How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
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Hi, I was wondering how to connect a Nortel M7100 to the BCM50.. I don’t know what connector you could use because the telephone doesn’t have an Ethernet port.
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
This is not the place to train somebody how to install a phone system.
If your stuck on something and need tips then fine.
All the manuals you need are on the BCM itself, approximately 50 of them.
You also have about 30 questions answer in the FAQ's section.
It's not a simple system you by at K-mart but rather a very sophisticated business phone system.
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
You will need to have keycodes installed on the system for "Digital Sets"
A 25pr fem Amp cable is terminated to a BIX 1A if in Canada, or if in USA the older 66 block or 110 system, or in Europe the Konnex systems (like BIX).
Connect a telephone jack and cable to the blocks list above, then cross-connect to the AMP cable on the BCM.
The correct terminals are laid out in the guide or FAQ's.
You will need to know the color codes of telephone wires.
You will need to have keycodes installed on the system for "Digital Sets"
The RJ45 Ethernet ports on the BCM or to connect to the techs laptop, the LAN and add 2 expansion modules.
IP phones would connect to the LAN, you need IP Client keycodes for that.
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
The adapter looks like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255410417802?epid=1519585...
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
I have a few, great for lab testing and temp system rentals such as election office's.
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
FYI -
If you want to program through the phone then you will need and M or T series model that has the 3 softkeys under the display.
x7100 and x7208 do not have them.
As for IP sets I cannot recall on the older series but on the 1100 series you will need an 1140e.
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
Would connecting one end of this to the BCM and one of the RJ-11 connectors work?
To be honest, I think the Breakout Adapters are a little pricey..
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
Many people here are seasoned veterans who installed many many telephone systems and can deal with things like amphenol cables, BIX blocks and patch panels with their eyes closed. Based on your questions, I suspect you don't belong to that category - so, getting the BCM50 breakout adapter would likely safe you some time.
And yes - the breakout adapter has RJ45 connectors, which are compatible with the RJ11 connectors on the phones cables - so you can just plug the RJ11 connector on the phone cable into the appropriate RH45 connector...
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
The only disadvantages of the 7100 is that
-only one button that can be programmed, which is a feature/code
-the display is 1 line instead of 2
-no handsfree
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RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
RE: How do you connect a digital phone to a BCM50?
See page 88 in the manual which should explain a lot.