Second Site - TIE line or seperate PBX??

[tconn]

I'm lighting a new office in a couple weeks and am trying to find the cheapest and/or best solution to tieing the two sites together. I've only got one slot left on my Definity G3 shelf, but have a whole nother chassis not yet plugged in if needed.

When I called the usual local Definity vendor, they weren't quite sure what I was asking for when I said I need a quote on getting the equipment programming to light up a TIE line.

Basically I want this to look like one big PBX, rather than two PBX's. I need to be able to use things like group-page and hit phones at both sites. I thought this was as simple as getting a T1 card in each chassis and setting some options that make it a TIE line. I've got the T1 ordered already, but what else am I going to need ?

The local vendor ended up wanting to sell me VoIP phone sets, which is something we have wanted anyway, but would rather have the regular 6400 phones for this particular office.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tim

 

[mike144]

think your only choice would be MCK extenders.

 

[IPSI]

Doing a T1 remote EPN is not a low cost thing to do. To do it you will have to have either a G3R or an S8700 system. You will need to have a TN1654 DS1-C or the older TN574 DS1-C. Plus all the other the other hardware, and then when you get it all up an going, you will not be able to use almost 20% of you channels on the T1 because the Definity uses them for signaling.

And if anything happens to the T1 the entire site is dead.

I don't suggest the T1 remote at all! Depending on how big the location is, try to get your company to but one of the new small systems. The G350 is a pretty decent price for eveything it can do.

I hope this helps!

IPSI

 

[tconn]

I have a 12 port MCK set, which works reasonably well other than the annoying delay and DTMF screwups.

Would I be better off just throwing VoIP at this?

Investigating the G350 now.

 

[BuckWeet]

To do the G350 you'll have to make sure your headend switch is version CM 2.0, then you'll need the S8500 or S8700 as your processor. As well as make sure it has the CLAN and MedPRO setup..


BuckWeet