Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Ben, out of curiosity, what phones do you have on the desks now?
> Meridian sets?

  Pretty much.  The Norstar supports a subset of the line of Meridian
proprietary digital sets.  We've got at least one of most of them.
(Models M7100, M7208, M7310, M7324, T7100, T7208, and T7316, for those
of you keeping score at home.)

>  If your just looking to add VoIP, why not just trunk to the existing
> system with an Asterisk box using a T1 crossover?

  Considered it, but I think it's too much of a kludge.  Configuration
would be very hairy.  Worse, we'd loose a number of "integrated
system" features.  (You can check earlier in the thread for some
examples.)

  Ken L posted a link which led me to a product which claims to bridge
Norstar/Merridian sets to SIP VOIP Ethernet, which is pretty much
ideal for our purposes.  So I'm investigating that option.

> Sorry for the late reply to the thread, been so busy it isn't funny at work.

  I know the feeling.  Adding this third building at work is
proving... interesting.  :-)

-- Ben