I found some postings from Google (notably from Mark Spencer) about successful integration of a legacy Toshiba Strata system and Asterisk. I am also facing that current dilemma. The general legacy solutions that I can come up with is very easy -- either making Asterisk a "proxy" (or frontdoor) to the Toshiba system, or have it operate behind the Toshiba via regular extensions. I'm looking to improve the VoiceMail system (and conferencing, etc. etc.). All in all, what I'd most prefer is completely dropping the Toshiba system and just replacing the PBX itself and keeping the current physical phones. Has anyone had any success in accomplishing this, or could refer me to better information on the web? All that I really need to figure out how to do is to get the phone specific (Toshiba DKT2020-SD and DKT2010-H phones) features such as Paging and the Digital Displays to work. -Ken Shaw...
> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Shaw > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:56 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Legacy Toshiba Phones > > I found some postings from Google (notably from Mark Spencer) about > successful integration of a legacy Toshiba Strata system and Asterisk. > > I am also facing that current dilemma. The general legacy solutionsthat> I can come up with is very easy -- either making Asterisk a "proxy"(or> frontdoor) to the Toshiba system, or have it operate behind theToshiba> via regular extensions. > > I'm looking to improve the VoiceMail system (and conferencing, etc. > etc.). > > All in all, what I'd most prefer is completely dropping the Toshiba > system and just replacing the PBX itself and keeping the current > physical phones. Has anyone had any success in accomplishing this, or > could refer me to better information on the web? > > All that I really need to figure out how to do is to get the phone > specific (Toshiba DKT2020-SD and DKT2010-H phones) features such as > Paging and the Digital Displays to work. > > -Ken Shaw... >As far as I know, you will not be able to keep the digital phones. They are PBX specific. I am faced with the same situation. Unfortunately, I cannot get the funds to replace all the phones, so I am stuck with using the Strata PBX and replacing the Stratagy voicemail with Asterisk. I will slowly replace the phones and phase out the Strata. Michael
Leo wrote:> Not necessarily so. Recently I discovered that Artisoft's Televantage > Soft PBX can support Toshiba Strata CS digital phones (DKT 2000 and > 3000) through a PCI 16-port digital station card (Toshiba part > #CS-DKTU-TV). Apparently, the Strata CS is an OEM licensed version of > Televantage. It would be quite cool if an Asterisk driver can be > developed for the 16-port digital station card.Interesting. I just checked out the Televantage site at TrueData (http://www.truedataonline.com). In their FAQ there's a question "Can TV (Televantage) use Digital Sets?". The answer includes the tidbit: "The Toshiba digital station cards are a slight variation of the Intel MSI160PCI and are interoperable with other Dialogic - Intel Televantage hardware." The good news is that Intel have Linux drivers for the MSI160. Guess someone needs to find some details on how the Tosh card differs ... The bad news is that the Tosh station card doesn't come cheap ... a quick google search shows prices around $2,500! For 16 ports? Ouch! At that price, it's cheaper to throw the Tosh phones away and buy IP hardphones. -- David Gurr Congruity Ltd. Hemel Hempstead UK