There is a product from Citel (the TVA) that we're currently using with Toshiba phones. I know they also support Avaya, Nortel, and Panasonic, but am not sure if they do any other brands. They more or less convert your old digital phones to SIP.
They have have full compatibility information on their website... -Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Novack" <jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:48:57 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Alcatel digital phone's Sander Naudts wrote: Asterisk and Alcatel digital phone's Hi, I'm sorry if this is already asked somewhere on the list but I couldn't find it. We have an old PBX system controlled by our Telecom provider. There are analog phones but also digital alcatel phone's connected to it. These are not ip based but legacy digital phone's. Is there a way how we can connect them to our own Asterisk PBX? The old PBX is going to be removed, so it has to be a solution: Digital alacatel phone -> directly connected to Asterisk. Short answer NO! What you are calling "legacy digital phones" are not universal, and for many years have been integrated with the host system. This is generally true for business systems from 2 lines and six stations to large systems with hundreds of phones. Is there some hardware gateway or something we can use? The only "gateway"will be your existing switch or another of the same generation. When the switch is removed, why would the phones not be? the analog phones, if they are not special, but POTS phones that could be used anywhere on a loop start line in a business or home could be reused, but you may find that you will not want to. We looked at the Grandstream GXW4024 gateway for our analog phones but I'm not sure the digital one's can connect to that one as well. No they cannot. Better plan on replacing all the Alcatel phones with IP ones. John Novack Kind regards, Sander Naudts -- Dog is my Co-pilot -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
