atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Avaya - Lucent Telephones & Systems Can you combine Partner systems?

I have done exactly what your asking Butch, I had the same request by a customer, But It will not work as one as pointed out by Mdanial. The bigest complaint I had was you just about have to have two receptionists to make the thing work. Otherwise you can't transfer callers that ring in on system A to system B's extensions or direct to voice mail subscribers. You can transfer them to system B's acting receptionist and they can transfer to system B's VM subscriber or ext. It gets complicated!

I see. Thanks for the help.

We have connected Partner systems in the past (before IP Office came out) miles away from each other with multiTech boxes and FXS/FXO to line and station ports of each system via the www.
But in order to transfer a call from site (A) to a specific ext at site (B) the call would have to go to site (B's) AA and vice versa.
Not very pretty or user friendly to say the least. No BLF,centralized VM ect.

So, to answer your question:
Can (2) separate Partner systems be connected to operate as (1) system? The answer would be: No

your best solution is to go IPO with partner sets, or look for some used Magix equipment with ETR cards. It will save you the headache of trying to make something work that was outside of the intended parameters.