Nortel ATA

[FDproductions]

Does nortel make an ATA like the Cisco 188? I have a customer with an office connected by fiber and i want to put an anolog port there off the BCM. A copper connection is not an option. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[spotless]

FDproductions

Nortel does make an ATA for Analog ports...

Here are the docs:

http://www142.nortelnetworks.com/bvdoc/norstarbcm/atauser-2.pdf

Stockman16

http://www.nortelcompatibleproducts.com

 

[FDproductions]

that is for a digital phone, which i know exist. I am looking for an ethernet to analog ATA via the BCM.

Thanks for the manual though, that will come in handy.

 

[BizFoneGuy]

The BCM is the main location and there is two way fiber between it and the branch you want this analog port working in?

 

[FDproductions]

that's correct. so basically it's a remote office connected only by fiber. Then we have a switch and IP phones. i want to put a fax machine there that can use one of the BCM DID's.

 

[BizFoneGuy]

I would think that if you bought a H323 type voip unit that supplies dial tone (DLINK) and a VOIP trunk keycode you might be able to set something up?

 

[phoneguy2286]

Why is everyone recommending "trunk" IP devices. Isn't this scenerio basically an extended STATION?

 

[3Sixty]

No I think what FD needs is something that will convert an H323 device or IP phone to an analogue extension. He has no copper wires going to the remote site only fibre. This means he can not run any other type of handset except an IP phone or H323 device.

Is this for a fax machine or something if so you could go with the inbuilt fax option on the BCM. Might not be ideal but might be an option.

Marshall

http://www.marshallshouse.co.uk

 

[FDproductions]

Marshall is correct. it needs to be something that converts IP to analog.

 

[muttsnuts]

I think you're probably looking at something like a multitech voip gateway box that would have a FXS/FXO port on it. The only thing is it would probably require an IP trunk keycode to make it work. There's no such animal as an IP ATA in Nortel Land.

 

[FDproductions]

i have used the multitech voip product with an analog extension which works very well. But in this case i do not have any analog ports available, and i would need to get 2 more devices that i don't want (the two for the multiteck).

An IP ATA would be the best option, but aparently that's not available.

 

[muttsnuts]

Perhaps I did not explain myself that well. The way I see this working is that you don't have a multitech at both ends of the link, ie. BCM at one end of IP WAN and Multitech at the other. Multitech makes H.323 calls to BCM and vice-versa. Given that Multitech's implementation of H.323 is pretty good, (wouldn't be surprised if the H323 stack used is Radvision's like half the other gear out there)you should not have any interop issues with this.