Auto Call Forward Conundrum

[acsprogrammer]

I need to forward all calls to a local Pri. In essence, client dials local number, terminates on "box" "box" picks up channel on LD T1 & dials it - customer unaware of transfer - we pay the LD charge.

What kind of BOX will do this sort of thing? I've found single analog line units that will do it but nothing at the PRI / T1 level.

 

[BuckWeet]

You could do that on the gateways by manipulating dial-peers.. or translation patterns in the callmanager

Why don't you just get the telco to do forwarding for you?


BuckWeet

 

[acsprogrammer]

Telco charges $20 per DID - we need 2000 DID's per PRI (It's a long story but it does make sense in the end!)

Using a call manager makes the unit cost of the forward realistic.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[tbilan]

You should be able to do this in call manager.

Put translation patterns in to route the DID to a phone extension.

Make a 2000 phones with 2000 lines (extensions) and set the call forward all on the extension to the external phone number. We forward calls to our cell phones all the time.

Cake. Lots of typing but Cake. I'm sure if you have an SQL junkie out there they could whip you up a script to make the phones or you can batch upload them etc.

Enjoy.
Tom Bilan
TJBA, Inc.
CCNP, CCDP, MCSE & CNE

 

[AdmanOK]

We're doing this exact same thing, but not quite on the same scale. Works perfectly. We have DID numbers in Houston TX coming in over a PRI trunk that then get routed over our private network and sent out as a local number in Tulsa OK. Our customers call a local TX number that gets redirected to a local OK number and no one pays long distance!

 

[BuckWeet]

You dont' really even need a callmanager to do this.. You could just do traslation patterns in the gateways.. So it'd go into that box and right back out, if thats what you're looking for...


BuckWeet

 

[tbilan]

That config may probably be too large to hold in NVRAM.
Tom Bilan
TJBA, Inc.
CCNP, CCDP, MCSE & CNE

 

[BuckWeet]

Depends on what he needs to translate..

If you want all calls coming into go to a single number outbound, it could be done in a single translation..

BuckWeet

 

[tbilan]

They could just plar that but when he said he had 2000 DIDs then that to me looks like 2000 different people/extensions etc. You may be right though, I didn't see him say anything about how many destinations.
Tom Bilan
TJBA, Inc.
CCNP, CCDP, MCSE & CNE