Need more VM Ports on Meridian Rel 12 or 13

[lsmyn]

Currently have a 4 port system in Option 11. Ive been told I can not add more VM ports, that Nortel wants me to go to CallPilot. Can I not put in an 8 port VM card to replace the 4 port card or is there an issue there.

Any ideas?

 

[mluckie1]

Unfortunately you would need keycodes to unlock the additional ports.

 

[johnpoole]

right, even with a vp8 card, the keycodes neew to come from nortel

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[lsmyn]

So Nortel would not sell us the keycodes to add ports, due to non-support of expanding a meridian?

Is it true that if we purchased a used Option 11 that already had an 8 port system, we could implement that one ?

That seems to be a whole lot less $ than converting to CallPilot, since Meridian is an ideal solution for our needs. We have no need for those features.

Any other ideas on how to expand the access to the voicemail, is there another addon system that would work with Option 11 that is similar to meridian but does not cost like CallPilot?

 

[SL1User]

You can'T use a other system with 8 ports on your system, because the keycode of MM in O11 is fixed to the AUX ID of the System.

The only thing you could do is exchange the whole system with the one you purchased (if the ISM's of the O11 are enough).

 

[yyrkroon]

check this out:

Question: Is there a package to go from Meridian Mail to CallPilot 4.0?
Answer: Yes. There is a special Meridian Mail Investment Protection offer available, but will expire end of 2005. See bulletins: SM-2002-1578-NA and SM-2004-0379-rev1.

check with your vendor, its damn near free.

 

[hawks]

If you are at RLS 12 then no but I thought you could get keycodes for RLS 13 until the end of 2005. Check with your vendor.

 

[mluckie1]

The upgrade perk isn't free but you get Callpilot for 1/2 price.

 

[johnpoole]

read that post real close, we just used that discount and went from a 150 k to just under 90 on a major voice mail. bad news is putting money in a mermail, another year down the road and keycodes will be no longer issued and the discount will be gone.. if you place the order now the actual in service can still be 06.. with the migration tape, you only need to rebuild the menus,ann etc. and the voice recordings will migrate over along with saved msgs, passwords mailboxes etc

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc