The Premier PBX. $1600
$1320 RRP
ISPs call for special pricing.
kit-small.jpg (9404 bytes) There isn't much to say about this plug and play PBX.  It simply plugs into the ISDN and PSTN lines, and your normal telephone, fax and modems and your away!

Programming as five minutes of hard work with the supplied software.  Point and click.  Yu can create a simple configuration from all extensions ring on an incoming call to call groups, ring groups, complex carrier choice routing, indial numbers and much more.

 
It really is plug and play.
Simply plug up to 8 ordinary telephone devices into the 8 extension ports.  Each port delivers CALLER ID so you can use phones with built in CID or even external CID devices.  Modems work REALLY well! 

If you program common phone numbers into the Speed dial memory from the supplied software, when a call comes in, it even displays the calelrs name as you entered in Speed Dial!

You can also program whch extension can call out on which line.  I have mine so all my outbound calls go via Optus on the second PSTN port.  If it's busy then the second outbound call goes out via the Telstra PSTN on the first PSTN port.  We don't call out on the ISDN at all.

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ONLY $858 including GST!
INPUT PORTS

2 x BRI (Onramp2, Onramp Home highway)
      Terminated on RJ45

2 x PSTN  (One for Optus and one for Telstra!)
     Terminated on RJ12

1 x Music On Hold.
      Plug your CD player in directly!

 EXTENSIONS

8 x RJ12 Extensions for normal
               phone/fax/modems

1 x Serial Port - logging, programming

1 x Paging for connection to your PA system!

EXTRA SOFTWARE - What I use for Call Management
I have a neat little PERL script that runs as a daemon under Linux using Perl 5.6.0.  It logs all PBX activity to a text log file.  Incoming calls are recorded by email to nominated accounts, and if you know who the call is from, it can e-mail the person to say the call arrived!

Inbound calls can be on a per extension or group basis broadcast using SMB messages and Windows Popups.  THis shows what number was called (or the name your indial eg: Service for AHNET, or Sales, or Mums Special Like) and who is calling, or at least the Calling Number if it's provided.

If you twist my arm enough I'll supply the flat file version.  It requires PERL knowledge to configure.  I'm working on an interface for X, Windows, Ncurses and WEB for full call control and management.

I'm also adding a VOICE Mail module using a voice modem so when your not there, your calls can be answered with the correct identification, even greet the caller by name if they present caller ID and record a message.
If you have a power fail, I strongly recommend on the last extension port (Ext 18) you put a normal telephone or phone/fax.  This will be the default service used when power fails.  It cross connects to PSTN1 on failure.

Some Tech Specs
It has a Motorola RISC CPU, with 4 MB Flash Memory for program and configuration.  It has Lucent ISDN/DSP chips for handling the ISDN calls.

Software
If you wish to use my super notification and logging software you can find it all at ftp://ftp.ah.net/premier

01/06/01 Release V6.2 of the premier perl script
18/01/06 Release V6.3 added ctic command to reboot loop to dump more diags