[cisco-voip] dial plans to redo or not

[Matthew Loraditch]

I've worked with clusters with different types of dial plans, some with planned out dial plans where things were nicely segmented where every location had a defined set of extensions, and where a user could easily know where an extension was by its number, etc. In that sort of system we had DIDs and used translation patterns to convert them to the proper extensions. Suffice it to say in no case did anything more than the last 2 digits of the DIDs match the extension it corresponded to

Then there's the other end, Extensions were all setup based on the DIDs provided by the telco and I couldn't tell you whether extension AAAA is at Campus A or Campus B let alone what building at each campus (ok not quite that bad but a newbie would struggle mightily)

How do other people here handle this? Do you do my first scenario and plan out as much as you can or ?? What would you do if you came into a system like the second one I mentioned, I really would like to redo the entire thing, but how feasible is that. Ideally I would use my test server and rebuild the entire thing.

Any thoughts, ideas, etc, appreciated!


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