[Asterisk-Users] Newbie Question: Building an Asterisk system to replace an old PBX but using existing phone

[Sean Rima]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:34, Sean Rima wrote:
>> I have a brief from a local hotel to build a PBX using Asterisk but they
>> want to use their exisiting telephones and wiring from an old PBX that
>> no longer works.
> 
> Can you plug one of the phones into a REGULAR telephone line and get dialtone 
> and take and place calls?
> 
> If the answer is yes, you can use a te110p (T1 card) and an FXS channel bank 
> to connect the phones to Asterisk.
> 
> If not, you're SOL unless you can find some kind of proprietary-to-standard 
> phone interface, and the chances of that are slim to none.
> 

They are standard phones but I also want them to have all the features
that Asterisk does provide, so I may build a bos for my house and show
them that as well

Sean

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