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color:#1F497D'>I don’t like the 7 digit dialing, multiple area codes end
up having the same exchanges, then you’re done for. Looks like 10 digit
might be your best bet, due to your limitations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Syed Ahmed<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 12, 2010 6:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> jason.aarons@us.didata.com; moody@arizona.edu;
cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Dial plans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Totally agree. We had our Cisco CCIE VoIP
verify our dial plan before we deployed it. I do agree with Walt that 7-digit
dialing is a good thing. It is scalable. Do use translation pattern for your
5-digit dialing. <br>
<br>
Syed<br>
<br>
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:06:52 -0500<br>
> From: jason.aarons@us.didata.com<br>
> To: moody@arizona.edu; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Dial plans<br>
> <br>
> You really need to look at your DNs/DIDs and map it out carefully. That<br>
> said my generic advice is put 10 digit DNs (or E164 if intl) everywhere,<br>
> then setup 5-digit local translation patterns. This allows Unity<br>
> UM/UCCX to work across multiple sites. The larger you are the more<br>
> important it is to plan carefully before deployment and seek<br>
> professional help to discuss the pros/cons and lab test to avoid<br>
> interdigit timeout/potential matches exist problems.<br>
> <br>
> Search Cisco.com for Deploying Variable-Length On-Net Dial Plans with<br>
> Flat Addressing<br>
> http://www-uk.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/srnd/7x/devmobil.h<br>
> tml#wp1043929<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net<br>
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Walt Moody<br>
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 5:00 PM<br>
> To: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Dial plans<br>
> <br>
> Bill,<br>
> <br>
> How about 7 digit dialing internally and 7 digit, 10 digit, 1+, and<br>
> 011+ dialing "outside?"<br>
> <br>
> We switched to NANP-style dialing more than 15 years ago and it has<br>
> really simplified our phone translations. One unanticipated benefit<br>
> is that our users now know their whole phone number rather than just<br>
> the last 5 digits. That really helps when you have 40,000+ DID numbers<br>
> in five area codes.<br>
> <br>
> -walt<br>
> <br>
> On 2/12/2010 1:58 PM, george.hendrix@l-3com.com wrote:<br>
> > Hi everyone,<br>
> ><br>
> > I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best approach for a dial<br>
> > plan or of any link you can send me for best practices. Currently we<br>
> > only have a couple of sites which have 5 digit dialing within each<br>
> > cluster and also of course internally in each cluster. We are<br>
> > consolidating into one single cluster. We will also have about 25<br>
> remote<br>
> > sites later. Right now, users on the VOIP system dial 9 to dial<br>
> external<br>
> > numbers. We have a new site which is assigned numbers where the 6^th<br>
> > digit is a 9, so for 5 digit dialing, there number is 9XXXX. I<br>
> > understand that I can simply put the line DN below external route<br>
> > patterns (but also causes a 15 second delay for those extensions to
be<br>
> > dial as the system waits for more digits). However, my concern is
that<br>
> > there may be an overlap of extensions later in the system 25 (or
more)<br>
> > sites. I don't think it will happen, but I'd also be concerned of two<br>
> > users with the same last 5 digits, even though users are in different<br>
> > area codes.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> ><br>
> > Bill Hendrix<br>
> ><br>
> > L-3 Communications<br>
> ><br>
> > george.hendrix@l-3com.com <mailto:george.hendrix@l-3com.com><br>
> ><br>
> > STRATIS - Horizontal with Tag line<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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