Refurbished Phone Exchange Blog — Phones

  To reset your 3Com 3102 phone, you’ll need to boot the phone up. After the phone boots with the software version, press the programming button in the top right corner of the phone (This is the button with a white circle). You’ll want to scroll down to option 6 and select advanced settings. If prompted for a password, the default password for the 3102 IP phone is 1234#. Once in the phone’s advanced settings, scroll down to option 5, hardware reset. Select this to factory reset the phone’s hardware settings. Once the phone has been rebooted, log into the...

  The Comdial DX-80 and DX-120 are popular digital phone systems released by Comdial Vertical. The Comdial DX-80 is the older phone system designed to be a small business phone system that provided key features at a reasonable price. The Comdial DX-120 (Edge 120) is the newer digital phone system designed around the Comdial Edge 120 (7261-00) phone. Comdial phone system size and user support... The Comdial Edge 120 (DX-120) phone system is the larger of the two systems. While both systems ship as relatively small systems suitable for office user, the DX-120 can support more users. The DX-120 can...

Key Functionality, also known as Line Functionality, is a type of phone system setup. Key System Units, abbreviated to KSUs, were digital phone systems in the 80’s to early 2000’s that were designed around having phones ring based on what ‘line’ rang. Each analog or ISDN trunk that came into the system was assigned a line key. This line key was then shared out in a shared line account (SLA) that would ring all the phones in the group when the analog trunk rang. If you ever said “You have a call on line 3,” at your job, chances are...

The Aastra 675xi is no more... Mitel-Aastra has officially discontinued the 675xi series of IP phones. These phones were SIP based IP phones compatible with Asterisk based phone systems and AastraLink phone systems. The Aastra 57i and other phones in the series became synonymous with high quality programmable phones for SIP based phone systems. On October 7, 2014 the 675xi series was officially discontinued.   The Replacement... The replacement series of phones will be the Aastra 686xi phones. The two phones being originally released in the series are the 6865i and the 6867i IP phones. These phones will maintain the...

  Those deploying an ESI based IP phone system will need to decide on an IP phone to use. Two of the more commonly used IP phones are the ESI 48 Key IPFP and the ESI 48 Key IPFP2 phones. If these phones sound incredibly similar to you, it’s because they are. There are two differences any telecom engineer should be aware of before deploying the phones.   Do You Need Power Over Ethernet? The ESI IPFP 48 key does not come with the ability to accept Power Over Ethernet. If you are deploying a system that has a PoE...