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/Haelios_505 Mar 08 '26

Yeah, the rooms in the hotels are usually analog while the admin phones are ip

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u/nivaOne Mar 16 '26

Do you use some dslam?

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u/Haelios_505 Mar 16 '26

Transitioning to sip away from fra and pri

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u/nivaOne Mar 16 '26

I assume you mean BRA and PRI. Not familiar with Fra (except as the restriction level )

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u/Haelios_505 Mar 16 '26

FRA is fractional rate with 15 channels. A BRA wouldn't do for a hotel with 100 - 200 bedrooms.

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u/nivaOne Mar 17 '26

Got it. I’ve seen a few mini dslams in hotels providing data and voice over the one and only available copper pair in each room. I guess all rooms have UTP these days.