[Asterisk-Users] Recommendations for Asterisk + Lucent MerlinLegend PBX Topology

[Brian]

> Hello all.
> 
> I've got management convinced that I can save them a bunch of money
> between
> our sites by hooking up Asterisk to our existing PBXs in such a way that
> intra-office calls route through Asterisk.
> 
> I'm a developer that's new to telephony and need to figure out how I can
> hook up Asterisk such that calls to other sites get routed from the
> existing PBX through Asterisk, while all other calls get routed to the
> outside world normally.
> 
> We have a Lucent Merlin Legend PBX. Can I hook it up this way:
> 
>               |-----|
> --------
> ----------    |     |-----|----------|
> |----------|------| PBX  |
> |Phone T1|----| PBX |-----| Asterisk |-------------WAN----------------|
> Asterisk |------|      |
> ----------    |     |-----|----------|
> |----------|------|      |
>               -------
> --------
>               |  |  |
> |   |   |
>              analog phones
> analog phones
> 
> The idea is that I set the PBX to use several lines for the same
> extension.
> So you could make that a single digit '5' extension or something. Then
> Asterisk picks up and asks for the WAN extension which would route to the
> correct Asterisk box on the other end, which would also have multiple
> lines
> to the PBX.
> 
> Is it possible to configure PBXs in such a way? i.e. that multiple lines
> are assigned to the same extension? Is there another way I should be
> researching doing this? My reasoning for multiple lines is to allow X
> number of simultaneous calls between sites.
> 
> TIA!
> -Ron
> 
> 

My diagram didn't work that well on some email clients. 

here's a link that works if you make the window wide enough: 
http://www.burnpc.com/website.nsf/all/081bb56dea4f4c5a86256f4d0015b295!OpenD
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Yes, that can be done. What you'd do is use IAX2 between the Asterisk
servers. I suggest you get a couple of old boxes and install Asterisk and
just start playing with it.