Telephone system vendor source?

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Q. I need a source for a telephone system unit that will control calls from generic touch tone telephones rather than only from proprietary system instruments. If there is a better newsgroup to ask this question on please let me know.

A. There are bound to be a ton of telephone system suppliers in your area. Try the yellow pages. Local phone companies often sell business systems as well. I know the AT&T Partner/Partner II system supported analog phone devices, aka POTS (plain old telephone service). That business has since been spun off to Avaya. Most system vendors should support this since nearly everyone needs to plug in a computer modem or fax machine. I have not run across any "business phone system" which uses generic touch tone phones - they don't have the necessary extra features/functions needed for use with multiple phone lines & multiple phones (stations) with internal station-to-station call capability (which normally requires two telephone lines). Modern day business phone systems with all these things already engineered in their phones & small KSU (this is where phone lines from the phone company and the wires from phone jacks in the building terminate in a convenient punch block) come in so many convenient sizes. Starting from something like 4 x 8 (4 phone lines & 8 telephones), 6 x 12, 8 x 24, 16 x 48, etc., these KSU units are less than the size of a briefcase. 24 x 64, 32 x 128, 64 x 256 type medium size phone systems can get expensive & elaborate, but still a bargain considering that you basically get the functionality of what used to be in a refrigerator sized PBX (private branch exchange) in 3 or 4 briefcase sized units. When several hundred incoming phone lines are required (means there might be more than a thousand phones/workers in the building), I think a full blown PBX is still needed if a professional phone system is needed.

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