@rarieta wrote:
Hello,
I've been on and off looking at ways to break away from our internal phone system, but really don't understand what I would need to do so.
Here is what we have/how it works and what I would like to do.
Right now our small school has a T1 Circuit providing dial tone for 6 phone numbers broken up as such:
1 main phone number for the building and a roll over number
1 main phone number for another department in the building and a roll over number
1 fax line for the school
1 fax line for the other department.The "other" department is a cyber school division inside the same building.
I thought the best way to enter VOIP using some open source solution would be to take a small subset such as the cyber school department and setup FreePBX to handle their 5 staff members.
I'm having trouble understanding how I would be able to utilize their 2 phone numbers and 1 fax to "port" them over using FreePBX since we have a T1.
I was thinking about getting a FX0/FXS card and simply taking the twisted pairs for those lines and plugging them directly into the FXO/FXS card. Somehow in my mind that seems like it would be work, however even if it did I still question if that is the "right" way to do it.
Can someone offer some advice on how I would go about what I want to accomplish?
Eventually I would love to replace our phone system with a system that has more flexibility on management for Moves/Adds/Changes. I possibly would love the idea of tying in our other two schools to have a main number with a switchboard to route calls, but that is really a long term dream. I have often though of a cloud based solution since our other two buildings aren't connected via fiber. Right now I do have a subnet setup with a site-to-site vpn between all 3 buildings. That subnet is used for our Domain Controllers to sync between each other.
Thank you!
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