[Asterisk-Users] Lucent Phones

[Steve Towlson]

Hi,

I've only just picked up on this thread, and being responsible for engineering activities at Citel Technologies, I have a direct interest in some of the points being discussed.  For the purpose of this forum, I'll keep this response brief, but for anybody involved in actual business opportunities that Citel products may help with, please don't hesitate to contact me directly using the details below.

Yes, Citel Technologies does have a range of gateway products that enable a SIP application server (IP-PBX or SoftSwitch) to communicate with legacy digital phones.  The legacy phones remain fully functional and appear to the app server as IP phones, but the legacy phones still 'believe' they are connected to the original PBX.  The end users can retain their investment in the telephones, and the copper from the MDF to the desks, but they migrate their telephony system to IP.  As far as possible we maintain the same user experience on the legacy phone, but enable the phone to support the additional features provided by the new host application server.  The SIP stack on our gateway has been developed in-house and incorporates many standard business phone features that legacy phone users expect.

We offer support for legacy phones from leading manufacturers such as Nortel, Lucent/Avaya, NEC and Rolm, and we are adding more to the list on an ongoing basis.  We have a number of customers already using Asterisk (SIP) to support various legacy phone types and we believe this particular market has tremendous potential.

Regards,
Steve Towlson

VP Engineering
Citel Technologies Ltd.
Tel: +44 115 931 5115
Mob: +44 7801 979 137
steve.towlson at citel.com



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Also, check out www.citel.com This company claims to have SIP adaptors for Avaya's digital PBX phones. If they work as advertised, you can keep your Avaya/Lucent phones, throw out your legacy PBX, and connect them all to Asterisk! However, I doubt they have all the display integration working correctly. Anyone know for sure? 

Ron Dutt

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Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Lucent Phones 

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com <mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com> [mailto:asterisk-users- 
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Lucent Phones > 

> Does Asterisk work with Lucent or any other PBX phone systems???? 
> 

Sure. You can use Asterisk as a VoIP gateway to your existing legacy PBX. You can't plug Lucent's (Avaya's) DCP, MLX, or ATL phone sets into an Asterisk box -- the protocols are all proprietary. But you can certainly connect between the systems using analog or T1/Ei connections. 

Regards, 

Steve 

Steven Sokol
Owner/Manager 
Sokol & Associates, LLC 

Phone: 816.822.1807 
IaxTel: 700.613.9004 
Web: <http://www.sokol-associates.com>