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Dialing between Tenants

Posted by herron on

We have one company that will have multiple sites. Some of these sites will be in different area codes.

If I were to keep them in the same tenant, then they would always have to dial 10 digits to make a call which is not acceptable by their standards.

If I were to keep them in separate tenants, they wouldn't be able to 4 digit dial extension.

I would rather keep them in different tenants because it would clean up IVR and route scripting in the Thirdlane manager.

Is there a way to 4 digit dial extension between tenants or a way to route calls out to a different dial plan?

Thanks,
--herron


Submitted by eeman on Fri, 04/02/2010 Permalink

yes, by loading a pattern as the outbound route, and that patter just runs a Goto() to reach the from-inside for the new tenant.

Submitted by herron on Mon, 04/05/2010 Permalink

Actually on second thought:

I would rather have them all in the same tenant.

Is there a way to have extensions use a different area code for outbound calling?

Submitted by eeman on Mon, 04/05/2010 Permalink

tell them they cant have 7 digit dialing is one simple way to solve your issue. Dont forget that as a single tenant, managing different callerid might be hell.

Submitted by herron on Mon, 04/05/2010 Permalink

yeah that was my initial impression is that it would get real messy.

I still dont know how/where to start for extension dialing between tenants if i were to seperate them

Submitted by herron on Mon, 04/05/2010 Permalink

so in the file outbound.include
at the section [outgoing-unrestricted-Company_A]

I would append

exten => 5534,1,Goto(from-inside-Company_B, $(EXTEN), 1)

and just sub 5534 for each extension?

Submitted by herron on Mon, 04/05/2010 Permalink

the thirdlane user portal does not have way of running a goto if i were to hardcode the extensions there.

thats why i am getting confused