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| Originally Posted by sillejo Charles P ? Is that for Peckham? Did you work out of Minneapolis for a while?
Charles, I'd be interested to hear more. Shortel is obviously worrying to the local Cisco office, they talk about how to beat them a lot. I watched a presentation on it, but it sounded like you needed to buy Shortel infrastrucure to plug the phones into which sat between the phones and the data infrastructure. Thus my notes. If there is a way to use existing infrastrucutre, I'd like to know. Thanks |
Nope, not Charles Peckham, and I live in Florida
Shoretel is so simple, it's not even funny. You need a server for VM (The only windows component). You need a T1 interface box (Shoregear T1), a Control box (like a Shoregear 60/12) that plugs into the network, and preferably a PoE switch.
I think the common misconception is that you need to plug the phones into the Shoregear 60/12 (that's what I thought before I did my first install), but in reality, the shoregear 60/12 has a single ethernet port that gets plugged into the lan. Thats it.
I have secretaries doing Add/Moves/Changes. The company I work for is a Cisco PLatinum partner, and we used to offer Call MAnager Express (Although I never worked with it) and we dropped it because it was too much hassle, especially when compared to a Shoretel install.
Shoretel is so simple, they have a 'Demo in a box' that most dealers own. You can roll it into the conference room, fire it up, and make internal calls during your demo.
You may want to investigate it further