Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@mojave.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wanted: Home Phone System Message-ID: <14893@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 18:19:35 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 840, Message 1 of 12 "Adam J. Ashby" writes: > I don't think that Mitel has anything small enough, but they did have > a subsidiary (?) company that made small PBXs/Key systems, called > Trillium, based in Kanata, Ont. I can't remember what the particular > systems were called (I left Mitel in '81 and a lot of brain cells have > died since then!), and as far as I can remember, I only ever saw a > couple of the systems and never worked with them. If you had worked with them, I doubt that you would recommend them. An associate replaced his with a Panasonic a couple of years ago and I have never seen a more happy camper. The Trillium is a somewhat featureless electronic key system that has some of the more annoying faults commonly found in these early offerings. There is no support of single line phones. That means no sanitary connection of modems or answering machines. The phones themselves are physically unwieldy, and the DTMF tones lag somewhat behind the actuation of the keypad buttons. This can drive a "fast dialer" such as myself absolutely bonkers. Also, the tones are those short, "specification correct", but voicemail-useless variety that are found on the Strada and others. I am told by a friend who is a distributor that the Panasonic KX-T switches and phones are now readily available. Only certain items, such as the doorphone, remain difficult to get. John Higdon (hiding out in the desert)