Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

[Thomas Charron]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

  At least to the proprietary phones, yea.

>  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.

  I looked for a link, but didn't see it in the emails from Ken L.
Citel box I assume?

>> 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.  :-)

 That's another curiosity question.  How many stations we talking?

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-- Thomas