[Asterisk-biz] Meridian and Asterisk

Tue Jan 25 18:37:10 MST 2005

Daniel:

If you are looking for a voicemail system of additional cards for the 11C I
have the following parts sitting in my garage collecting dust if anyone
wants to make me an offer for some of the items listed below: ( note all
equipment is in Vancouver Canada and you pay shipping etc )

1 - Main Enclosure case: still wired to Bix blocks with all wiring harnesses
attached.

Part # NTAK11BB with the following components installed:

    1 - AC/DC power module: Part # NTAK04AB rel 12

    1 - CPU Card: Part # NTDK20CA rel 18

    3 - Digital Line Card 16 Ports: Part # NT8D02EA rel 05

    1 - Digital Line Card 16 Ports: Part # NT8D02EB rel 02

    1 - Digital T1/PRI card: Part # NTAK09BA rel 02

    2 - Universal Trunk cards: Part # NT8D14BB rel 06

    1 - Intelligent OPS Line Card: Part # NT1R20AB rel 04

    1 - Meridian Mail cartridge- occupies 3 slots of space ( I can get part
numbers of individual boards if required )

1 - Expansion enclosure case: Still wired to Bix blocks with all wiring
harnesses attached.

Part # NTAK11BD Rel 06, with the following compopnents installed:

    1 - AC/DC Power module: Part # NTDK78AA rel 11

    1 - Fiber Receiver Brd - 30' Opt11: Part # NTDK23BA rel 04

    1 - Digital Line Card 16 Ports: Part # NT8D02GA rel 07

2 - 54 VDC battery units Part # NTAK76AB rel 01

1 - M2250 Attendant Console Part # NT6G00AF35 c/w 3 handsets

1 - VT520 Video Terminal Part # VT520-V6 w/ Keyboard p/n LK411-AA

1 - Tandberg Data SLR 4 Ext SCSI Tape unit Part # 10153-801

URL: http://www.tandberg.com/sw231.asp

Gary Pede
VoIP and Wireless internet Division
Lookieloo.net Sales and Purchases Ltd.
Cell: (604) 819-9322
Email: voip at lookieloo.net
web: http://www.lookieloo.ca

  -----Original Message-----
  From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Daniel Grizzard
  Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:16 PM
  To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
  Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Meridian and Asterisk

  Thanks for the suggestions Scott. I’ll post what I wrote to someone who
personally asked me my goals and what not.

  It’ll give anyone wondering a better idea of what I’m looking to do..

  “A couple of main goals I have are to get all of our branch offices on the
same system so it’s easier to manage, I see asterisk as a good way to do
this. I also would like everyone to be on the same voicemail
system(currently using callpilot, I don’t know if this could still be used
with the branch offices going to asterisk but it would be nice). Basically
what I’m looking at right now is to have someone at a branch office have an
IP phone that connects over our frame relay network to our main office, then
the asterisk uses the 11c to connect out to the PSTN. My expectations are
what I stated before along with anyone being able to call anyone else in the
company via extension numbers, as well as check voicemail anywhere in the
company, and of course manage all phones from a central location.”

  Also to answer your questions our branch offices are on the same IP
network via T1 frame relays which some will be increasing to 2 T1s

  with multi-link pretty soon. I didn’t think about 911 incase one of our IP
circuits went down, I think I would go with your suggestion

  of just a single POTS line and analog telephone at each office specific
for 911. Also what I’m looking for right now is a direction to go

  in with the meridian system on what I’ll need to do. Such as, what
equipment(if any) will I need to add to the 11C? What will I need to do

  to the 11C(commands, adding routes, etc.) to have the asterisk use it?
What cards(assuming one of the digium digital cards) will I need for the
asterisk? I read somewhere that one asterisk server will only support 255
devices. My 11C currently has about 500, I’m guessing it won’t matter since
its on a different PBX system, but will it? I also had some questions above
in my quote about voicemail and my current callpilot setup if anyone could
enlighten me.

  Thanks again for everything,

  Daniel

  > Scott Lykens wrote:

  FWIW, I have an Option 11C tied to an Asterisk system and it works

  pretty well using PRI. I then use Nortel's ITG to talk to a remote

  location that I will be converting to Asterisk soon.

  How do you plan to have the remote locations tied into the central

  location?  T1? DSL/Cable modem? In your area you might want to get an

  internet T1 from Time Warner Telecom and then use cable modems at each

  of your remotes. Ignore this if you've got a good IP network already,

  just making suggestions so that you don't have a voice quality

  problem.

  Another issue you'll want to make sure of is that your remote

  locations have access to 911. Being a medical services provider this

  is always a good idea and would necessitate either a single phone in

  the office tied to a POTS line with stickers on every phone explaining

  or a seperate Asterisk server at each location with a single POTS line

  in it and contexts to intercept 911 and send it locally. By placing a

  server with a POTS line (or even BRI if you like) at each location you

  will also provide a backup route into the facility in the event you

  have IP trouble and could give you bandwidth efficiencies by using IAX

  trunking, assuming the potential exists for more than one call

  simultaneously from one location to another.

  On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:51:45 -0500, Daniel Grizzard

  <dgrizzard at floridaortho.com> wrote:

  > Anyone useing a asterisk in this situation: have a main office with a

  > Meridian Option 11C and 6 satellite

  > offices running norstars, would like to install an asterisk at the main

  > office(not to replace the main

  > office option 11C) but to use the meridian at the main office as its
PSTN

  > and have all of our sat. offices

  > as ip phones only and get rid of the norstar systems..any one doing this
of

  > have any information?

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