atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General General Telephone & Systems Information No system exists which meets these requirments???

I've done a lot of research but can not find a telephone system which meets the following requirements for a home system:

Handles at least two outside CO lines.

Default upon picking up phone is an available CO line.

Internal station to station calling after dialing 9 (or some other digit) for internal call (home run wiring is present)

[in other words, the reverse of the normal situation where you can dial an internal call upon picking up the handset but must dial 9 for an outside line]

Internal call to ALL phones

Transfer outside calls internally with announce or send direct to extension.

Uses standard analog phones -- no special or proprietary phones needed.

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There are some other features which would be nice, but these are the major ones.

The "pick up and automatically get next external line" and having to dial 9 [or other digit] for the internal network" seems impossible to find, as is the ability to use regular phones.

I'm trying to set up a sophisticated home telephone network which looks like normal residential (e.g. uses standard phones) and operates like normal residential (e.g. pick up phone, get outside line) and only special features (e.g. station to station calling) require special keystrokes.

Any system out there meet these requirements?

Im not sure about the other systems, but a Toshiba CTX28 would be able to handle that request. Actually, any system should be able to do all those and more. Since you want to use analog phones with no programmable buttons, to use features, you would have to memorize a lot of access codes.

The Talkswitch does all that.
See www.Talkswitch.com.

The CTX28 (now replaced with the CIX40) can handle a maximum of 2 analog ports. You could do this with a CIX100, but at a higher cost.

I would think most newer systems could do this as long as they have enough analog ports.

Johnny Cakes,

to the board.

You have a unique request, indeed.

Please take the time to complete your profile so that we may know who we are assisting.

Had you thought of Plexar (centrex) service?

Hope you have a good time here on the board.

Hey, you guys are fast AND knowledgeable. I had looked at the TalkSwitch but stopped reading after it described dialing 9 for an outside line, or 8x for a specific outside line. After reading Michael Paul's message, I read further in the manual and discovered the "Direct Line Access" function, so it appears that it would address my needs.

Thanks everyone!

Johnny you are asking for the impossible If you get CO dial tone when you pickup handset then the 9 will be sent to tel. line.
If you use a system with call routing you could manage this or use a key phone with intercom button

LOL, of course you are right, although I did say "or other digit" and a system could listen for and intercept the * or # keypress.

TalkSwitch uses the switchhook "flash"

I want to say a little more about the Talkswitch.

Right out of the box you can dial another extension directly, and you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. But you can reconfigure it to get an outside line immediately. Then to dial another extension you have to press the Flash key first. For instance for the first extension you would press "Flash-1-1-1".

It works with plain old phones, plain old wireless phones, plain old fax machines and proprietary Talkswitch phones as well as some other proprietary phones.

See www.Talkswitch.com.

Panasonic 848 system.