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Hello all.

I just inherited an old school Samsung Prostar DCS key system to install in our office. I have some questions that you could hopefully help with. This is my first PBX so if any of this sounds crazy please tell me .

It has a T1 card, an SLI card, an 8SLI card, 2 DLI cards, and a ROM-1 card. We have the standard 12 key DCS phones (no LCD).

We have 3 POTS lines from our phone provider. Researching all I could, I believe we need a TRK-B card to support the 3 lines from the phone company right?

The DCS phones then connect to either one of the DLI cards (up to 8 on each card) and they wire via a patch panel using the 25 pair cable run from the card interface.

I haven't looked entirely through the manual, but I'm guessing there's a way to assign the POTS lines and extensions to buttons on the individual phones via the program phone?

I'm really just looking for a general layman's breakdown on what is happening within the key system, it seems like there's just acronyms everywhere and they don't really help me understand. I understand there's inside lines, outside lines, and know they have to talk somehow, but I'm having a hard time determining where the hardware interaction stops and programming takes over. Any help you can give is appreciated.

Yes a TRK B1 card will support 4 pots lines.A TRK C1 card will support 8 pots lines.
If you need external page or MOH you will also need a TRK A1 card which will support those features as well as 2 pots lines.

To program you will need either a display telephone or a Sim which connects to a digital port and provides a serial interface.As well you would need the PCMMC program for your software level.In your case a display set is probably the best bet.

Each DLI card will support 8 digital extensions.

Thanks for the quick reply. You wouldn't happen to know if there is a programming manual online somewhere? We have a phone which was presented to me as a "programming phone", I'm guessing this is the display telephone you mentioned.

I have a paper copy of the manual so I don't know if where an one online is.
Any display set can program yes.