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We were recently quoted for a CIX100 cabinet and reusing the existing phone jacks with regular digital speakerphones. Is it worth to migrate to VoIP? Supposedly the CIX100 can handle either but I guess the phone stations are different and we would have to run additional network drops? I dunno...total babe in the woods when it comes to VoIP here.

Thanks.

Fill pretty good about yourself calling yourself a babe in the woods.


Oh you mean your not knowledgeable not saying your good looking :rolleyes:

The new 3000 series of phones, 3014, 3020, 3010, etc. have a fixed speed dial button and a wider display and your older 2020, 2010., etc. will work perfectly fine on the newer BDKU/S cards that replace the PDKU cards and the PDDKU cards will work in it with your 2000 series phones.

The PCOU AND RCOU/S2 cards will function but supposedly you get poor voice quality. The RCOU3 three is a good replacement bet but you can try the old ones if you like. The PSTU/RSTU cards work fine for single line stuff but I don't know if they have the same voice quality problem-RSTU-3 is the new single line card.

I don't see any real point in trading in perfectly good digital phones and running new Cat.5e to use a VOIP phone. The big deal about the VOIP phones is the ability to use one at home or in another office and be an extension off the base system.

With the CIX you need licenses for IP phones per phone, and your network needs to be rock solid and set up properly to get good performance from the IP phones.

The RCOU1 works just as good as the RCOU3 unless you're using IP. If you have any IP cards in the system, all analog cards must be version 3.

I can see no reason for wanting to spend the money to go VOIP on that system within your building. VOIP is mainly used for remote offices or for people working from home.

Thanks. Yeah...babe in the woods as in ignorant and nothing to do with my ogre appearance

OUR SITUATION

Small office...about 12-18 folks. Local/Toll/LD phone service from AT&T coming into the building over fiber...maybe a T1 with 7 lines (7 phone numbers + Internet). One receptionist with a lunchtime backup. We currently have a huge Nortel Norstar system from '95 that's flaking out and was installed when we had like 40-50 people here.

So do you need to wire new network drops for the VoIP phone stations or can the phones be somehow piggybacked on the existing network drop going into the destop PCs?

The phones can be "piggybacked" on your existing network drops for the PCs. The phones have an "In" and an "Out" so that you can plug the phone into the LAN jack and the pc into the phone.