SIP in higher education

[John Todd <>]

The question came up today on the conference call about the company 
that produces legacy digital-to-SIP converters.  The company is 
called Citel (http://www.citel.com/) and I have had some direct 
experience with them.  It seems like a pretty useful device for those 
schools who have a large installed base of handsets that they wish to 
avoid re-purchasing, but I don't know what the cost model looks like 
since I'm just in the tech department and things like "dollars per 
port" I try to avoid asking about if I can at all help it.

I've performed testing on the Citel devices, and I've been fairly 
pleased with their functionality.  I have not done a "full" test of 
features (VMI, session-timers, bridged line appearances, etc.) but 
the platform works quite well in the other tests I have done and is 
not difficult to set up via the web-based interface.  I am using 
Meridian phones as my testbed, and have used Asterisk as the 
proxy/registrar.  "It works" is my short summary.

They convert Meridian (many models), Norstar, Avaya Definity, NEC, 
Ericsson, Panasonic, Toshiba, and others into SIP signalling.

JT

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John Todd
Networking, Tello Corp.

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