[Asterisk-Users] integrating with existing PBX

[Jeremy Mann]

Using a real world example, lets assume you want to add 12 extensions and 12
"phone lines" that process through the asterisk box.  I use those numbers
because they add up to 24 which is the number of channels a single T1 is
capable of signaling.  Your hardline PBX would then wire into a channel bank
and then using a TDM T1 card into the Asterisk box.  Planning a good
extensions.conf would allow the two to work seamlessly together.

Extending our real world example, a user on the Hardline PBX calls an
extension that you've designated needs to goto the asterisk box, it travels
down into the channel bank, into the T1 signaling, into asterisk, and out
whatever means you need it to travel(SIP/IAX/H323)).

(Hardline User)->Channel Bank->T1->Asterisk->(H323, SIP, IAX, ...)

For specific help doing such a task you probably need to sit down and think
out how you want it laid out.  If you're a DIY guy, then ask specific
questions with examples to the user list, or for consulting type support ask
around in the biz list.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Florin Andrei
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 2:19 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] integrating with existing PBX

I'm looking for a way to give VoIP capabilities to an existing PBX: it's
made by Mitel and it's used in a small/medium environment (a few dozen
phones, but the PBX has capabilities for up to 200, if i remember
correctly).

Any high-level guidelines on how to integrate Asterisk with a PBX that's
already in use? Probably that particular PBX is not supported directly,
but are there ways to somehow hook-up to it and route calls from IP to
PBX or back?

Entirely replacing the existing PBX with Asterisk is probably out of
question, for reasons that dip a bit into the non-technical realm. :-)

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/


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