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TelecomDude · 10-23-2003, 08:58 AM

Ok here is a blanket question.
I am an Avaya PBX Dude, I know nothing about Nortel and yet I have been given the great job of helping our sister city move off their Nortel onto an Avaya Definity 9. Other than the basic conversion of a call flow chart to Avaya coding is there a way you can scrape the Nortel and then import the set up onto a PC to then convert to Avaya or am I dreaming in technicolor here? Any suggestions on how I might do this conversion painlessly?

sjforcum · 10-23-2003, 09:02 AM

A while back I had heard someone say Avaya would be willing to sell the software program their programmers use (it's a beefed up version of ASA)...while the cost seemed extreemely prohibitive for normal maintenance / day to day stuff, it may be suitable for what you're doing...although I think you're still going to have to re-key everything into the Avaya since I doubt either company is using any type of standard ODBC database which would allow it's settings to be ported from one switch to the other....

**rixride** · 10-23-2003, 09:03 AM

You can Print all the phones to paper.

:wink: . What kind of Nortel System? and what software do they have to work with? I.e. MAT - Meridian Administration Tools or OTM - Optivity Telephony Manager or TTY- The Old Ugly looking 1950's style monitor in the PBX Room?

TelecomDude · 10-24-2003, 08:36 AM

Thanks Guys for the Help, it appears I will be doing it the old fashion way. Fortunately once I learn the Nortel call flow diagram, I can code it on my Avaya and then scrape it and import it onto the new one.
Thanks again.

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