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Hello All,

If I have a VPN tunnel linking 2 sites together and central site where the 7100 is has digital phones can I place digital phones at site 2 as well or do they have to be IP phones? There is only 1 7100 at that is at the central site. I am under the impression that any phone not directly connected to the OfficeServe is considered an IP phone, even if it is in the same location as the OfficeServer. Is that in fact the case?


Thanks in advance!

The length that a digital signal can go is usually 1200 feet. The only way you are going to get phones at the remote site is by using IP phones.

I am NOT a data person and don't know if IP phones work inside or outside of a VPN, but I DO know they require bandwidth and they work just fine with any kind of bandwidth, DSL, cable, or whatever that gives them the 62K or whatever compression that you are using.

IP Phones will work both locally and remotely

To use digital phones on remote locations you need PBX there, connected to central site via SPnet. You have to consider if it's worth, othervise use IP phones.

Thanks

The only way to setup TDM phones at the remote locatoins is to put another KSU in and network the sites together. Otherwise, I'd go with IP sets at the remote locations.

If I remember right, he only has five (5) phones at the remote site, hardly worth putting a KSU and SP Net there when he could hang a 7100 at the main site and put 5 IP phones on broadband at the remote site, I think I am actually getting bored of this same topic over and over again and wish some regional sales manager from Samsung would speak to him ear to mouth.