How to Connect an Analog Conference Phone to a Merlin Legend Phone System

How to Connect an Analog Conference Phone to a Merlin Legend Phone System
How to Connect an Analog Conference Phone to a Merlin Legend Phone System

Do you have a Merlin Legend phone system and want to connect a conference phone to it?  You can and I’ll show you how…

How to Connect an Analog Conference Phone to a Merlin Legend Phone System

Hardware:

At my office we have an aging but working Merlin Legend phone system.  The phone consoles look like the one in the picture below.  They have a Speaker-Phone button on them but they do not make a good conference phone.

Avaya BIS-10 Handset
So what options do you have?  Do you need to buy something specific to the Merlin system?  The answer is likely “no.”
If your Merlin Legend phone system has a “012 with Ring Gen” card then you can use in a standard analog conference phone.  I ended up choosing the Polycom VoiceStation 500 and got a good deal on one on ebay.com.
Polycom VoiceStation 500 will work on a Merlin Legend phone system
Plug the VoiceStation into one of the lower 8 ports of the “012 with Ring Gen” card:
Analog ports on the Merlin Legend 012 with Ring Gen Card

Here I have plugged in a cat-5 cable to the analog jacks:

The red arrow indicated one of the analog ports

All you need to do is dial 9 to get an outside line on the VoiceStation and you are good to go!

I have written a handful of tutorials on the Merlin Mail and Avaya phone system:

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2 Comments

  • Great post. We have a Merlin Magix system and are trying to hook up a speakerphone with one of those D8AC blue connectors. We can’t seem to make it work. Do you have any posts or ideas on this?
    Thanks,
    [email addresses redacted by website author]

    • Scott, thanks for the question. I’m not familiar with that system but if it doesn’t have a card in it that has analog line ports then you’ll need to get an analog card for it.

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