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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think it's important to differentiate an
overlapping dialplan from a variable length dialplan. Not sure if those are
standard terms, but that's what I like to call them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An overlapping dialplan is when two sites use the
exact same extension to send calls to different people. In order to get that to
work, you have to carefully plan your partitions and calling search spaces so
that people in the same site dial numbers as they would normally, but to get to
the same extension at a different site, they would enter a prefix. Getting
overlapping dialplans to work with Unity is, well, impossible from what I can
tell. There is no partitions in Unity, so you need unique identifiers. You could
add digits to the begining and then use a voicemail profile to assign a mask.
This will work when calls are forwarded to voicemail and for immediate sign-in,
however, it doesn't help if you are using Unity for your autoattendant. People
would need to know the exact extension of the user they are trying to get a hold
of.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now a variable length dialplan is a little easier
to work with, and all you have to watch out for is interdigit delays for numbers
that have alternate matches. If you can plan things so that the longer length
dialplan does not use any numbers of the shorter dial plan, than you won't have
any interdigit delay issues. For example, if your four digit plan uses 6XXX,
than make sure your five digit plan uses anything but 6XXXX, otherwise, when
people dial 6123 and you have 612345, then there will be a delay. Unity uses
interdigit delay by default (no other option) so it will always wait a period of
time before attempting to complete the call.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps. Shout back if you have other
questions.</FONT></DIV>
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-----<BR>Lelio Fulgenzi,
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<A href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca.eh">lelio@uoguelph.ca.eh</A><BR>Network
Analyst (CCS)<BR>University of
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<A title=mpedersen@touchbase.us href="mailto:mpedersen@touchbase.us">Marcello
Pedersen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:10
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cisco-voip] Dialplan
conflicts</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Morning everyone,<BR> <BR>I would appreciate some
assistance on this. We have several CM sites<BR>that <BR>we are migrating to
one CM with multiple 2651XM MGCP GW. Currently on<BR>our <BR>main site uses 5
digits extensions and 4 digits on the other sites. Due <BR>to dialplan overlap
we plan to migrate all sites to 6 digits except HQ <BR>which will remain, as
today, 5 digits. Do you foresee a problem in doing<BR>that?<BR> <BR>Can
we have 5 and 6 digits ext within CM and will there be a problem <BR>if we
using a centralized
Unity?<BR> <BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>M<BR><BR><BR><BR>______________________________________________________________________<BR>This
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