Load Balance ISDN trunks

[mattKnight]

Hi,

I have a site with 3 ISDN 30 trunks, (2 of these provide 60 ch with the same numbering over 2 circuits and 1 which is independant of the other 2).

The current 60ch are a little bit flukey particularily for international calls after usual business hours (yeah yeah, the carrier is using cheaper international routing after hours) and the remaining 30 ch are more expensive for calls, after the minimum charge is met.

Obviously, we want to reduce our call charges, but I don't want to keep having issues with international calls failing overnight (I like sleeping )

I could implement routing based on time-of-day, but I was wondering if there were any other sneaky ways of balancing outbound calls across different trunk groups. I don't want to interleave the channels from different carriers into the same groups though, if ic an avoid it!

Thanks

Take Care

Matt
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[janni78]

I guess you want to use the 30 channels during after hours for international calls, so you could route the internationals calls to a routepattern that has the 30 channel trunk first and then the 60 channel trunk so it would try those if the first are full/OoS.

"Trying is the first step to failure..." - Homer

 

[wpetilli]

or identify the countries that are the majority of the expense and put in routes to send those calls over that other TG.