[cisco-voip] Conversion from Centrex to VoIP

[Scott Voll]

We moved slowly, from a PBX to CM also.  but what I did is setup small
imports (say 50 phones)  Then with the techs where ready to go install
phones I imported 50 phones.... they installed.  Soon as they were ready to
do more i would import another 50.  you could do smaller amounts if that
helped.  But it worked really well for us as it only took about an hour for
our techs to get the phones installed so at most people were only down that
long.

YMMV.

Scott

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Lisa Notarianni
<notariannil1 at scranton.edu>wrote:

>  I asked this question before but did not get a response from anyone.  I
> am going to reword it...
>
> We are in the process of switching from Centrex to VoIP.  As we move along
> and convert each department, we find timing difficult because as soon as the
> phones are entered in Call Manager, those already on VoIP calling the lines
> on that phone get an error since the phone is not yet plugged in.
>
> In addition to having convert the lines from Centrex to our DID block (I
> can work around that), we find it difficult to come up with a solution with
> being able to work ahead of schedule by adding the phones into Call Manager
> without having calling issues from VoIP phones.
>
> Anyone know of a creative way to add these phones to Call Manager but
> isolate them from other VoIP phones until we are ready to deploy them to
> desks?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
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