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Has anyone connected a Panasonic system to a Nortel MICS via PRI/T1? If so, do you have any tips/tricks/hints?

The main objective is to feed the Telco PRI into the TDE200, then connect an existing MICS to a 2nd PRI card to allow extension dialing and outside calling from both systems. I was thinking this would be simple but now I'm second guessing just how easy this will be. Hopefully the Panasonic will allow outside line '9' dialing from the Nortel PRI to the Telco PRI :rolleyes:

do you have the ability to test the tde and the mics
on the bench before you rip into this ?Has this application been sold already or is this in the planing stage?

No bench time, testing will be done after hours before we cutover. Equipment is already hung on the wall...

We have the option card to allow DISA on the TDE.

Now that I'm thinking about it I'm wondering if I might have to use some analog trunk/station ports to link the two systems.

You don't need that option card for disa the tde has built in disa via esvm in it !I dont see a big deal pri to pri as long as you don't have duplicate station numbers you may need enhanced software on the TDE though I assume you know the MICS well enough too build ars on it and it supports qsig and has good ars or lcr ....
What would be nice is get an extra pri card For the MICS fire up the tde connect it to the mics befor pulling the PRI off the MICS and battle test the mics with a couple of test trunks on TDE and have ars or LCR dialing plan I.E seamless dialing out and tde to mics ,mics to tde calling all battle tested and worked out beforehand you commit to a cut If you look back in history on this site it took a whole week to work out the bugs on a site that had 3 tde's on one PRI linked together on fiber to each building can not imagine just walking in after hours with out panasonics possilble support and out the the kinks after the cut on the fly unless you have saints for clients!! Want fly me up there to help :idea: ?? ??

Geez, that sounds like the type of stuff I would toy around on weekends just out of curiousity... before I had kids, of course...

Well, keep us up to date, I'd like to hear how that went.

Hmm, I'll think about the offer KXTVET! I agree, I'd love to have and extra PRI card for the MICS - I could do all this while in production. We have a Toshiba PRI card on the shelf, but not a Nortel one

Interesting that this is coming up at the same time there's a QSIG discussion going on in the Nortel forum! I'm not sure whether or not QSIG is included by default when you install a MICS PRI keycode, hopefully it is.

The routing from the MICS perspective is a no brainer and I assume I'll use a combination of "Quck Dial" and "Other PBX Extension" from the Panasonic perspective.

Hmm, look like no go on the Nortel Q-sig.

BTW, we do have the enhanced software on the TDE.

Not to be overly verbose, but it looks like I could set the TDE PRI card to "extension" mode which would serve the MICS in CO mode. Not too sure if I'd still have to ability to send DID's to the MICS...