iDCS500 interface to a dialer - 11/09/06 09:00 AM
I don't normally directly support my customers when they integrate a dialer to a PBX, but this is a new developer who has to integrate THEIR customer.... And both parties are in Mexico, only the business-type guy speaks English, and being a business-type guy, he doesn't understand our requirements enough in order to ask their customer, or the customer's installer. I don't speak enough Spanish to directly ask them either.
Here's what I basically need to know -
Can the iDCS500 look at a T1 or E1 as "analog" (just non-key) extensions?
What are the configs that analog extensions can be added?
What's the capacity of the system, as they have 4000 people on there now, and I'd need only up to 24 more extensions in order to dial up the agents (currently a total of 8 agents...)?
If they were to decide they want to dial out through the PBX, are there simple dial strings that such "analog" extensions can use to always get an outside line?
To put these questions in perspective:
Typically, my customers who integrate with a PBX, use T1 or analog "tie lines" between my dialer and their PBX. The Dialer dials up the agent's desk extension, keeps the connection up, and bridges the calls on the Dialer side. Most customers have the outbound phone service (T1 or POTS) directly connected to the dialer. But there are a couple that abuse the PBX, and dial through it to the already existing phone service... not ideal, when there's 2 or 3 outbound calls for each agent....
Anyway... let me know if there are any reasonable answers, or if you need more info.
Here's what I basically need to know -
Can the iDCS500 look at a T1 or E1 as "analog" (just non-key) extensions?
What are the configs that analog extensions can be added?
What's the capacity of the system, as they have 4000 people on there now, and I'd need only up to 24 more extensions in order to dial up the agents (currently a total of 8 agents...)?
If they were to decide they want to dial out through the PBX, are there simple dial strings that such "analog" extensions can use to always get an outside line?
To put these questions in perspective:
Typically, my customers who integrate with a PBX, use T1 or analog "tie lines" between my dialer and their PBX. The Dialer dials up the agent's desk extension, keeps the connection up, and bridges the calls on the Dialer side. Most customers have the outbound phone service (T1 or POTS) directly connected to the dialer. But there are a couple that abuse the PBX, and dial through it to the already existing phone service... not ideal, when there's 2 or 3 outbound calls for each agent....
Anyway... let me know if there are any reasonable answers, or if you need more info.