Partner Door Phones

[dudeEWin]

Is it possible to integrate 12 Partner Door phones in the Partner ACS ? If not, what avaya switch can handle that many doorphones?

 

[1043]

Yes.The system can use 2 analog door phones and 5 door phone controllers ( each working 2 phones). The door phone controllers use c.o. ports so you would need 5 line ports.
Kind of pricey but it will work.

 

[PartnerGuru]

I have decided that contrary to Avaya techs, you can keep adding true Partner Doorphones because they operate like an analog telephone. You won't get the "ding-dong" tone on doorphone 3+ but you can program the calling location so it will display its calling location with a standard CO ring tone.

We now use two regular Partner Doorphones, two Door Controller Doorphones (so we can directly release doors through phone system), and added a Viking E-30 using an open CO port. We hope to add two more doorphones using the Viking E-30's. By using the CO ports you can assign the "door-lines" to whichever telephones should answer/respond to the particular door(s). This works till you run out of CO ports.

Welcome your thoughts and comments.

I believe you can run two or more Viking door units with proper Viking controller. Training staff might get tricky with more doorphone types! A Viking 3000 door unit will allow dialing directly to a specific extension so we might try one but they're pricey, too.

If all else fails I look to Viking for solutions but, it requires some thought and nobody gives their gear away!

 

[itpphoneguy]

Hi PartnerGuru,
Well, for thoughts, I don't like the single chime the door phone gives. It's easy to miss. As you mentioned, Viking and others sell solutions that keep on ringing. You can change the line ring tone so you know it's a door phone without looking.
-Chris