<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>You can do the same with CTI route points, translations and route patterns. Actually, you can do more. And as far as I know, you don't pay licensing costs for either. Route patterns have to route off somewhere, usually using a gateway or trunk, however.<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: "Dane" <dane@pktloss.net><br>To: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:01:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [cisco-voip] Fake phones - Call Forwarding?<br><br>Got a CM 4.1(3) system that I inherited that was setup with a bunch of<br>fake phones to do call forwarding on old extensions / DIDs.<br><br>The story is that when they moved buildings they setup a new<br>CallManager system with new extensions and DID's for the<br>administrative office phones / users. This allowed them to setup and<br>test everything in advance.<br><br>When they moved they ported the old DID's over and set up fake phones<br>to match the old ext. and then set the CallFwdAll to the users new<br>extension.<br><br>There is no easy way of mapping old DID's to the new ones. Also a lot<br>of these fake phones forward to another legacy system that runs the<br>call center agents.<br><br>Anyway.. despite how I may feel about what was done and why I need to<br>get past that. :-)<br><br>The point of sharing this is I need a better way to handle and setup<br>these forwards. Why? Mainly because I am planning to move to CM 7 by<br>the end of the year. In my discussions with Cisco sales guys they<br>informed me how different licensing is now in the new versions and<br>kept asking for phone count since the licensing is impacted by phone<br>count.<br><br>I can't give them a good count right now due to the shear number of<br>fake phones that are setup to do this call forwarding.<br><br>There are many ways to do this but I am not sure what the best way is,<br>especially when factoring in licensing.<br><br>Thoughts or ideas on best way to handle call forwards without setting<br>up a fake phone? And ensure I don't run into another issue that would<br>impact licensing like fake phones would?<br><br>Obviously I am not just talking about a handful of phones. We are<br>talking hundreds of these fake phones that just do call forwarding.<br><br>Thanks in advance.<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>