Anyone get the Nortel 1140E phones working with Asterisk ? These look like great phones and I would like to start using them on our deployments. I know these will work with Asterisk but the sample config files are hard to find. My next step, if I cant find anything on this list is to purchase a Nortel Communication Server for testing. If anyone has a used NCS that works with these phone via SIP please email me off list. Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks John Bittner Simlab.net 9734333011
You're right, these phones look great ! Do you have an idea about its price (for a 100 quantity) ? It would be interesting to know how to localize its menu ? (you couldn't localize Cisco phones with SIP firmware and Asterisk). Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080212/5da5ad5c/attachment.htm
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:18:17 -0500, John Bittner wrote:>Anyone get the Nortel 1140E phones working with Asterisk ? >These look like great phones and I would like to start using them on >our deployments. I know these will work with Asterisk but the sample >config files are hard to find. My next step, if I cant find anything on >this list is to purchase a Nortel Communication Server for testing. >If anyone has a used NCS that works with these phone via SIP please >email me off list.I don't know how they would work with Asterisk, but I have used these phones. A large comapny that I work with in Philadelphia put in an all Nortel system last April. The phones are nice to use, but I find the software a little strange. Commonly used functions are a little difficult to get to. Too many keypresses. At least compared to my reference Polycom phones. There is chan_unistim for Asterisk so even the Nortel protocol firmware should be workable...as opposed to going SIP. Not that there's any reason to not use SIP. I am curious about unistim. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:mjgraves at pixelpower.onsip.com skype mjgraves fwd 54245
Hi John, I have managed to get the 1140E phones working using the UniSTIM driver compiled into my asterisk server. The config wasn't too tricky as it is very well documented. The only real problems I had was the Nortel phones talking to my LIP-68000 SIP handsets. They seemed to have some strange SIP issues. If you want I message me off-list and when I get back to the office next week I can re-try the handsets again for you. Regards, Alan John Bittner wrote:> Anyone get the Nortel 1140E phones working with Asterisk ? > These look like great phones and I would like to start using them on > our deployments. I know these will work with Asterisk but the sample > config files are hard to find. My next step, if I cant find anything on > this list is to purchase a Nortel Communication Server for testing. > If anyone has a used NCS that works with these phone via SIP please > email me off list. > > Any help on this is appreciated. > > Thanks > > John Bittner > Simlab.net > 9734333011 > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Alan Hanley FSF Member 4949 Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.