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Using VoIP to Connect Phones Between Offices?

Posted by Cliff on from the interesting-technical-solutions-for-satellite-offices dept.

virtualPhoneWire asks: "My office is expanding to include a new facility which is just a few hundred feet just across the parking lot. The building is just far enough away to make running cable a pain in the neck, so to get data over there, we're setting up an 802.11b link, and a couple of simple Linux routers to handle the traffic, no problem. Now, the people in this new building are going to need access to our phone system, a simple Avaya Partner II key system. I would like to think that there is a way that I can patch them into our switch using some kind of VoIP technology. The ideal being that we can issue a couple of IP phones that plug into the Ethernet back-bone, take their queue from my DHCP server, and linkup with a device on the other end that ties them into switch thus giving them access like any other phone. As an after thought, being able to give other people on our network, both inside the building and via our VPN, access to this gateway to make calls would be a real bonus. We're considering an upgrade to a real PBX, but we would like to do this without blowing the pension plan. We would like to having something scaleable, and open source, if possible. Any thoughts?"

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  1. Re:VoIP by alatesystems · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And alot of people like to type alot alot.

    A[space]lot. Learn to spell. This is one of the reasons that I don't like slashdot. People seem unable to spell or use the simplest of grammar when articulating to the masses. I know the poster used preview as there were no other errors, but you would think among a community of geeks, there would be less people who type alot instead of "a lot". Similarly, why do people type hear instead of here or use their/there/they're incorrectly. It just doesn't make sense.

    People say that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, but if you learn it as you primary language, you should be able to represent yourself as a fluent speaker of said language.

    I know this is off topic, but it needs to be said. I know now that the moderators will have fun on this one.