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norstarboy125 (Vendor) said:
>It would of made more sense to just ditch that old dinosaur and upgrade it to at least a MICS. That thing did it's job and then some but for how cheap you can pick up a refurb 0x32 cabinet it's a no brainer to take the upgrade path. Anyway I'm sure a older version of NRU can accommodate you with a backup of the system.
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What would we gain and loose with an MICS? We have 8 lines with CID, 4 DID trunks serving probably 15 or 20 DID lines, ~36 sets (M7100, m7208, m7310, m7324, ?t7312?), Startalk flash mail. How much of this would transfer to the MICS? How much would NOT transfer?
What is currently actively supported (Avaya BCM?) that will allow us to continue using the same phone sets or at least as much of the old system as possible?
It appears that the 8x24 system does everything we need, is almost bullet-proof and is available at very low cost. How long are they going to be around??
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norstarboy125 said:
>You should really call in a Norstar tech on this one, not something the average person wants to attempt.
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Do you happen to know any good Norstar techs in western New Brunswick, Canada? The NBTel ones that installed this have all retired and the telco no longer supports Norstar (they support a system where they do all the set changes back at the switch in town and charge $75 for every change...)
David Meed
norstarboy125 (Vendor) said:
>It would of made more sense to just ditch that old dinosaur and upgrade it to at least a MICS. That thing did it's job and then some but for how cheap you can pick up a refurb 0x32 cabinet it's a no brainer to take the upgrade path. Anyway I'm sure a older version of NRU can accommodate you with a backup of the system.
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What would we gain and loose with an MICS? We have 8 lines with CID, 4 DID trunks serving probably 15 or 20 DID lines, ~36 sets (M7100, m7208, m7310, m7324, ?t7312?), Startalk flash mail. How much of this would transfer to the MICS? How much would NOT transfer?
What is currently actively supported (Avaya BCM?) that will allow us to continue using the same phone sets or at least as much of the old system as possible?
It appears that the 8x24 system does everything we need, is almost bullet-proof and is available at very low cost. How long are they going to be around??
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norstarboy125 said:
>You should really call in a Norstar tech on this one, not something the average person wants to attempt.
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Do you happen to know any good Norstar techs in western New Brunswick, Canada? The NBTel ones that installed this have all retired and the telco no longer supports Norstar (they support a system where they do all the set changes back at the switch in town and charge $75 for every change...)
David Meed
