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[Dirk2000]

I'm curious about peoples opinions about IP phones and whether they believe they have a distinct advnatge over trafditional phones. They seem to be more future proof but its difficult to know if these phones are worth the investment. Any advice would be appreciated

 

[lopes1211]

I see specific adavantages to very specific applications. i.e. remote workers, remote offices, small annexes of a campus where cabling costs are prohibitive. Other than that, I see no reason to spend the money. Especially now that Avaya has found 2 more RTU's they can now screw you for. First purchase station ports, then you can buy the IP Hardphone RTU's, then pay for Concurrent IP Sessions, then you'll have all the appropriate rights to spend more money and buy the actual medpro, c-lan's, and phones to get it to work. At the end of the day, there's nothing magical about it. It's just a phone on a desk.

-CL

 

[kmerck]

I agree with that statement as well. I have had numerous problems with 46xx IP sets. At this point, I believe that it just makes better sense to stick with digital sets. That is what I will be buying for new offices anyway.

 

[G van Hamburg]

Lopes,

If you migrate to S8700 (from R)or S8500 (from CSI's)you can merge your licenses to universal licenses in ACM 2.0.

So, trunks, IP-stations, TDM station are all one license.

Further I agree that IP can be usefull but before you start with it, consider the consequenses.


Plan your work............Work your plan

 

[lopes1211]

Very good news indeed!

-CL

 

[mikeydidit]

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