atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Nortel Telephones & Systems Max stations on a BCM50

The only reference to max sets I've found so far is in the System Overview Guide.

I'm Maxed at 44 digital, and have 1 analog line for conference phone. I was going to add 10 IP sets for a total line count of 55. Our facility cannot accommodate more employees so this would be our maximum number of lines from here on out.

My question is about performance. So it appears that using IP, it is possible to go over 50 lines, but performance may degrade (according to Sys Overview guide). We have no more than 10-12 heavy phone users (sales), at least 10-12 lines that have VERY minimal use and the remaining lines are general use.

What do you guys think? Do you think performance would even be an issue?

I don't think performance should be an big problem, as we don't demand much of the BCM's resources to begin with.

Thanks in advance.

32 IP / 44 Digital on Release 5.0

My own experience tells me that performance would not be an issue in the least - Nortel is not in the habit of "under-engineering"...

Just "under-testing" :\

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32 IP / 44 Digital on Release 5.0

Hmmm, curlycord is out to lunch I think?

Was thinking 3.0 and under had 12 but probably IP trunks.

When I was a project manager for 360networks here in canada, the toronto office had a MICS that was fully loaded. I mean full full. I mean full including companion and 2 PRI. Every station port had a phone. We were migrating them out of the norstar and installing a 3 cabinet Option11c.
The reason i post this bit of history is because it was likely the only time i'll ever get to see that.

What is relative here is the overloaded-ness of the MICS, the switchboard was VERY slow to respond. We had to program a real transfer button to a key because it was sometimes a full 5 seconds before the display updated - and gave them the transfer soft key. Users found it impossible to transfer during the busy times if they didn't have a transfer key, 8 to 10 seconds before Feature: appeared.

On busy days, the switchboards would bog down, and the users had to make people wait to be answered because the phone physically would not keep up on basic transfers and display updating.

Keeping that in mind, I would surmise that the bcm50 could also run out of resources or have slow response times if loaded down to maximums.