Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Well, I am not sure what is needed to interface between the two. I hoped > there was something you could use and from the sounds of it, its not worth > it. I guess the only thing I would need is a small switch in each office > then as we only have one run of cat-5e to each office.
The company I think John was referring to is Citel, and they do make gateways that translate between legacy digital PBXs and SIP. But I would tend to agree that the cost isn't worth it, nor does it provide a permanent solution. How big is this installation? Depending on the number of seats, you could probably get additional, upgraded cabling done to each office and buy handsets, and still make off with less cost than you would trying to adapt the Meridian--quite imperfectly, at that. > Do they make phones with a gig switch in them? I am told there are phones > with 100meg switches in them? Not as far as I know, since a desktop application PC is the highest-bandwidth device manufacturers assume anyone would want to uplink through a phone. Although, oddly enough, a lot of them can do VLAN trunking, etc. -- Alex -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users