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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Things to think about:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Change access code to something other than 9. Otherwise there always seems to be a group that become buddy buddy with their local 911 operator. Possibly use 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Pick a number to be your access code for intersite callings, for example 1. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>One option would be 1 + <2-digit site code> + <current 5 digit-dn><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Create a translation pattern that for 5 digits that do not start with 0,1 or 8 or [2-7]XXXX then prepend their site code. This way calls within the site (intra-site) is still a 5 digit code<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>For your site that starts with 9, as painful as it is, I would move them out of the 9 range.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This is all going to be fairly painful, but will definitely make life easier, and allow you to scale up to 99 sites. This maintains their existing 5 digit extensions, and keeps intra-site dialing the same or very similar. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dennis Heim<br>Network Voice Engineer<br>CDW Advanced Technology Services<br>11711 N. Meridian Street, Suite 225<br>Carmel, IN 46032<br><br>317.569.4255 Office<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>317.569.4201 Fax<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>317.694.6070 Cell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:dennis.heim@cdw.com" title="mailto:dennis.heim@berbee.com">dennis.heim@cdw.com</a><br><a href="http://www.berbee.com/" title="http://www.berbee.com/">www.berbee.com</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>george.hendrix@l-3com.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 12, 2010 3:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] Dial plans<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best approach for a dial plan or of any link you can send me for best practices. Currently we only have a couple of sites which have 5 digit dialing within each cluster and also of course internally in each cluster. We are consolidating into one single cluster. We will also have about 25 remote sites later. Right now, users on the VOIP system dial 9 to dial external numbers. We have a new site which is assigned numbers where the 6<sup>th</sup> digit is a 9, so for 5 digit dialing, there number is 9XXXX. I understand that I can simply put the line DN below external route patterns (but also causes a 15 second delay for those extensions to be dial as the system waits for more digits). However, my concern is that there may be an overlap of extensions later in the system 25 (or more) sites. I don’t think it will happen, but I’d also be concerned of two users with the same last 5 digits, even though users are in different area codes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bill Hendrix</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>L-3 Communications</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:george.hendrix@l-3com.com">george.hendrix@l-3com.com</a></span><span style='color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red'><img border=0 width=234 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CAABFE.A8494F20" alt="STRATIS - Horizontal with Tag line"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>