I have seriously considered trying to track down the specifics of the Lucent ETR signalling, because I have a Partner key system I would like to use still. Yes, I absolutely could just dump Zap lines into the main system card, but then I lose the ability to signal into Asterisk (i.e. call transfers between the key phones and a remote VoIP user, etc). In short, it's really not meant to work that way and the solution comes up short on many levels. Getting * to speak ETR, however, is a completely different ballgame (although figuring out a powering scheme for the phones introduces another challenge).
Greg
Leo Ann Boon wrote:
Gregory Junker wrote:
Bayonne is supposed to act as a key system, at least that's what was described on the web page. IMHO, it's probably a lot cheaper to re-use the old key system in tandem with Asterisk. A while ago, there was a discussion on this list about the feasilbility of re-using Toshiba key phone handsets with Asterisk. As it is, Toshiba has a Dialogic-style PCI card to support 16 digital handsets. Unfortunately, the cost of the card is >US$2500 - much more than buying a brand new key phone.Is there an open source key system, comparable to *?
If there isn't , I'd be happy to work on developing one. It is clear that the need still exists for such a user interface paradigm.
It would be pretty cool, if someone can reverse engineer the protocol(s) used by popular key phone systems. I think it's possible to use HFC in NT mode to drive those handsets. IIRC, most digital phones work along the lines of ISDN phones.
Cheers.
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