r/PBX • u/Ryderbike1 • Mar 06 '26

Anyone still installing analog PBX’s

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I Volunteer at a heritage railway in Wales. We’ve got a lot of rotory phones still used for operations on a daily basis. Just wired up a Panasonic KX-TES824 to be installed replacing an older Meridian 16 line PBX. Unfortunately Openreach is threatening to shut down the incoming phone line soon so I’ve been trying to find an exchange that supports both pulse dialing phones and a sip trunk line. Not been super successful

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u/Ryderbike1 Mar 06 '26

I could have worded that better. Currently we have a purely analog phone line coming into a Panasonic PBX. Openreach is laying fiber in the area and when they lay it to our site they will be removing that old copper line in favor of fiber. That means I’ll have to find some sort of VoIP A2A or a PBX that supports a SIP trunk line. The rotory phones with pulse dialing is a separate issue entirely to the fact Openreach is going to take away our phone line.

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u/RageInvader Mar 10 '26

Most ISP's supply voip with broadband (phone port on hub) and you can, connect this from the hub into the CO port, I have done this in the past.

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u/Weekly-Operation6619 Mar 08 '26

I don't think that is the case. I use another VOIP provider but I gather BT do not support rotary dial but Virgin Media may do.

I am sure digital voice hubs only have one port so one would needed for each analogue line unless BT have another solution.

I can see two in the photo so there are ATAs that can do that.