Years ago I did something similar (college instead of hospital) with 200+
analog lines using a Zhone MALC.
Originally I MGCPed them back to a Vocaldata/Tekelec T6000/Genband M6 and then
converted them to SIP on a Broadworks switch.
The Zhone MALC was a bit of a pain to configure but became cookie-cutter once
we got it working.
We installed it in a Zhone supplied outdoor cabinet in their very wet basement
and included DC & batteries in a self contained system.
For cut over we did the following:
Existing Centrex lines from Verizon were terminated on a 'Centrex 66 block'
Existing College lines to the campus phones were terminated on a 'College 66
block'
Existing cross connects from Centrex block to College Block
We established new 'Crocker 66 blocks' with 25 pair Amphenols to the Zhone
(disconnected)
We moved the cross connect from the centrex block and connected to the Crocker
block. One at a time, mapping numbers to Zhone config
We created a temporary cross connect from Crocker block to Centrex Block
On the day of the cut over we pulled all of the temporary cross connects to
disconnect Verizon from the campus and plugged the Amphenols into the Zhone.
200+ phones cut over in under 10 minutes.
I think the MALC is EoL'd but the Zhone MXK is basically the same thing.
You can also do this with Adtran TA5000s. or you can stack a bunch of Adtran
TA924s
On 3/21/19, 11:55 AM, "VoiceOps on behalf of Ryan Delgrosso"
<voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org on behalf of ryandelgro...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have found myself with a number of hospital opportunities and
servicing the staff with IP phones is a no-brainer, however there is the
need for multi-hundred room connectivity for patient room phones and the
staff mandate is to keep it analog because "ip phones there will grow
legs".
I am looking for 24+ port density with amphenol connectors, and ideally
some kind of rudimentary internal routing so i dont need to register all
24 discreet ports and can route by some header (to or uri) within a
single registration.
Right now im looking at AudioCodes and the Sangoma Vega series. Obihai
would be my natural choice here but don't have anything that fits my
density requirements.
Any opinions on these or others I should consider. Anyone deploy these
and can speak to the experience?
Thanks in advance
-Ryan
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