Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, ...
(previously Northern Telecom) manufactured telephones for business users from the 1980s to 2001, beginning with the Meridian series.
Current phones
Nortel no longer exists. There are no phones being manufactured for, or by, Nortel. Since 2001, phones with the Nortel brand are made by
Aastra Technologies Limited of
Concord, Ontario
Concord is a suburban industrial district in the City of Vaughan in York Region, located north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to the 2001 Census, Concord has 8,255 residents.
It is accessed by two provincial highways: Highway 407 an ...
.
Previous phones
Nortel's previous phones include:
* Nortel DisplayPhone - early concept business phone
* Nortel SL-1 Digital Office Phone - early concept business phone
* Nortel Venture
* Nortel Vista 100
* Nortel Meridian 9009
* Nortel Vista 350
* Nortel Vista 390
* Nortel Meridian M2616
* Nortel Meridian 9216
* Nortel Meridian 9316
* Nortel Meridian 8417
* Nortel Meridian Aastra 9417 CW
* Nortel Meridian 9516
* rotary outdoor telephone - for
call boxes
* Nortel Meridian M3000 Touchphone - world's first production
touchphone - a telephone with all indicators and functions managed by a
touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...
.
Switching to VoIP
Due to proprietary digital signalling,
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...
ATA cannot be used for VoIP Enable this Phone.
Portico TVA
A telephone VoIP adapter (TVA), also called digital telephone adapter, is a device that allows digital PBX (Private branch exchange) telephone handsets to be connected to a VoIP network, using, for example, Session Initiation Protocol.
An ATA (ana ...
allows
these phones to seamlessly integrate with softswitches .
See also
*
Nortel payphones
*
Northern Telecom home phones
*
Portico TVA
A telephone VoIP adapter (TVA), also called digital telephone adapter, is a device that allows digital PBX (Private branch exchange) telephone handsets to be connected to a VoIP network, using, for example, Session Initiation Protocol.
An ATA (ana ...
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Nortel telephones