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:
- Avaya Merlin BIS-10 Phone Handset
- Merlin Legend Phone System
- Polycom VoiceStation 500
(ebay)
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.
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| Avaya BIS-10 Handset |
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| Polycom VoiceStation 500 will work on a Merlin Legend phone system |
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| Analog ports on the Merlin Legend 012 with Ring Gen Card |
Here I have plugged in a cat-5 cable to the analog jacks:
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| 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:
- How to Connect an Analog Conference Phone to a Merlin Legend Phone System (this post)
- How to Transfer a Voicemail Message in Merlin Mail
- How to Program a Forward Button on an Avaya BIS-10 Phone
- How to Check Merlin Mail From an Outside Phone
- How to Input Names in Merlin Voicemail’s Dial By Name Directory
- How to Program a Direct Voice Mail Button on an Avaya BIS-10 Phone
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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,
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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.