Panasonic Phone Business 1

[phones001]

I recently heard a rumor that someone might buy the Panasonic business telephone business. Anyone else hear that?

Would be nice if someone could keep it going and maybe trim it down a bit. I think they tried to get into the much larger 1000 plus business with the NSX and had way to many applications like CA, CA Pro, Poltys...

Should have just kept the business simple with the NS700 and 700G. The new DT680 phones are very nice when compared to any other digital phone available.

Still a need for on premise (single pair) systems.

 

[Ired1980]

Hope so, but I think that what you're talking about is just wishful fillment.

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Telephony communication is like an air: you do not notice it until you spoil it.

 

[CMUK]

Not much to choose from, we are trying out NEC, not a big fan so far

Calum M
ACSS

 

[phones001]

Yes we are evaluating the SL2100 and the programming seems way to complicated. Could also use some new phones that don't need the silly desi button labels as this is so 80's.

 

[omonat]

Cisco 3PCC Phones with Yeastar just does it well. Most SIP Phones actually work well. Grandstream, Snom, Vtech etc

Wanet Telecoms Limited

 

[CMUK]

Problem we are seem to be having is SIP phones are no good when the building is covered in CW1308

Calum M
ACSS

 

[telcodog]

Emetrotel has their Digital phones working on their system so you can retain your investment in the endpoints. Conversion is very simple because you don't have to mess with any existing wiring either. The emetro system also supports pretty much any sip phone out there so it's a good replacement for a Panasonic.

 

[phones001]

I checked the Emetrotel site and it doesn't mention anything about Panasonic support just Avaya and Nortel. Do you have these working? If so what models, DT6XX, DT5XX?

Do they work exactly as they would on an NS or TDE?

Thanks

 

[telcodog]

Support for Panasonic is pretty new but these guys do a great job once they start something and are continually improving the product line. There's not a lot of info on the website about them yet but her's a start:

https://www.emetrotel.com/tsd/content/panasonic-digital-phone-beta-trial-readiness

I spoke with someone there yesterday (yes on the long weekend) about the KX-DT343 and they told me that these will work also.

They won't work exactly like they do on a Panasonic box but what you get is the best of Panasonic and Nortel features but that would be up to you to decide.

 

[TimmyMK3]

We are evaluating Zultys (zultys.com) for our 175 retail locations, all of which are currently running a flavor of Panasonic PBX (TDA, TDE, NS700). I know the lead tech I was working with from Panasonic and several others picked up jobs there. Their solutions appear to be very solid and competitive. We are definitely vetting them out.

 

[phones001]

We have plenty of Voip options but many sites here in NJ have very old cabling which is to costly to replace so we need a digital product. The NEC does a lot but the digital sets (back to Desi printing) just sucks. Why they can't make the phone with slip in paper labels like Panasonic I don't know.

 

[omonat]

Phones001, Exactly the same issue we face here while migrating large companies to VoIP. We ended up adopting pain-free slow migration approaches where we would replace only the PBX and maintain the Phones. Cheap analog phones channel banks helped us to achieve this & interconnected all sites with analog phones and a few IP Sets. Where we had many Digital sets, we maintain the PBX and introduce an IP Gateway. The clients never felt the pain (cost implication) till full migration.

Emetrotel looks like an Asterisk-based system. Does anybody know what they have done to make asterisk support Panasonic KX-DT5XX series phones?

Wanet Telecoms Limited

 

[random192]

@Omonat

Looks like custom firmware on the digital station module they use and/or custom asterisk modules. You have to set the firmware on the DSM to be either Nortel Norstar, Nortel Meridian, Avaya, or Panasonic.

 

[omonat]

@ random192, does the DSM work with any SIP-Based server?

Wanet Telecoms Limited

 

[random192]

@Omonat

No, it's unique to emetrotel systems/software vat the moment.