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From: ritter@jarsun1.zone1.com (chuck ritter)
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Subject: Experiences With Spirit and Meridian Phone Systems
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Date: 8 Jun 90 18:20:48 GMT
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My company is replacing a fifteen year old six button Comkey system
because it is maxed out on lines. Our primary requirements are
reliability and longevity. We need eight lines and sixteen stations
now and don't anticipate explosive growth. Both the AT&T Spirit and
Northern Telecom Norstar Meridian systems meet our needs on paper. I
know that the Spirit isn't fully digital and the Meridian is; but they
are comparably priced - the Merlin II while digital is more
importantly substantially more money and has more expansion capacity
than I think we'll need in the next several years.

My company doesn't (yet) require the all the bells and whistles on
either system. But given that our last phone system was used for
fifteen years a secondary goal is a system that will allow us to take
advantage of new features as they become available locally. I don't
expect ISDN in our area for some time despite assurances otherwise.  I
would like to hear from people who have experience with either system
- what are your likes and dislikes in how the system operates? What is
your opinion of reliability and service responsiveness? How about
voice quality? Ease of use? etc, etc?


Chuck Ritter

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