asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Toshiba DK-40 and Asterisk...possible?

Hi all,

I have a potential client interested in an Asterisk PBX, which will
allow them to improve their virtual office services, among other things
(it's a Business Centre).

They currently have a Toshiba DK-40 and 19 DKT 2010-SD phones.  The
owner has told me that the phones are digital (not in the VoIP sense,
obviously).

Is anyone here familiar with this particular PBX? Any chance that it can
be integrated with Asterisk?  They would like to keep the phones, but I
frankly have no idea if they will work with Asterisk directly, or
through the Toshiba PBX via a connection to the Asterisk box.  Keeping
the existing phones makes a very big difference in the cost of an
Asterisk PBX, so I don't blame them for wanting to keep the phones
around.

Thanks.  I'd appreciate any and all comments/suggestions.

Regards,

Ranbir

-- 
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux Consultant
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com

-----Original Message-----
-They currently have a Toshiba DK-40 and 19 DKT 2010-SD phones.  The
-owner has told me that the phones are digital (not in the VoIP sense,
-obviously).

-Is anyone here familiar with this particular PBX? Any chance that it can
-be integrated with Asterisk?

Anything that speaks "phone" can be integrated with *.  You can sit an
*
server next to anything and make it work through a tie line of some kind.
The level of seamlessness and what you are trying to do will determine the
viability of doing this.

-They would like to keep the phones, but I frankly have no idea if they will
-work with Asterisk directly, or through the Toshiba PBX via a connection to
-the Asterisk box.

Sorry.  Digital phones speak whatever mfg language they were meant to
connect to, in this case, Toshiba.  If you want to add IVR functionality or
expand the voicemail, or add voip (basically, something else that the
Toshiba doesn't do) you can just sit the * next to the Toshiba.  If you want
to use it as the main system, you will have to toss the sets.

Look on the wiki about legacy integration for further information.

Jason Kawakami
www.optellabs.com
Salt Lake City, UT

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:08:55 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
<m3freak@rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> They currently have a Toshiba DK-40 and 19 DKT 2010-SD phones.  The
> owner has told me that the phones are digital (not in the VoIP sense,
> obviously).
Kanwar,

I have a Toshiba DK 280 that is connected to our Asterisk server here.
We have it connected in two ways right now. A T1 card going from the
Toshiba to a T100p on the * box. And we also have analog extensions
from the Toshiba going into a Adit 600. The analog extensions are for
doing transfers from the Toshiba to the * box. Unfortunately, Tie
lines on the toshiba do not support unsupervised trunk to trunk
transfers.

Anyway, you will definitely be able to integrate the two, it just
might take a little effort.

-Chuji