The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

[mjwald]

We are looking at Cisco solution for our Health System

We have 5000+ handsets, 40+ physical locations, Business offices, call centers, etc...

This would be a full enterprise system, single dial plan, mail, call center, redundancy....

Looking for input, whats good, whats not so good.

Thanks

 

[trvlr1]

If you are planning on all IP phones, after the learning curve, you will have a pretty stable system, provided you have a good network and good UPS set up to start with.
If you have a lot of analog lines, that is where the cisco system is somewhat weak in my opinion - for instance voltages out of the VG224 is not as high as say a Nortel system, so your distances will diminish accordingly. If you only have a couple of analog lines, for faxes etc, get telco lines installed directly to the equipment, not through the Call Manager, you will have far fewer headaches.

 

[mjwald]

That's good to know.
We have just a few analog devices, around 1000.
Does it put out at least 24V?
There was discussion of using an old Nortel option 11 to handle all the analog devices.