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Ed:
Thanks for the willingness to help! I will do a bit of research on the system you mentioned.

Stephanie:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will look into this.

I also had someone reccomend the Samsung iDCS 500 to me in an email, and he offered to help me if I went the Samsung route.

Thats the main thing, That you have someone that will help you if you do this yourself. I think there are many things that we can do if we have to, but installing a telephone system is not one of them, unless you are on Giligans Island, and there is not a phone tech with you. There are many here that will help you out, but you must remember that most of us has done this for years and are trained at it, and some, for some harder stuff, may want to be paid to assist you.
We all do wish you well, and hope to hear how it goes for you.

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Voice and Data Cabling in DFW, [email protected]
DnR Communications

I have done some research, and it seems like the Nortel system is the most widely available and easiest to get my hands on. I also found a dealer who uses ebay who seems to have the best prices. Tomorrow I will probably call him to negotiate a package and to feel him out to see if he will offer good support. Yes, it is all new equipment, and comes with the manuals. Another plus for Nortel is one of the owners has used a Meridian 616 system for about 10 years and is familiar with it, and has 5 or 10 phones that would be compatible with the new system.

This is going to be fun

Will installing this system get me installer status on this forum?

Thanks again to several people who have emailed me offering advice and help

Here's a whole different idea...

Since you're in computer engineering, think about an Asterix system, a softswitch that runs on a Linux box. Open source software, fairly inexpensive hardware, and scalability.

Just google it up...

As far as lack of experience goes, I've trained and certified literally hundreds of phone men, and I can recall only one or two that "wanted to be a phone man when he grew up". A lot of us just fell into this biz, myself included--as in: "you were hired to do this... But you also have to do this... Here's the color codes and a buttset, now go and get this Fujitsu Starlog (the ugliest system I ever had to deal with)up on your back"

jsaxe

I did run across asterix, and it looks interesting to me, but I know that the owners won't like the idea.

The deal I am looking at includes a Norstar MICS configured for 8x32 with caller ID, callpilot 100, and 10 T7316E phones for about $x,000 shipped. The one and only installer in the area estimates $x,000 installed, and Verizon $x,000

It looks like I will only be getting 4 phones, so it will be under $x,000 for the equipment.

edit:
Ah, sorry about that, I did not know there was a rule against posting prices.

[This message has been edited by squeakygeek (edited August 04, 2005).]

PLEASE DONT PUT PRICES IN AN OPEN FORUM......

PLEASE MOVE TO INSTALLERS FORUM.......

This guy's not an installer!

-Hal

We will soon find out!

Good luck squeakygeek installing is fun until the sH#T hits the fan in the middle of a cut over. May the breeze blow your way.

Breed, it sounds like you actually want me to screw up...