On 24/10/09 00:59, Lyle Giese wrote:
PATRICK KANGETHE wrote:
I want to interface asterisk with a legacy pbx that has around 23
extensions through my 8 fxs card, how do i work around this?
Hint: I have already terminated 8 extensions from the legacy PBX, i
was thinking whether i can peer the extensions from the PBX i.e like
5 extensions be peered to one extension connecting to the fxs? How
can i do this?
Thanks in advance,
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Are you planning to get rid of the legacy PBX completely? Or is
Asterisk going to be a second PBX?
I am going to assume you are replacing the legacy PBX. You can setup
analog extensions so that you have multiple phones on each FXS
channel. But they will be like a party line. If you put 6 phones on
one FXS, all 6 ring at the same time, only one person can use that
extension at a time.
However you can add SIP phones to Asterisk and each can have their own
extension instead. It just requires cat 5 cable back to a switch for
each phone.
Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.
Just to add my 5 cents - connecting too many phones to an FXS port can
cause problems. The term is REN - ring equivalent number, and it's used
to describe the maximum phones to attach to an FSX port (from memory)
PaulH
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