Looking for Opinions

[jbrianlanc]

I am in the process of proposing a BCM400 for a customer. This will be the first time for us installing a BCM400 with remote IP sets in a remote office. I was interested in the opinion of the viewers as to the best way to configure this system. I was thinking a VPN tunnel to the main office housing the BCM. During our Nortel training we really never addressed this. Any comments or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Justin

 

[Deweyhumbolt]

You are correct--VPN.

Adversity is Opportunity

 

[vztech]

Don't forget to include something with POE.

The local power supplies for the sets are not great.

It's only dialtone-VZ

 

[carlossip]

If you are going to propose a BCM solution then you should be looking at the BCM50 R3.0 or BCM450 R1, going forward these will be the main BCM platforms. For both options you then have addtional IP set models that you can offer and features which are not available on the BCM400 R4.0 e.g. Meet-Me Conferencing. Registering IP Phones from remote locations to the BCM system, will be fairly straight forward using either customer LAN/WAN, VPN or Internet. In either case you will need to ensure required Firewall ports are enabled for BCM/IP Phone traffic.