[cisco-voip] Srst alias

[lelio at uoguelph.ca]

Cool... It's interesting how some things differ. I wouldn't call Bell  
Canada or Telus 'small' ,but I get the drift. :)

Lelio Fulgenzi, Senior Analyst
Computing & Communications
University of Guelph
519-824-4120 x56354

...sent from my iPod - please pardon my fat fingers ;)

[XKJ2000]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn at Geeks.ORG> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:17:20AM -0400, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
>> As far as I know, toll free numbers are translated at the CO to a  
>> local 10
>> digit number. You should be entering aliases (aliasi?) for those  
>> local
>> numbers not the toll free numbers.
>
> That depends on the telco. They can deliver a tollfree call the same  
> as any
> local numbers across a direct trunk to the LD provider, sending direct
> digits however many digits you specify to them. Or the smaller ones
> get the tollfree call mapped to one of your local numbers to route
> appropriately.
>
> AT&T has delivered me 1-877 numbers across a PRI trunk directly. I
> would do DID call routing same as anything off the called-number  
> digits.
>
> Or, smaller LECs that I have obtained 1-877 numbers through have it
> delivered to one of my local-number blocks instead, so I eat up one or
> several of my local DIDs.