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| Originally Posted by sillejo WOW Marty...live in the now  I think it was 1999 when they didn't support faxing or modems. |
As I said, my opinion is not unbiased. When I worked for an Avaya Business Partner (left that job about a year ago) we always had a problem integrating a Cisco and an Avaya phone system together.
DCS is an Avaya only product and Cisco probably has its' own version, getting four digit dial to work between the systems (or worse yet, number portability) was a nightmare. And it wasn't due to a lack of knowledge on our part because we had a Cisco person on our team with a whole pocket full of Cisco CCxx certificates and he was talking to his counterpart all the time.
The problems usually revolved around terminology and options. The Cisco side (data folks) and the Avaya side (telecom folks) had different ideas about how phones, and phone calls, should work. Even a simple task of connecting a T1 between the systems took days. They were never easy.