

I've been asked to do some research regarding a VoIP implementation for a small-mid size university. Currently, the college utilizes over 6000 Centrex lines. No PBX is in place. Our current telecom provider only deals with Nortel, and therefore is recommending a Nortel system. While I am somewhat vendor neutral, I believe Avaya has a stronger background in VOIP than Nortel. Any ideas, etc?

Thanks,
Matthew

 

[RTMCKEE]

The guys from CE"X" level who left cisco to turn nortel "around", just quit. That probably says alot about the company. Seems like it was 3 or 4 C level execs.

I have not heard anything oneway or the other about Nortel's voip. Just the fact that the come from a telephony back ground rates them higher than cisco in my book.


RTMCKEE

CM 2.1.1
Prologix R9.05
Modular Messaging 1.1

 

[bigsmellycat]

Take a look at Empire State College in upstate NY. VOIP all over with remote workers, remote survivable sites, lots of POE IP sets on the desks with extreme switches. It works great.

 

[eclemente]

I've been reading some technology magazine that conducted an independent testing on VOIP. Out of the systems they have tested AVAYA came to the top. It said that Nortel did not want to participate on the testing.


Edgar Clemente