Soft phone and MACs

[telephonesteve]

Hi,

I have a customer who has all MACs in their office. Does Nortel or some 3rd party make a soft phone that will work between the BCM and MACs? He wants to upgrade his 15 year old phone system but he wants all softphones.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[biv343]

Only supported softphone on a Nortel system is the i2050, which only runs on PC's.

 

[telephonesteve]

Thanks. That's what I figured. I talked to their MAC guru today and he said that windows OS could be installed on the MAC and Windows could run within a window. Of course then they would have to buy 60 copies of Windows OS and that would defeat the purpose of cheaper softphone.

Thanks for the input.

 

[biv343]

I'd be curious to know if that would work - I've always wondered how Windows would work with USB devices (like a USB headset). I had a customer mention that they would try it, but they haven't as of yet.

But yes, spending a couple hundred bucks on each copy of a Windows OS blows your cost savings away in a real hurry.