Re: Nortal Voice with Cisco phone integration

Hi John,

I have many customers who have IP based telephone systems co-existing,
typically Cisco and Nortel/Avaya.

It completely depends on the hardware and version of the Nortel based
system. For example, if it is a CS1000 release 4 onwards, with
signalling server and SIP licences you could connect the two systems
with a SIP trunk and modify the dialling plan accordingly. This way any
digital or analogue handsets would continue to function and use the
CS1000 as the gateway to the Cisco system. I find that approximately
half the cost of a forklift replacement is the cost of handsets. This
would give you the option to migrate to the new Cisco handsets at your pace.

If that isn't an option, and the Nortel phones are 1120e/1140e then you
can firmwire update them to SIP. You could then register them as a SIP
endpoint on the Call manger.

If neither is the case, and you are running an older option 11c with no
IP functionality (digital and analogue line cards) then you could
upgrade it to release 6 (includes keeping the chassis and line cards but
replaces the processor card) and enable IP SIP trunks. Or just
decommission it and roll out Cisco IP phones. The choice is yours.

regards Andy

john kennedy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have existed voice infrastructure (Nortal based), and we just bought Cisco
> solution (unified communication manager version 7), is there any way that we
> can integrate the nortal phones with call manager phones and integrate them as
> one network.
>
> Any hint or clue will be highly appreciated
>
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Received on Mon Aug 23 2010 - 22:40:09 ART