sundance-communications.com Forums Telephony Discussion Phone & VoIP Systems Avaya - Lucent Telephones & Systems Can you combine Partner systems?

The first floor tenant has a Partner ACS system with Partner VS voicemail module and some 308 adn 400 modules in a 5-module cabinet. The upstairs tenant has a similar Partner ACS system. The upstairs tenant is moving out and sold its phone system to the first floor tenant, who is expanding into the second floor. He wishes to have one phone system for both floors. How can I leave the two separate Partner cabinets and their modules in place and combine them into one system?

You can't.

Okay. So my Plan B is to put in one cabinet:
308EC R3.0
308EC R3.0
ACS processor R-unknown(3x8) + remote/backup flash card
308EC R3.0
Partner Voicemail VS R5.0 + 2 port voicemail flash.

Will this work?

Will I then have a 12x32 system?

How many voicemail ports, boxes and auto-attendants will I have? (The tenant wants 3 separate auto attendants on 3 separate C.O. numbers.)

The system will work. 12x32
2 VM Ports
I belive 3 AA is ok
3 CO is ok
Should work ok

Yeah, you can have 4 AA's on the PMVS R.5, but I would recommend getting a 4-port card to go in it.

Thanks for that info. The customer has two of the 4-port voicemail flash cards. Can I use both of them in the same Partner Mail VS R.5 module? It has two PCMCIA slots, I think. Will that give the system 10 voicemail ports?

The customer also has two remote/backup flash cards. Can I put both of these in the ACS processor module? Does that do anything that 1 does not?

I've seen two systems tied together in an odd way. Take one line port and plug into a station port on the other switch, and vice versa. Then, you have two sets of intercom numbers, 10-25, etc, on two lines. Using ling ring prefrences you could possibly tweak it so that lines ring at both places...kinda hard to explain.

No only 1 port card for VM
I agree with Mike, get a 4 or 6 port card.
Only 1 backup card.

Thanks for the advice.

If you are using a PMVS R.5 then your only two options are 2 or 4port.
The PMVS comes standard 2-port without any licence card, but you can install a 4-port lic card to get 4-ports.
You would need a Partner Messaging R.1,R.6 or R.7 in order to have the 6-port option.

Quote by bpitt:
True, you can tie two systems together by crossing ext ports of system A to line ports of system B and vice versa, but the systems will not work as one system as the OP requested.