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

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

Geeez. No, this system would pull about the same power as a peecee, or maybe
peecee+monitor.

My ZTD is a 2448 with a replay voicemail system and I never even noticed the
electric hit (and New Hampshire utilities must burn gold to generate
electricity, judging from the prices). 

One should never turn down a complete phone system as they can be easily
sold for cash. The same kind of cash that buys 'puter stuff. With phones I
could get thousands for that Vodavi.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Mike Hebel [mailto:nimitz at owc.net]
~ Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:12 PM
~ To: Ethan
~ Subject: Re[2]: [geeks] Rant: Network "Industry Leaders" That Don't.
~ 
~ 
~ 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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