I have a customer who would like to tie one of their XTS nodes to a Shoretel "system" at a remote location in Texas via IP.

The hub system is a Triad 3, so IP networking from the hub is out of the question. What they are asking us to do is to put an IP card in one of their local nodes that will provide trunking to the Shoretel.

They want to have station-to-station dialing, basically networking without really being networked. They also want to route outward calling in Texas through the XTS node here. They have accepted the fact that we may have to provide trunking in two different directions. Since I don't know anything about the Shoretel equipment, I really can't say for sure that we can even accomplish this.

What they are basically asking for is to use a Shortel system as a networked node. Does any body know if this will even work, and if so, what limitations we'll be facing?

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX