Off-premise PBX extension via IP?

Let's say we have a Panasonic KX-TA824 with KX-T7736 sets. We'd like to move a station to
an off-premise location for an employee who will work from home. (Both the office and the
employee's home have broadband connections.)

I've looked at a lot of "extenders" that work with analog stations or SLT's. But what
we'd like is for the remote worker to have a set with line and station appearances,
intercom & call transfer just like the 7736 would have in the office. It doesn't have to
be a 7736, but it would have to at least have all the same line/station appearances,
intercom functionality and call transfer ability.

Some messages I've seen on the groups have alluded to products that would allow the remote
user to just plug in the same model of set at the remote location and have it work as if
it were in the office, but no further details are ever given or else the proposed solution
is an analog extender for use with a SLT.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Kyle

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:31:28 -0700, "Kyle" <> wrote:

>Let's say we have a Panasonic KX-TA824 with KX-T7736 sets. We'd like to move a station to
>an off-premise location for an employee who will work from home. (Both the office and the
>employee's home have broadband connections.)
>
>I've looked at a lot of "extenders" that work with analog stations or SLT's. But what
>we'd like is for the remote worker to have a set with line and station appearances,
>intercom & call transfer just like the 7736 would have in the office. It doesn't have to
>be a 7736, but it would have to at least have all the same line/station appearances,
>intercom functionality and call transfer ability.
>
>Some messages I've seen on the groups have alluded to products that would allow the remote
>user to just plug in the same model of set at the remote location and have it work as if
>it were in the office, but no further details are ever given or else the proposed solution
>is an analog extender for use with a SLT.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?

Yep, go get a Panasonic NT-136 or the lower priced 265 set, then go
out and buy a TDA-100, a VOIP extender card, an 8 port trunk card, an
8 port DHLC card, a 16 port DLC card, and however many 7633 phones
over the 8 7736's you have in your office.

The good part is that you have either 24 or 8 programmable buttons in
the voip phones.

Geeze, if you want a Panasonic multi-line solution you gotta get the
product that accepts multi-line phones.

Carl Navarro

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:31:28 -0700, "Kyle" <> wrote:

>Let's say we have a Panasonic KX-TA824 with KX-T7736 sets. We'd like to move a station to
>an off-premise location for an employee who will work from home. (Both the office and the
>employee's home have broadband connections.)
>
>I've looked at a lot of "extenders" that work with analog stations or SLT's. But what
>we'd like is for the remote worker to have a set with line and station appearances,
>intercom & call transfer just like the 7736 would have in the office. It doesn't have to
>be a 7736, but it would have to at least have all the same line/station appearances,
>intercom functionality and call transfer ability.
>
>Some messages I've seen on the groups have alluded to products that would allow the remote
>user to just plug in the same model of set at the remote location and have it work as if
>it were in the office, but no further details are ever given or else the proposed solution
>is an analog extender for use with a SLT.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>

Kyle,
There's a company called MCK Communications that made a box which
would "extend" a multi-line station set's proprietary (Lucent &
Nortel) interface to the home worker. I don't know if they're still
in business, but you might want to Google for them.

My Internet connection for browsing is really running slow, but I did
see some results for articles about them.

Zeng