BCM 4.0 versus 3.7 3

[lavrunin]

We currently have 3 BCMs in operation. One is on 3.7 and the others are on 3.6. We have considered upgrading the 3.6 to 3.7 but I was wondering if at this point it might make more sense to upgrade all to 4.0.

 

[nsantin]

as far as I know 4.0 is a significanlly different version then 3.7

3.x is NT based
4.0 in Linux based

Personally im waiting for 4.1

 

[LJDirk]

in 4.0 you have an Second Dial Tone. User dial the Accesscode for outdialing over the Network. At this time he don´t hear a Dial Tone.
In Rel4.0 he hear it from the BCM. This is helpfully.

 

[SupportDude]

Like nsantin mentioned, future releases of BCM will be on a Linux platform.

I recall reading that legacy BCM's will be upgradable to 4.0, but only from rls 3.7.

SD

 

[lavrunin]

Thanks for the replies so far. Nortel is getting away from NT and going to LINUX so the future of the BCM is LINUX based. I have seen very little information from NORTEL about 4.0. I don't see upgrading to 3.7 at this point if in 4 months it will not be supported. Wanted to know when 4.0 might be released and what its stability is.
Thanks,

 

[danthephoneman]

Nortel says the release date for 4.0 is sometime in the secound quater of 2006 around the end of April.A couple of new features is 40 party conf. calling, eliminating Basic call center and having call center set up by number of skillsets or agents purchased thru keycodes,support for 24 kim module for i2004 sets,support for new 1100 series ip sets, and a few other changes. Upgrading will be supported from 3.6, the steps for the upgrade are not available yet that I know of. Hope this helps.

 

[nsantin]

40 party conf. calling"

Oh that's awsome news!!! I might just jump on 4.0 before 4.1 afterall.

here is a star for making my day.

 

[endlesswinter]

When upgrading to this new OS will the BCM need to be reprogramed?

 

[danthephoneman]

According to the latest Nortel bulliten I have, the upgrade preserves telephony and voice messaging data, but it looks like you are going to have to regenerate keycodes.The projected upgrade time looks to be about 90-120 min.

 

[hawks]

When you say regenerate keycodes I hope you mean that NORTEL will do that as part of the upgrade. Somthing like they did with the PBX when upgrading to the Communications platform.

 

[nsantin]

Do you know if there will be hardward upgrades? Will they plan on swapping the drive with a pre-loaded one? Or will it be an inplace upgrade of the OS?

 

[3Sixty]

The other thing is Microsoft will be pulling support for the NT embedded platform in July.Nortel have support from Microsoft untill the end of this year. Simply put any problems with the NT platform after this year will not be fixed or supported by Nortel. My advice upgrade to the Linux platform as soon as you can less problems with OS better support open platform more fixes less bugs.

Marshall

http://www.marshallshouse.co.uk

 

[danthephoneman]

Hawks, as far as the regeneration of keycodes,I believe you will get a auth. code and have to regenerate the keycodes with the system i.d. on the KRS website as part of the upgrade. The documentation I have so far says nothing about hardware upgrades.

 

[3Sixty]

Hi Dan

Did you get the info from the Nortel site or where you sent the info from someone in Nortel.

Marshall

http://www.nortelsupport.net

 

[NARSBARS]

danthephoneman
Has the straight scoop. Have been involved with the Beta and the quoted installation is correct. You will be able to upgrade from 3.6.

Do not upgrade to anything but 3.6 before 4.0 there are nightmares resulting from upgrading to 3.7. Dead registrys, blown installations of all types. I would check all of my BCMs against the Nortel BFT and MSC recall lists before anything else. You can get defective equipment replaced before the end of the year for free.

NARSBARS

 

[danthephoneman]

Marshall,the documentation I have was part of a channel partner presentation about 4.0. by the way great website.

 

[3Sixty]

I must have missed it I have access to the PIC but did not see anything. Could be because I fall under EMEA area.

Marshall

http://www.nortelsupport.net

 

[3Sixty]

Hi Dan any improvements on the simple things.

Longer names (rather than 7 digits)

Alternative routes in day rather than just night.

More pickup groups?

Any more IP sets?

http://www.nortelsupport.net

 

[3Sixty]

Thanks Marshall

http://www.nortelsupport.net

 

[danthephoneman]

They did not get into any improvements on the smaller stuff, and there is nothing about any more capacity or resouces as of yet.