Depending on his comfort level with the PBX and if it can support 2
PRI's, he may also look at just letting the PBX do the call routing.
Terminate the PRI from the Telco on the PBX and then have another PRI
truck to the 5300 and let the PBX route the calls destined to the 5300.
When I was at a more telephone centric employer, we did just this.
David
On Dec 31, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Bob Tinkelman wrote:
I have a client who wants to do something in an area I have
very little experience.
He has a cisco 5300 being used to provide old-fashioned
dial-up Internet access, with a single PRI (obviously to a
pretty small set of users).
He has a small PBX that he's planning to upgrade so that it
can accept a PRI.
What he'd like to do is to find some way to share the PRI.
His picture is some sort of magic box (a micro-switch?) that
would sit in the middle of everything,
Telco----????----PBX
|
5300
handle some calls itself and pass through others as appropriate.
Before researching this, I thought I should find out if the
box he has (the 5300 with all its spare ports) could actually
do this itself, as in:
Telco----5300----PBX
I was hoping so, given that I think I remember seeing marketing
brochures that suggest, in a VoIP situation, you can do
Telco----5300----Internet----5300----PBX
In any case, I'm totally out of my area of experience (let
alone area of expertise :-) and figured I should ask, hoping the
answer is something like "Of course you can, just see
http://www.cisco.com....somthing-or-other... "