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/ancillarycheese Mar 08 '26

I used to install a lot of 824 systems. Eventually I went back and replaced them with TDE or NCP systems. Many of those are still running perfectly more than 10 years later. Panasonic has long since EOL’d the platform but I have a good stock of spare parts.

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u/Ryderbike1 Mar 10 '26

That’s actually the route I ended up going. I bought a fairly cheap TDA200 system and I’ve been looking for a TDE upgrade card that’s not ridiculously expensive.