| Slow down----It's not all that confusing....
Let's start out...what kind of switch do you have? Judging by you saying only IP phones are left, I'm guessing a 2000 IPS.
Some simple questions for the beginner....
How many cabinets do you have? Each cabinet holds physically 64 ports. The average cabinet holds 8 cards x 8 ports per card. But there are exceptions.
There are actually 3 types of phones:
Analogs-those plain push-button phones. They take an analog line card.
Digital-that's those nice display and speaker phones NEC calls Dterms.
IP-they look a like digital Dterms but have a RJ-45 jack in the back for a CAT-5 cable.
#1 rule--do not attach analog cards to digital phones or vice-versa.
If you have less than 8 physical cabinets, you can add another cabinet if you want to add more hard-wired (legacy) phones. But if you've maxed out the physical capacity of the switch, all you may have left are IP's. You didn't give any details here.
To move phone, there's several ways to do it. Some are easy...some are hard. The hardware way, have an electrician, or someone who knows how to punch down wires, move the cablles to the phone jacks at the blocks.
Or if you're confident with your commands, you can move the extension with the programming.
Or better yet---during the installation, I had punch down panels of all the extensions installed. All the extensions come out at cat-5 panels. I have them labeled with the extension numbers down the row. When someone moves, I move the cat-5 jumpers to their phone jacks from one port to the other. Click-click-and I'm done in seconds. Even our NEC vendor and techs think that's the smartest way to go. It cost us about a $1000 more during installation, but down the road, I don't have any service calls to move phone jacks.
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