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Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapters 101
Meridian Digital Telephone
IP Adapters
Overview
Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapters extend the life of, and preserve customer investment in,
Meridian Digital Telephones by allowing them to be converted from digital telephone devices to
IP Telephony devices that can be plugged directly into an IP-based local area network (LAN).
IP Adapters are an important proof-point in Nortel Networks philosophy of preserving customer investment
in existing product. In situations where existing Meridian digital phones must be preserved, Nortel Networks
is able to provide a solution, while still allowing customer migration to an IP-based architecture.
Customer Profile
Existing customers with large installations of
Meridian digital phones that need or want to move
to an IP LAN-based infrastructure, but do want to
leverage their existing Meridian telephone sets
Key Points
• IP Enables all the Meridian Digital sets providing
access to all system features & application
• Leverage the investment of a Meridian 1 or
Succession CSE communications system
• Feature Richness – all Meridian 1/Succession CSE
1000 applications are supported: Telephony
features, Symposium Call Centre, CallPilot Unified
Messaging, Meridian Mail, TAPI, etc
• System Administration - Policy capability under
Optivity Telephony Manager
Features and Benefits
The Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter
comes in an internal and external version.
The internal version is a small circuit-card that snaps
inside the footstand of a Meridian M2008D, M2616D,
M2008HFD, M2216D, M3310 or M3820 telephone,
allowing the phone to communicate with the host
communication system over an IP-based Ethernet
LAN. This greatly simplifies the wiring necessary to
support office phones and makes moves, adds and
changes far easier and quicker to implement.
The External IP Adapter is a small external device
that operates exactly like the internal version, and in
addition it supports the Meridian M3902, M3903,
M3904 and M3905 telephones. Since the external
adapter works with a wider selection of phones, it
does not fit into the footstand of any model of
telephone.
The Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapters
communicate to the Meridian 1 or Succession
CSE 1000 systems via a 16-port or 32-port Reach
Line Card (which can also simultaneously support
Remote Office 9150, 9110 and 9115 units).
The single-slot 16-port Reach Line card can support
up to 16 IP Adapters and the dual-slot 32-port
Reach Line card can support up to 20 simultaneous
IP Adapters.