Got to love the “business made simple” marketing strategy of Nortel, but what lurks behind that marketing strategy? Decades of excellent architecture with one of the most consistant (some might say archaic) command line interfaces known to man.
With the recent (as in last few years) renaming of the traditional “Meridian-1 Option” line of enterprise phone systems to Communication Server 1000, there comes a few new, confusing names to the Nortel playground. Half group, Single group, Multi group, Cabinet, Chassis.
Making sense of this is what I do, so I whipped up this handy cheat sheet on all of the versions I know of or could find in the documentation, and a quick tutorial on how to identify system hardware with a few quick commands in the CLI.
Voila! My Nortel CS1000 Hardware Version bulletin.
Meridian-1 / CS1000 Hardware Version Lookup Table [DRN08061701] (33.7 KiB, 586 hits)
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