We are in the process of moving our office, and we're exploring the possibility of purchasing a new 5000 to set up in the new location beforehand, and then moving over the older Mitel 5000 when the move is complete. My understanding is that the Mitel 5000 is good for about 200 users, so the second system could come in handy to possibly split the load when we start to pass this number of employees.
The vendor we deal with didn't think two Mitel 5000s in the same location would work well. Perhaps he figured we'd have one PRI that we'd somehow split, which I can understand being complicated, but, assuming we had separate connections for both, and perhaps got a new set of DIDs for one of them, is this option feasible? Are there other benefits to this setup? It was also conveyed that the 5000 doesn't have an real business continuity/DR benefits, but maybe this is incorrect?
Thanks.