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Have a Legend 6.0 at 1 building. Want to add some extensions a few streets away at another building. Can we add another Legend at this building and integrate the 2 so receptionest can answer at one building and transfer to extensions at the other building. Would it be less expensive to change out system w/ some type of Voip system, or keep Legend and add another Legend at other building. Would we need T1 cards, etc...?
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Yes it can be done Add t1 between them and use same ext range 200 at 1 and 300 at the other, or what ever range you want. It will work seemlessly. We have a number of cust doing this with 1 cust using 4 locations.
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Thank you, is it called a point to point TI? Would this be a less expensive alternative to a VOIP system.
Also, this Legend that we have has a few analog cards for Bis phones, and 1 Digital card for MLX phones. Also has a Merlin Mail card. Does the 2nd Legend system for the new building have to be the exact software version as the original Legend?
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There are so many ways to accomplish what you want that I don't see how anybody could make a blanket statement about whether it's cheaper than VoIP or not.
If you're talking about a handful of remote extensions, you could just hook 'em up with Centrex and be done. MultiTech makes hybrid products (half TDM/half VoIP) which has bridged the gap for some of my customers.
And no, it doesn't have to be a full T1...it can be fractional. There are a number of ways to simulate a T1 if a P2P circuit doesn't make financial sense. For example, is there conduit or some kind of feeder between the existing and new building? If so, why not just make a crossover T1 connection between the PBXs? Roof-mounted laser or RF transceivers are super effective as well. Best of all, none of the solutions I mentioned have any recurring costs.
The second system need not have the same software revision, only the required minimum for networking.
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OK, thank you.No building to building access, we are doing that right now w/copper feeding between the 2 buildings to additional extensions.. But customer is getting rid of 1 building and moving a few blocks away in its place, so we cant run copper or roof mounted anything. The 2 building will now be too far away from each other.
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The 2 systems do not have to be the same verison software. We run Magix and legends over t1. Yes point to point T1.
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