[Asterisk-Users] Asterix - Digium replacing our current key system

[Drew Foehn]

Anthony,

Thank you for your speedy reply, after doing more research today i've 
managed to track down a flyer for the digital key system we have.  Me 
not being a telco specialist doesn't help the situation.  Ok we have 09 
(6 voice / 3 data) (3 companies in the building) telstra lines from the 
PSTN that go into the Aria 34-e system. then the lines go into a channel 
bank (not sure what kind) I talked to my phone guy and doesn't think the 
phones will be able to work without the Aria system. If thats the case I 
think it would be hard to convince managment of the benefits of putting 
Asterix in place especially seeing as the Aria phones cost about $400 
each.  What kind of  setup would you recommend to replace the Aria? 
Having the Asterix machine before the Aria is not really something I 
would like to do, because it seems like too much of a hassle and we have 
3 companies sharing the Aria system.

Company 1: 3 voice call hunt/ 2 fax data
Company 2: 1 voice/ 1 fax
Company 3: 2 voice on call hunt

Any hints, or recommendations on hardware would be greatly appreciated

http://www.telefonix.com.au/Aria%20Main.pdf <-- a link to a datasheet 
about the Aria

Drew


Anthony Wood wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:42:19PM +1100, Drew Foehn wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I'm posting to the list to get some ideas on whether or not asterisk and digium
>>products would be right for my organization.  We have 3 lines that comes into
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>Since you are in Australia, I assume these are 3 plain lines from Telstra.
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>>a LG digital key (Aria-43e) system, with Digital LG phones. I have two
>>questions; could we replace the digital key system with a PC running Asterix
>>and keep the same phones?  Also We have about 14 users and 2 offsite offices
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>Depends on what standards the phones use.
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>At worst you can put Asterisk between your Aria and your phone lines to keep using the Aria Handsets.
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>At best you can just use the phones with an ADSI channel bank.  If the phones have any Austel stickers
>on them then likely you can.
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>>and we are looking at saving costs from our long distance by using VoIP and our
>>ADSL line, what would be the ideal setup for this?
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>I think the best way forward is to convert 2 of your lines to ISDN (giving 4 voice lines), leave the 3rd one
>as ADSL/fax, and connect to asterisk with 2 AVM Fritz!Card PCI from the Australian
>distributor.
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>To connect the phones, either get a Yank Channel bank and a T100P if the phones work that way,
>or plug your Aria into a T100P or E100P if it has those interfaces, otherwise into a TDM400P or two,
>depending on how many lines it supports.
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>The X100P is not A-ticked, neither are most yank channel banks, so you need written permission
>from the Telco to go down that route.
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>cheers,
>Woody
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