On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:21, Ben Scott wrote:
>> What do you have feeding the Nortel box now from the Telco?
>
> I don't see how that matters. What I'm concerned about are the
> telephones and wiring on the private side of our premises telephone
> system. Connecting to the PSTN is a solved proble
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:34:58 -0400
> From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Anyone know of any kind of enhanced telephone set that can be
> connected to an Asterisk-based system using plain old telephone phone
> wiring?
You might also look into X.25. It's a packet networking technology
de
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Connecting plain old telephones to analog adapters isn't an
> acceptable solution. All the desk sets on old wiring would either (1)
> loose features beyond making telephone calls, or (2) require hook
> flash and dialing
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You wouldn't necessarily lose these functions. Since they are all
> functions of the current PBX, they would continue to work.
I'm thinking of inside calls between Norstar extensions and Asterisk
VoIP extensions. (The wh
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> That all depends on what you want to do... You can leave all of your
>> phones connected to the Merridian/Norstar/whatever, then connect that
>> PBX t
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That all depends on what you want to do... You can leave all of your
> phones connected to the Merridian/Norstar/whatever, then connect that
> PBX to an asterisk box for external and internal connectivity.
Hmmm. I hadn'
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Gerry Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question is: What is your purpose for swiching to Asterisk (IP-based
> telephony)?
Multiple factors:
1. Wiring costs. We've got a new building coming up, and we will save
several thousand dollars by only wiring for data
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Enhanced telephone set = Something more than a plain old telephone
>>> set.
>>
>> You can use pretty much any kind of phone that you want ...
>
> I
>
> No, but many of them are 2-wire digital (circuit switched), with
> proprietary encoding and signaling. So all our Norstar phones work
> just fine on 50 year old premises telephone wiring.
>
> (Reason I'm asking is that we're expanding into new space that
> *will* have LAN jacks everywhere, s
My question is: What is your purpose for swiching to Asterisk (IP-based
telephony)? Is it because you want high-performance
end points (as you describe)? If so, you are only going to get those from
either pure-IP sets, or a proprietary system such as the Norstar or other
Digital set on standard
This seems to be worth a peek:
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/wea/wea154.html
System provides Ethernet over old copper cables
Westermo Data Communications has released an Ethernet line extender that is
capable of establishing a reliable, high-speed remote connection between
Ethernet net
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Enhanced telephone set = Something more than a plain old telephone
>> set.
>
> You can use pretty much any kind of phone that you want ...
I assume by "any kind of phone", you mean "any kind of
SIP-capable-VoIP or analo
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone know of any kind of enhanced telephone set that can be
> connected to an Asterisk-based system using plain old telephone phone
> wiring?
>
> Enhanced telephone set = Something more than a plain old telephone
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you have feeding the Nortel box now from the Telco?
I don't see how that matters. What I'm concerned about are the
telephones and wiring on the private side of our premises telephone
system. Connecting to the
On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:34, Ben Scott wrote:
> I'm looking at Nortel's BCM (basically a hybrid Norstar/VoIP box),
> but it's expensive, doesn't do SIP, and Nortel is not overly customer
> friendly. I'd love to use something like Asterisk instead.
What do you have feeding the Nortel box now from
Hi all,
Anyone know of any kind of enhanced telephone set that can be
connected to an Asterisk-based system using plain old telephone phone
wiring?
Enhanced telephone set = Something more than a plain old telephone
set. Programmable buttons for hold, line selection, special features,
etc. Opt
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