Talk:Nortel Meridian

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I think its important to have the Meridan as a Wikipedia article. There needs to be more traditional telephony articles which it lacks of in more for the VoIP stuff. If the Meridan article gets expanded, then I would figure that other systems will get covered on Wikipedia like the Definity, the NEAX, Norstar (the small end Nortel system that was formerly the Meridian) or other major systems. I just added more info to the article, so hopefully someone can expand it some more! Steven312 19:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verification?

Why is there some need for verification that the Meridian system actually does exist when it actually does exist? Just go to the Kmart nearby my neighborhood and they have a Meridian system. The verification tag makes the article look like it is talking about something that doesn't exist when there is actually such thing as the Meridian system. KansasCity 21:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

For verification that the product exists, it's simple enough to link to the vendor's product page: http://products.nortel.com/go/product_content.jsp?segId=0&catId=null&parId=0&prod_id=29141&locale=en-US

I think the verificaiton tag has more to do with citing sources for statement such as

• "it was first introduced in 1976" and
• "one of the industry's first fully digital PBXs"

For that, I suggest the following reference: http://products.nortel.com/go/product_assoc.jsp?segId=0&parId=0&catId=null&rend_id=5181&contOid=100177491&prod_id=27582&locale=en-US

Also, according to the vendor, the product scale is "from 60 to 80,000 lines" I will update that shortly.

--TravisM 18:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Let me put on the record, I did add the 1976 and one of the first digital PBX reference. I have a great memory and I had seen it on the Nortel website a few years ago. The information is true. Also the Newton's Telecom Dictionary (also avaliable at your local Borders) also had made smiliar references. And one thing, people whom just throw randon "cite your sources" means they don't a damn thing about PBXes or telecom systems, therefore they think they know what they are talking about, but that isn't true. I mean the "importance" thing also gives away that they don't know what they are talking about. I know the Meridian I know PBXes I know telecom systems, so I know what I am talking about. I would check the Internet Archive to find it on their history page to see if you want to back up my word. Steven312 23:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Arragh. The references tags are broken, and I can't figure out why. --TravisM 18:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

To establish the notability of the Meridian, is it worth including comment that the Meridian 1 is the only large-scale non-IP PBX offered by BT[1] Davidprior 00:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)