Can I use Network Virtual Office without INAC?

[Ben2MIS]

Hi Fletch - I read your post on Network Virtual Office and you were mentioning INAC as a requirement. We have a network of CS1000 systems and our ESN dialing plan is UDP, using SIP trunking, but rather than using INAC on our SIP routes, we use a DMI on each location code to manually insert our ESN AC2 on the originating node, and then our UDP routing entries in our NRS include the AC2 (e.g. 6222, 6393, 6395 etc.) It's a bit weird, but works fine for VoIP calling between CS1000 systems, but we get "Invalid ID (3)" when attempting to do Network Virtual Office between systems. Before we invest the time to redo our entire dial plan and SIP trunk configs, can you confirm that using INAC instead of DMIs and removing the AC2 from our NRS UDP routes will allow Network Virtual Office to work?

 

[Reusser]

Network Virtual office will not work with DMI or IDC

 

[Ben2MIS]

Turns out you can use Virtual Office without INAC configured (i.e. when you use DMI to insert the ESN Access Code on the originating node for SIP / H323 trunk calls).

For Virtual Office, the Access Code and HLOC are defined under LD 15 NET_DATA. Need to set AC2 for HLOC, and define your HLOC under ISDN. However in our case, we then need two sets of HLOC UDP route entries in our NRS, one with the Access Code and one without. All needlessly complicated, but it works great now!