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Cat5, I just noticed your profile isn't complete.
e mail me, I'll send you what I have.
The TDs are going away and the TA 624 is being replaced by a new TA 824.
MrG

Thanks MrG. I will email you shortly.

I haven't really pushed the 624 in the past. (I'm a TD fan) but just from the description it sounds like a move in the right direction. The biggest roadblock I have encountered seems to be hitting the CO limits of these systems. 2 more CO's just might do the trick for an affordable buy-in with good capacity.



[This message has been edited by cat5installer (edited July 12, 2005).]

TDA's are great. Panasonic finally has it together for certification to stop the Internet bootleggers and Joe Blow working out of his house with no overhead, no insurance and no support back-up and no trainer (i.e. trunkers). I hate going out to bid a system with my time and fuel and lose to someone selling the product at almost my cost. The trunkers in our area are just happy to sell systems at cost and make their money on the install. I won't even price a system over the phone anymore. Panasonic finally heard us on this issue. And, the wireless cells are great.

Cat 5, you've got mail

Thanks for that MrG!

Hello all, I have a different senario. I worked for 40 years at a local CLEC and the last 20 on A Lucent 5ESS and I am certified on it. This is way bigger than a panasonic PBX, but it and the PBX does the same thing basically. The thing is, not everyone is a dummy on entry to the PBX world. How about a pre test to see what you know and if you score well, you are certified. Those that don't have to go to training. The biggest problem in the PBX world is the IT guys who butcher things big time or make a point to stop duplicate labor. Most IT guys are too lazy to run wires. They want to be the programmer. The biggest threat to the traditional PBX is VOIP. Small systems that use the internet to a customers computer on one cable using a router. This is our threat. Even the CLEC's are providing VOIP dialtone and IT people are just pushing it out to employees via a small router switch. As long as there is a cross in the fields, we will lose. The other is the electricians running telco and data wires. We lose the revenue of cable running, but we can't do the work of an electric ian. They do the wiring for the quick buck. Brad

"How about a pre test to see what you know and if you score well, you are certified."
You'll need a pre-test glossary of terms! I'm here to tell you that different manufacturers have different names for the same function. AND, sometimes the word(s) are in both glossaries and mean totally unrelated things! John C.