[geeks] Rant: Network "Industry Leaders" That Don't.

[Mike Hebel]

Oddly enough I had a chance at one of the large Vodavi 24x48 Star systems.
Complete with phones.  I passed on it when I realized what my electric bill
would be for running the "big black box" all the time.

Personally I like the smaller Panasonic analog systems.  I know the
phones sucked but they would do everything I need them to do.  Of course
ideally the proper solution would be wireless Voice Over IP. ;-)

>> Actually, we've had a "who is a phone geek" thread before. Some of us
>> (myself included) run key-systems/hybrids/pbx's at home. I have a wide
>> assortment of Iwatsu ZTD stuff at home.

E> We were running both a Comdial and a Merlin Legend, but now are only
E> Merlin Legend. :-) The Comdial was reliable, the Merlin Legend has had
E> some wierd problems. The phones would all kind of lock up, where the
E> buttons don't work -- but you can answer on them. If you unplug a phone
E> for about 5 days it would work for 1 more day (the buttons). I recabled
E> things around the house and swapped all the phones out and haven't had the
E> problem since... but I still would like to know why that happened.

E> I'd have a definity G3 if I could find one cheap enough.

E> A DMS100 to switch a single residential house. That would be funny.

E> I'm actually looking to buy a 2nd CPU carrier and power supply for the
E> merlin legend. I'm splitting my system and moving part of it to the new
E> biz space (2 408MLX card, the 012 analog card, the 7.0 CPU board and the
E> power supply with the ring generator). Going to take the Audix box to the
E> shop also. Also looking in to these new Cisco 816s? I forget the model #,
E> but its a $180 dual port VOIP unit. It is like, a dream come true as far
E> as rouge cheap VoIP networks.

E> I'd like to network the Merlin Legend at home to the one at the shop via
E> VoIP units, but I don't think it will be possible, I will just have to
E> select an outside line hooked to the Cisco then hit a programmed macro to
E> dial the IP address or something wierd.


E> PS. I have the vendor 7.0 Merlin LEgend upgrade card if anyone would like
E> a hit. :-)

E>                                 -- Ethan
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Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net