Interconnecting 2 offices with BCM 50

[MSDI]

Hi,

We have two Offices with Old Nortel Cics systems and we are looking to interconnect them.
Since we already have a bunch of phones and a very low budget, I was planning on buying 2x BCM 50 on ebay or other...

I would appreciate if you could confirm this will work as expected. Once I know it can be done, I will rtfm on how to do it. I did a lot of reasearch, but it's hard to be 100% sure on how it will work without hardware, licences, etc to try it out.

Basically here is how I see the solution:

Office A:
BCM 50
4 SIP Trunks (BCM 50 support sip trunks please confirm)
1 Remote worker connecting with an IP Phone
1 license for a digital trunk to office B

Office B:
BCM 50
1 Analog line
10 digital sets
1 license for a digital trunk to office A

Here are my questions:
1- Can an incoming call be answered automatically by CCR in Office A and transfered to someone in Office B ?
2- Can someone from office B be a member of a hunt group in Office A ?
3- Can someone from Office B Can dial 9 to go out on the analog line or 8 to take one of the sip trunk in office A ?
4- Can a call answered by CCR can be transfered automatically to an external phone (cell phone)
5- I've read it's possible to receive voicemails by email if we buy a license (1 for each mailbox) how does the mail get sended ? Is it just a matter of specifying a smtp server and an email address ?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards

 

[telcodog]

This is a classic setup for an eMetroTel UCX50 system. Yes, you can do everything you listed with the equipment you are planning on buying, but remember all the licensing fees you are going to incur and when you're done, you'll have a manufacturer discontinued system.

You would be better off buying a UCX50 for one of the sites and older Nortel IP sets for everyone. Get yourself a separate DSL for the sets and the remote site and have them connect as remote workers. At the site where you have the UCX, switch over to SIP trunking (this alone will save you several hundred dollars, if not thousands, per year). Your ROI would likely be less than 24 months. You would also get all of the modern features that any SIP system provides and all for the one price.......no additional licensing fees.

You'll find that this is a very cost sffective alternative.