Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

[Bill McGonigle]

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 problem.
>   But anyway, to answer your question: POTS.  Analog copper dialtones.
>  They go into LS/DS (Loop Start/Disconnect Supervision) cards on the
> Norstar MICS.

It matters because your only interface available to the Norstar  
system is evidently POTS.  So you make Asterisk pretend to be the  
POTS and you've connected Asterisk to the Nortel.  Something like this:

   http://grandstream.com/gxw400x.html

Will give you 8 FXS ports to plug your POTS lines into.

You may need to conjure a dial-plan wizard to get the routing right.

-Bill

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