Alcatel Unleashed

The 5200BCN are the best PBXs i ever used and installed in my carriere. They are robust, well designed and with no moving parts. Much better then the 4300 and 4400 families. I still have may PBXs still working in Tunisian Hôtels.!!

Here it is some Alcatel 5200 BCN parts and an image of one that works today, in Romania after 30 or so years of operation.

https://www.altel.ro/en/alcatel-5200BCN-components.html

In the first images from "Old School" there are cabinets full of Alcatel 4300 cards then taken over by Alcatel 4400 release 1.5.3 (currently OXE Purple) via the SU or SUVG card.

I posted pictures of the Alcatel 5200 BCN VDU operator console and the digital phone, called Alcatel Delta, made somewhere in Denmark by the Kirk company.

Very old and no hd. All configuration is in memory.
If power supply is off and the batteries of the memory card is not ok, all configuration is lost and then you must reconfigure the system by hand.
I remember that I have done a software that retrieves all the configuration using the seriel port, properly convert it, and stores it in any external media. Then in the case of configuration loss, it was possible to upload the configuration using the tool.