<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I think you've hit on something a number of us are looking at. I've done exactly what you have said. I have created route filters. We have gone one step further and have added router filters for both number dialed without the 1 and with the 1. For example, if you dial 1 + remote local number, I drop the 1 and send it out the remote gateway as a local number.<br><br>Tedious to setup, but not to hard to maintain. I've setup a script that checks localcallingguide.com once a week and emails me updates/differences. Granted, we're in two relatively small exchanges. I think I'll feel a little differently if/when we enable a gateway in the metro Toronto region where there are, as you said, pages and pages of exchanges.<br><br>The good thing is, the more exchanges, the more wildcards you can usually use.<br><br>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>"Bad grammar makes me [sic]" - Tshirt<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jason Roysdon" <cisco-voip.20081105@jason.roysdon.net><br>To: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:00:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [cisco-voip] CCM/CUCM Route Filters<br><br>Problem: Customer wants to do TBP least cost routing tail hop-off out of<br>the best sites (wherever they can place a local call that has no toll<br>nor LD charges).<br><br>Problem: Customer wants to limit some phones to truly local (no toll, no<br>LD) calls, and not call anything within the area code (7 digit) that<br>isn't local.<br><br>Problem: Some area codes *require* 10 digit dialing if it is local, or<br>11 digit dialing if is it LD, but we don't want to just give users<br>direct access to DT with the press of a line or a 9, so we have to know<br>how to dial each Area Code / Prefix (Office Code in CCM Route Filter speak).<br><br>For all, the solution is to enter in Rate Center info via Route Filters<br>and create Route Lists (with digit manipulation) / Route Patterns<br>pointing at the right Gateways to use these.<br><br>In smaller Rate Centers, this isn't that much work. In large metro<br>areas, these are pages and pages of numbers, requiring dozens of Route<br>Filters to create. The interface to add clauses to a Route Filter is<br>slow and cumbersome. Worst of all, once you enter in a huge Rate Center<br>for a customer, there isn't a way to save that work for another<br>cluster/install/customer.<br><br>Or is there? That's my question to all of you - is there a better way<br>to create Route Filters or deal with these problems? Is there a way to<br>export the Route Filter data so that it could be imported into another<br>cluster? If so, then could the Route Filters be created in an automated<br>fashion so they could be imported as needed?<br><br>I don't care about copying Route List / Route Patterns / Gateways, as<br>this is almost always going to have to be customized, and isn't that<br>much work.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Jason Roysdon.<br><br>BTW, if you need to look up Rate Center info, try this site:<br>http://www.localcallingguide.com<br><br>There are other places sell the info in bulk monthly updates as well,<br>such as a product called Area Code World.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br></div></body></html>