November 12, 2007
IP Telephone
Been very bust the past several weeks rearranging the second floor at the Birch C.O.. With a little help from my friends I ran 34 bundle-4 cat-5e cables, terminating on four jack modules. These cables were in addition to the 120 existing quads. Real Estate built the cubicles, I place my cables, people move. Real Estate built cubicles in the space they vacated, I place the rest of the cables, people move. They moved with analog telephones -- but I had previously removed the old Cat-3 telephone cables and ran the phone on the cat-5 cables via patch jacks from the telephone backboard. Moving an analog phone no longer means ripping and punching jumpers -- simply move a patch cord from one floor cable to another.
Then I cut everyone over to IP telephone, the Cisco 7941's shown at the left, with 7936's for the conference rooms. My part in installing the IP phone is to simply place it onto the existing Ethernet connection at the desk, in series between the jack and the computer. Let it power up (it pulls power off the Ethernet cable!), grab dial tone, type in the assigned telephone number twice and let it do it's thing.
Worked perfect except for one phone which goes loopy on powerup -- flashes lights, swawks loudly, repeat over and over until you pull the cord. Have to find out who talks to Cisco about a replacement. And with the last phone the nice lady from TABS said "I'm sorry, that number is not in the system, contact your system administrator." So I also get to find who the system administrator is and get them to release a few more numbers. Especially as the client expects to deploy another 15 phones.
Posted by Paladin at November 12, 2007 10:36 AM