[VoiceOps] question about campus installations

[Matthew S. Crocker]

I don't see why not. I never tried it. It worked great as MGCP on the M6. It is even officially supported as MGCP. 

Primus uses a bunch of MALCs in Canada on the M6. They used to anyway, no idea if they migrated to another platform or not. 

In our campus deployment we had a couple hundred Linksys SPA-942s running SIP & a couple hundred analog off the MALC. Worked pretty well with the M6. They are all on Broadworks now, just pushed new firmware and configs to the linksys and reboot. 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Shripal Daphtary" <shripald at gmail.com>
> To: "Matthew S. Crocker" <matthew at corp.crocker.com>
> Cc: VoiceOps at voiceops.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:33:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] question about campus installations

> Thanks Matt, do you know if this will work with sip on the m6?

> Sent from my mobile device.

> On Jan 25, 2012, at 3:52 PM, "Matthew S. Crocker" <
> matthew at corp.crocker.com > wrote:

> > I've used a Zhone MALC 319 with 48 port POTS cards running MGCP to
> > an
> > M6 for this exact scenario. It worked great for years, this summer
> > I
> > updated the firmware, switch to SIP and moved the customer onto our
> > Broadworks platform. Still working great. The MALC is a bit of a
> > nightmare to configure but it is great. The MALC I have running has
> > 4 - 48 port POTS cards with a bunch of empty slots. We installed it
> > in a weather proof cabinet including batteries & fusing. This came
> > from Zhone already assembled and wired. Everything is in the
> > basement of one of their campus buildings right next to where the
> > old PBX was.
> 

> > To cut over we wired up new Krone blocks for the MALC. Ran cross
> > connects from Phone -> MALC block and double punched MALC block ->
> > PBX block. Left the MALC disconnected on the 25 pair. When it was
> > time for the cut we just yanked off all the double punch xconnects
> > to disconnect the PBX and plugged in the MALC 25 pair. The total
> > outage was a couple minutes to cut 150+ extensions over.
> 

> > I also use Zhone MALC XP 150A with ADSL2+/POTS running MGCP to my
> > M6.
> > The ADSL2+ is great to push bandwidth out to dorm rooms if they
> > don't have Cat5 anywhere. You can get DSL modems that are embedded
> > in a single gang faceplate to mount in the dorm rooms. Students
> > would see a Cat5 Ethernet jack with 24/2 mb ADSL2+ on the upstream
> 

> > The MALC supports P-phones but no other digital phones.
> 

> > http://www.zhone.com/products/MALC/
> 
> > http://www.zhone.com/products/opx/ (cabinets)
> 

> > For digital phones you can use a Citel Portico TVA-D. This will
> > convert digital handsets to SIP. I'm not sure about MGCP. It works
> > with Broadworks, not sure about the M6
> 

> > http://www.citel.com/Products/Portico.asp
> 

> > ----- Original Message -----
> 

> > > From: "Shripal Daphtary" < shripald at gmail.com >
> > 
> 
> > > To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org
> > 
> 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:24:54 PM
> > 
> 
> > > Subject: [VoiceOps] question about campus installations
> > 
> 

> > > Hey all, i have a question that i could use some help on.
> > 
> 

> > > I have a customer that wants to replace a PBX that is shared
> > > between
> > > administration and residences in a campus environment with a VoIP
> > > solution. PBX currently has a digital phone in each residence
> > > connected via CAT3/rj11 back to a RJ21x the MDF. There are 238
> > > units. customer would like to provide POTs service to each
> > > residence
> > > with some class 5 features, VM, CLID, 3WAY, etc. There is not
> > > Cat5/rj45 connections in any of the units.
> > 
> 

> > > I was thinking of bringing in several Adit600 chassis, with
> > > 5x8port
> > > FXS cards in each, which would give me 40 FXS ports/chassis.
> > > meaning
> > > 6 chassis. i would likely use MGCP, b/c it works well with the
> > > Adit.
> > 
> 

> > > I can't seem to find a better/larger device that does more than
> > > 40
> > > FXS ports, besides a PBX. does anyone know of a product/channel
> > > bank
> > > that can handle more? i can do SIP or MGCP.
> > 
> 

> > > oh, i know that i can get a CAT 6500 and populate it with a
> > > couple
> > > CMMs and populate the CMMs with 24 port FXS cards (
> > > WS-SVC-CMM-24FXS), but the client can't maintain it.
> > 
> 

> > > I'm running an Broadsoft M6.
> > 
> 

> > > thanks!
> > 
> 

> > > Shri
> > 
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