Re: Off-premise PBX extension via IP?

I agree here. If you are looking to replace your PBX and want to bring
remote stations into the mix then Asterisk is the way to go.


"RonB" <ronb02nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ray Cassick \(Home\)" <raycassNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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No, I understood, but fired off a very quick solution.

If you are looking for a way to get a digital type station set off
your PBX to your home I think you will find that unless you run a very
long wire :) you will be out of luck. Unless that is you locate a PBX
vendor that offers IP phone integration with all the bells and
whistles you are asking for.

The problem comes down really to the fact that the station sets that
have all the fancy features and buttons rely on a proprietary protocol
to drive them and that is not something that is easily encapsulated
over IP. The company that I work for Intel's communications division
soon to belong to Eicon looked into a VoIP gateway that did exactly
this IP encapsulation of digital station set protocols) but has not
yet released anything. Keep in mind that since each vendors phones are
different (that's why you cant take a Nortel phone set and plug it
into an Avaya PBX) these devices would be very PBX specific.

I think Asterisk would be the only (relatively) inexpensive solution. I
don't know how well it works, but what attracts me to Asterisk is that
it is a true VoIP system that also supports traditional analog lines and
T1s. There are companies who will configure Asterisk to work out of the
box for you. (This is not an endorsement. I don't know enough about
Asterisk to know how well it works. I mostly work on Nortel switches.)

Where I'm working now we mostly sell the Panasonic TDA line (and, as of
yet, I know very little about these). I do know the TDA50 won't do what
Kyle wants, but I think the TDA100 and TDA200 might. The problem is they
are much bigger systems and more expensive than what is needed for a
four phone office.

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RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"


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