Hi Dallas In general, I would not worry much about upselling TDA's to residential. The 824 does what most people want.
But if you have a major client, then the real value of the TDA/TDE is the flexibility and ability to grow. I have a few TDA's in large residential installs- the cell cordless is one great feature (also available on the TAW). One residence had about 50 extensions, and another has about 10 cordless units so the TDA was the way to go. Also they were not too picky about features. (Caller ID for example, all system do a poor job as far as residential customers are concerned.) I do not try to offer IP unless the client has a well established IT person, and have never done it for a residence. More likely you could get inexpensive VOIP lines from Broadvox or someone, and use them almost as tie lines. It would be cheaper than trying to configure IP gateways or IP extensions/cards. For $20 a month or so for unlimited calling, it would take a few years before it added up to the cost of IP cards or phones. If you put a voicemail on each system you can still let them call in and dial extensions etc. You can do clever things with the voicemail too. I have one client with a password menu to let them change day/night mode remotely. You could probably do other fun things too. Also you can network with other digital dealers to help cover the client's other homes. Charles Charles Patterson [email protected] Patterson Communications, Inc. Tarrytown, NY On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Dallas Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > We have been Panasonic dealers for many years I think the first installation > we did was in 1988. We installed quite a few of the KXTD 1232s. Mostly high > end residential. Lately with the additional of caller id and computer > programming for the analog 824 or 848 series, I have not seen allot of > reason to spend the effort and time to take the training needed for the > new KXTDA 600 etc.series. > Now I have a (deep pockets) client with several homes around the country. It > came to mind that with the IP phone capabilities of the new series we could > combine these houses phone systems? At least to some degree. Have extensions > from the main KSU in each of the houses. I wonder how difficult that would > be? Or is it asking for problems I do not need. > Any insight would be appreciated into the advantages or issues of the newest > series,especially regarding the IP extension features > Thanks > Dallas Dingle > _________________________________________________________________ > KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ > Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt > _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
