What's new in 6.3

[acejavelin]

Anyone have any update on the 6900 series phones on the 5000? Does it look like SIP mode with Phone Manager is the ONLY way these phones will be implemented in the 5000 or will they be MiNet phones?

My sales guys are just looking for some info and Mitel isn't telling them anything other than "first quarter of 2018"... nothing about SIP mode or requiring the MiVoice Office Application Server.

[NTEDave]

Mitel Connect is showing info on 250 V6.3 and Phone Manager V5.1 as 'coming soon'

[BlackSunshine]

Having 6900 series phones in sip mode only and required to have phone manager isn’t much of a upgrade for me...might as well use 5300 series

[BlackSunshine]

https://www.gobsb.com/pdf/technology-expo/2017/mivoice-office-phone-manager-enterprise-capabilities-smb.pdf

[acejavelin]

So Mitel is requiring people purchase a server and services they don't want in order to get the latest phones... This is my problem with this, and in the general direction Mitel is headed recently, of making people get something they don't want. In the last say 2 years since they have been pushing Phone Manager we have installed maybe 40-50 MiVO systems and TWO had Phone Manager installations with them, and one of those was a customer who got MiCollab and hated it so much that we had to give them an alternative or pull the system. I think we added one to an existing 5000 because their old UCA server crashed and they wanted to upgrade to something newer.

[Tech Electronics]

acejavelin,

Since we have started selling the Mitel Phone Manager we have sold quite a few of them. Of course we didn't start until 4.3, but most customers like the added features they get with it.

I am not so sure about Mitel requiring it to be sold with the 6900 sets to get all of the features, as not all of our customers bought Phone Manager, but I think it is their way of adding features without making too many changes to how the MiVO-250 functions as a standalone system; much like Intelligent Router.

I do like the fact that they will be adding some resiliency functionality in the future for the 6900 series phones which isn't even a possibility with any of the current offers. Maybe they will start making the MiVO-250 more of a SIP server than the MiVB or MiVB-X servers; who knows.

Thanks,

TE

[acejavelin]

So out of curiosity to anyone in the beta program for the 6900 series phones (assuming your not under a NDA), how is the functionality of the sets on the 5000 compared to the 5330/5340 series phones? We know that SIP phones on the 5000 are a bit limited, are there many functional limitations of the 6900 series on the 5000?

[Tech Electronics]

acejavelin,

I am not in the beta program, thank the phone gods, but from what I have been reading it looks as though they are expanding the SIP capabilities of the MiVO-250 with the Phone Manager MCS which is why it is a requirement I believe to get all of the functionality of the new SIP 6900 series phones.

Thanks,

TE

[NTEDave]

Hello

Went to a Road Show for Mitel MiVoice Office Application Suite 5.1 roadshow which touched on 6900 series support in MiVo Office 6.3.

Basically the 6900 series connects to the 250 as a SIP Endpoint with a CAT F license and will work as a 'dumb' phone.

If used in conjunction with a MiVoice Office App Suite server it basically runs a cut down Mitel Phone Manager on the screen of the 6900 phone if you have an Outlook or above user license. This allows you presence, directory access etc.

5.1 is due the end of February.

[jmarcwsp1]

In my opinion the last feature-rich software release was v5.1 in 2011.  Since then there has been minimal development on the 5000/250.

[Tech Electronics]

jmarcwsp1,

I don't necessarily agree with your statement there, but I am pretty sure the majority of the R&D is going to the MiVoice Business and not the MiVoice Office. With that being said there would be a noticeable difference in the amount of updates and changes to the respective product lines. We also have to keep in mind the target audience that Mitel believes that each system is designed for.

What features do you think would need to be added to the MiVO-250 to make a "feature-rich" software release for its target audience?

Thanks,

TE

[Magpye]

Hey Guys,

I haven't seen anything on the site yet, but 6.3 was released yesterday.

I've been playing with it and Application Suite on my lab system today.

[jmarcwsp1]

Any updates on the release?

[Magpye]

Any updates on the release?

It was released on the 22nd, I have it running on 2 systems so far.

The 6900 series integration with Application Server (Phone Manager) works really well.

[jmarcwsp1]

Thanks Magpie!