Voip and Partner

[fondog2]

What's up Gents,

Our company is wanting to step into this arena and I have searched the past posts and it seems not much has been logged on the site. We are thinking of setting up using one of the co ports on the Partner. I am thinking of setting this up using a dial 8 option but wanted to know if anyone had a better idea. I have the PBX in our corporate office set up already using the our analog trunk ports for testing but need to work the bugs out on the Partner end. Any direction would be great.

Thanks

 

[gknight1]

you are wanting to use a CO Ports for VOIP???

 

[fondog2]

Don't ask. They have a network team bringing the line in to there switch and breaking it out as analog. Like an Adtran.

 

[gknight1]

Gotcha

 

[skip555]

well if it breaks out as analog then just treat it as a co line

I have had a few customers use vonnage (against my advice ) the partner handles it just like any other line

 

[fondog2]

Thanks all for the response,
Do any of you have a better solution for connecting VOIP to the Partner and still having 3 CO lines in use. What they want to use it for is toll bypass from the remote site back to the corporate office over a WAN. I am researching the best option and I am waiting on some info from a company called Multi-Tech to send me there solution. When I get it I will post it and see what you all think.

 

[kwing112000]

If you Have Cisco equipment they can break out and FXS port and push it over the WAN link. That is if they have a WAN link back to HQ. I am sure other providers have FXS ports but i have only used this on Cisco equipment. Then you put it in the partner as a CO line and train the users to try and use that for Toll calls to HQ.

 

[gknight1]

Or they could buy an IP office

 

[fondog2]

You are talking about 155 in ten states. I am not a big fan of the IP Office. Because it does not do live programming. I don't like to down load, make my changes then upload. And then have to stop incoming calls to upload my changes. The Partner is the same. I would love to see Avaya do it like the Definity. As many Avaya systems as we have if I was going to replace them with an IP solution (and I am sorry to say this) I would replace them with the Nortel BCM 50. Sorry. Believe me as many good things as Avaya has the BCM is a very slick system as a competitor.

 

[phneguy]

I think you are misunderstanding the IP Office capability. Only certain functions require the system to be "rebooted" after changing. Some changes can just be merged into the current and a LIVE UPDATE is just that.