On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked for a link, but didn't see it in the emails from Ken L. > Citel box I assume?
Yah, the Citel Portico TVA. Ken didn't have a direct link, but he posted a link to an Asterisk page (for other reasons), and that page linked to Citel. Citel's sales organization appears to be incompetent, though. I'm having a hard time finding anyone who is local and can offer a solution package. If anyone knows of a reasonably local entity who can provide consulting and installation services for Asterisk and Citel Portico, please refer me! :-) > That's another curiosity question. How many stations we talking? We've got a Norstar MICS. It is currently configured with 96 TCM station ports and 20 analog trunk ports, plus a NAM voice mail unit. Usage (as of today) is 87 TCM stations and 15 POTS lines. The new building will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 stations. We'll likely add four or so off-premise IP stations as well. (TCM = Time Compression Multiplexing. Nortel proprietary protocol. Digital. Runs over a single copper pair of voice grade wiring.) Brining TCM stations to our new building requires a non-trivial investment. The distance exceeds maximum for copper TCM, so we need to run fiber to the new building and put the TCM station modules in the new building. That also requires fiber "module extenders". We're out of DS-30 fiber ports on the MICS core unit, so we need to add another expansion card, plus upgrade the firmware to support that. So the plan is to go IP only in the new building. This also means we can skip running dedicated voice wiring in the new building. We can cover about half the cost of a VoIP upgrade this way, and gain all the features a modern VoIP system has. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/