| WIth call pilot you can purchase the VPIM feature. VPIM=Voice Profile for Internet Messaging. It will allow networking over TCP?IP. My experience with AMIS between a Nortel and Octel or Avaya product has not been too spectacular. Octel for instance does not support VPIM. If you have the dollars to spend I would look at two things 1.) add VPIM to the Call Pilot, 2.) Purchase an Avaya Interchange Server. The Interchange will address your needs. The Interchange has a great feature called enterprise lists, think of huge distribution lists. The nice thing is you don't have to add every mailbox, just a "machine name", which is actually a name given to an end point voice messaging system. The Interchange is not cheap, but there is not anything else out there that compares. Avaya has also releases a skinnyed down version that goes by the S3210 nomenclature. It will do protocol conversions between systems,but will not support enterprise lists. It may meet your needs, I would suggest contacting your Avaya rep. Also, with the Interchange or S3210 your voice messaging network becomes a hub & spoke as opposed to a meshed network. This is a big benefit if you have alot of messaging systems. |