Types of Line Service for Phone Systems

A Brief Explanation of the Different Types of “Lines” a Telephone System can Utilize With over 35 years in the telecom industry from our foundation here in Tampa, Fl. CSM has seen the titanic changes in the way that voice is delivered to a business. There was a time when an actual human operated a…

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Norstar, Nortel, Meridian, What’s the Difference and can you Service it?

CSM offers Nortel Service in Tampa, Austin, Sarasota and San Marcos

If you have a Nortel Networks phone system, you may not even know it! A formerly Canadian based company, Nortel may have gone out of business in 2008, but in the decades it manufactures phone systems, Nortel used several brand names. Originally the products were Norstar and Meridian. Generally speaking, Meridian systems were larger than…

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When Nortel Phone Systems can’t be Serviced

A world where Nortel is no longer around? If this were 1995, most businesses and experts would have had a hearty laugh and dismissed the thought completely out of hand. But, this is not 1995, it is 2015, and the unthinkable happened. During a heated bidding process in 2008, Siemens Enterprise Communications and Avaya went…

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