Just out of sheer curiosity...

[jpanzer]

Does anyone know if there was a way that you can expand a Norstar over a VPN tunnel? Although I don't have anything to do with it now, I had a customer at my previous work who had a Norstar initially. They moved over to a BCM50 in late 2008 and are now expanding exponentially and are facing having to buy keycodes for IP phones, CallPilot, and the phones themselves.

But, my question is: would they have been able to install add-on fiber modules to their equipment and route the traffic over a VPN connection? Initially they had a DSL connection at each point with a VPN router and a tunnel bridging the two locations. I think it would have saved them money from upgrading, and allowed them to expand at the same time with no cost except for phones. Of course, this was all done before I came on the scene.

Thanks

John Panzer

 

[curlycord]

Are they each at home or another location with several users?


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[cook1082]

There is a Norstar gateway.

 

[fireeater]

it all comes down to bandwidth

vpn tunnels are only as good as the bandwidth they provide

if the speed is good enough you can pump a t1 though it and connect 2 systems

but keep in mind dsl's and cable may give you 5 ,6 ,7 ,even 15 meg downloads ,but i've only seen max 1.5meg uploads and that is the one that gets ya.

if for instance you have ip sets with a codec that uses 200kb per set then you could only have 7 sets with a 1.5meg upload
and that's theoretical ,the tunnel is only as good as the slowest point

HALLOWED ARE THE ORI

mike

http://www.ics-on.ca

 

[jpanzer]

They had just two sites: the 1st site (visitor's center) housed the Norstar unit and had several people working there. The other building, the 2nd site (operations center) had several other people working there as well.

Sad part about their DSL was... they only had a 384K upload... and the max AT&T provides around here for DSL is 6M/512K.

They ended up getting a point-to-point T1 with Cisco routers while I was there. Improved the voice quality SO very much on the BCM. Sad thing is, now they have to expand, and keycodes are expensive... and they are a non-profit organization running a humongous park in the middle of the city. The VC and OC are about 1.5 - 2 miles away from each other.

John Panzer

 

[fireeater]

if both buildings are on the same property ,it may be cheper (in the long run) to run a fiber

HALLOWED ARE THE ORI

mike

http://www.ics-on.ca

 

[jpanzer]

Exactly, fireeater, and I think that's what the plan is/was. I don't know what is going to become of that, but they are in fact located on the same property. One building is at the extreme NW corner of the property, while the other is about midway in the SW corner of the property. It is an irregular property line on the W side, as it runs NW for most of the property and then makes some zig-zags and turns.

John Panzer

 

[curlycord]

The Norstar Gateway would allow you to hook up one Norstar to another (or BCM etc)using trunk ports.

http://products.nortel.com/go/produ...catId=null&parId=0&prod_id=42064&locale=en-US

The MCK Gateways could allow you to hookup say a 0X16 (extend fiber) at the remote site or extend phones depending on model.

http://www.citel.com/Products/EXTender/Models.asp

Both via the internet or point to point T1 etc.




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