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Big Companies with M1 Platform 3

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NorstarOption

NorstarOption

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I used to work for Wiltel, Williams, BlackBox and so on. Just for my own reference, any big companies that still on a Nortel M1/CS1000M platform?
 
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We have several Hospitals and Hotels still using them
 
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I've kept tab on quite a few companies still using Nortel M1 and CS1000 equipment:
-Presence Resurrection Healthcare Chicago
-Amway Hotel Collection Grand Rapids, MI aka JW Marriott Amway Grand Plaza
-Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, MI
-Shoppers Drug Mart
-Hudson's Bay Company
-Saks Fifth Avenue
-Bon Ton Stores
-JCPenney
-Urban League of Chicago
-Community Healthcare System (Northwest Indiana)
-Seattle Fire Department (all facilities)
-Chicago Police Department Headquarters
-Los Angeles Emergency Management
-New York Times Newspaper
-Majority of CBS Owned Television Stations
-Disney
-Some ABC Stations (United States)
-Wegmans Grocery Stores
-Diocese of Chicago
-Franciscan St. Elizabeth Healthcare Centers (Lafayette, IN)
-Fed Ex
-Many Marriott Hotels
-Canadian National Railway
-The Toronto Star Newspaper
-The Montreal Gazette
-Lee Enterprises (News)
-The London Telegraph (London England)
-The Denver Post
-The National Hurricane Center
-The National Weather Service
-The Severe Storms Forecast Center
-Hilton Hotels (Not all hotels have Nortel, but many do such as the Wakiki Beach Hilton and Caribe Hilton in San Juan, PR)
-US Cellular Corporate
-Lake County Illinois County Government/Forest Preserve
-Riveria Maya Resorts
-Von Maur Department Stores
-San Francisco International Airport
-San Francisco Bart System
-Midwestern State University
-Valparaiso University
-Purdue University Memorial Union
-University of Illinois Union Hotel
-Microsoft (Some remote international offices still use Meridian 1 where failsafe communications is necessary)
-CVS Caremark Corporate Offices
-Masterbilt Refrigeration Products
-Grand Traverse Resorts/Turtle Creek Casinos Traverse City, MI
-Snoqualmie Casino Washington
-Lyric Opera of Chicago
-Hyatt Regency San Francisco
-Palmer House Hilton Chicago
-United States Postal Service
-Purdue University Meridian 1 Nodes tied into a SL-100/CS2100
-North Shore University Healthcare System Chicagoland
-Field Museum Chicago
-Shedd Aquarium Chicagao
-University of Michigan Hospital
-CenturyLink
-Best Buy Corporate

I am sure there are more. If I think of more, I'll add them later. Also, no guarantees every one of these companies still use Nortel phones....





Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for taking the time.
 
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Thought of a few more:

Belk Department Stores
Bon Ton's Northern Division which formerly used to be Saks, Inc. McRae's, Parisian, Proffit's, Carson's, Bergner's, Herberger's Younkers, Elder Beerman.
407 ETR Toll Road Toronto
Regis Temporary Offices
Alexian Brothers Hospital Illinois
Four Seasons Hotel Group
Westin Hotel Michigan Avenue Chicago


Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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I work at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services HQ in Michigan. We currently have a CS1000/M on the Avaya Aura platform.
 
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Also,

Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids
United Center Chicago
Guinness Brewery Dublin Ireland
Louisiana Superdome (Mercedes Benz Arena)
IKEA Retail Stores Canada
Select few Cost Plus World Market Stores
Sears Canada and Sears Mexico retail stores
Condado Plaza Hilton San Juan PR
Miami International Airport
Traverse City Record Eagle News
University of Oklahoma Tulsa
University of Wisconsin Medical Center aka UW Health



Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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Also,

Forest Hills Schools Grand Rapids area Michigan
Methodist Hospitals Merrillville and Gary Indiana
Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana (IPFW)



Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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Social Security Administration has the worlds largest VOIP network powered by CS1K.

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!
 
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You can also add:

Ottawa Civic Hospital
Ottawa Police
Ottawa Fire
Export Development Corporation (Gov. of Canada)
 
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The Meridian 1 was and is truly a bullet proof product. It will be sad to see them go. It has been my career since 1991 installing and maintaining these.
 
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Avaya has made them so expensive to upgrade everyone is jumping ship to something else. We have installed new Server Edition IPO's with all new phones cheaper than the customer can just upgrade their software and then they still have all the same old phones. Avaya is definitely trying to displace them as fast as they can. Unfortunately the IPO is quite quirky and has issue of it's own.
 
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Come on guys, I don't work for E-MetroTel. I am friends with the team, solely because I discovered them out of curiosity. I can vouch that I am one of the biggest fans of Nortel. I worked for the phone system at Purdue while in college and a huge upgrade to a SL100. I have loved Nortel M1 ever since I was in high school and the local grocery store started using them in their stores. I seriously believe in the UCx and their UCx1000 Meridian1/CS1000 upgrade. It honestly keeps 98 percent of everything you loved about the SL1/M1/CS1000 alive. I really wish you'd take a look at it. If you really want multiple DN numbers on the phones they will work it out. I am serious, the guys on their team developed the M1/CS1000 equipment you loved. I am not bluffing. Do I need to publish a video on you tube to convince you guys? I know Cisco and Avaya are the safe bet, but these guys too have built a strong portfolio of users from large Toronto hospitals to Toys R Us stores to Universities around the world. I don't understand what the hold back is especially if you loved Nortel.

Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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Joe is correct in saying that some of the guys are ex-Nortel lab engineers who started up the company when Avaya wrecked the Nortel products.

I know from the E-metro forum on Tek-tips that the product is sound. For me, the issue is not with the quality of E-Metro and who it is able to "blend" in the BCM and CS1K features and phones etc but more of a case that customers in general has simply lost confidence in Avaya.

The lengthy delays when 6.0 7.0/7.5 was around was what caused the rot to develop as confidence went rock bottom with engineers as well when support and reliability took a large knock.

You can't blame customers for wanting to move on. Most of us know that the older Nortel cube systems are old, but the quality of the kit in my opinion was in general very good as was with the option 11c range.


I still have customers from time to time pleading with me to see if they can have a few digital or analogue licenses added for their system as that is all they want because the Nortel kit does what it wants for them, but they don't want to pay thousands of pounds for an upgrade.

We still have a large number of Nortel / Avaya systems in the UK, but they are starting to go as Avaya is shrinking. They have pulled out at Maidenhead that was once the pride of Nortel.

The world has moved on.


Firebird Scrambler
Nortel Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK
Advance knowledge on BCM support
 
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As viewed by most of the comments on here, seems most of the posters on here would rather throw away their existing M1/CS1000 equipment than invest in an ideal cost effective replacement, the UCx1000 from E-MetroTel that would allow them many more years out of their CS1000 without expensive upgrades.

Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant
 
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