IPS 2000 dialing plan help needed

[phadobas]

I have this IPS 2000 connected to a 2400ICS via CCIS link. They can just dial between each other any extensions they want.

Recently, I added another switch to our facilities, and its an SV8500. This switch is also connected to the 2400ICS.

So now, the IPS users can dial the extension numbers of the 8500, and the call gets relayed to the SV8500 via the 2400ICS.

However, there is a catch which makes this plan to not work fully just yet.

The SV8500 has 5 and 6-digit long extensions, while all extensions of the IPS and the ICS are 5-digit long.

I have everything figured out between the ICS and the 8500, but not on the IPS. When you dial from the 2000IPS, the extension number can be 5 or 6 digits long, if the number starts with 2, or 4. Numbers starting with 7 or 8 are all internal, 5-digit extensions within the IPS. Numbers starting with 2,3,4,5 or 6 are all extensions on the ICS or the 8500, so when you dial these, you actually dial out from the IPS, and the first digit acts as an access code to the CCIS route that sends the call to the ICS with all dialed digits.

All I have to accomplish is to tell the IPS to accept 6 digits instead of 5 for numbers starting with 2 or 4. And if it's a 5 digit station, well the user won't dial a 6th digit. How do I accomplish that? Which command(s) are involved?

I'm good at programming the ICS and the 8500, but have the least knowledge on the IPS. I have all the manual but currently short on time figuring this out from scratch, that's why I turn to you guys to give me the basics, to make it faster.

Thanks.

 

[belevedere]

It could be a simple as extending the maximum digits from 5 to 6. CMD 857>2>05 =>06. There will be a sloght dely if you dial a 5 digit station, but it will go through.

 

[phadobas]

This is the kind of answer I was hoping for. And somewhere, there should be a way to reduce the delay by reducing the dialing digit timer (or however it's called...).
Any hint for that command?

 

[belevedere]

Set CMD 3521> tk rt>02, and 3546>tk rt>1. That will reduce the timing somewhat.

 

[OzzieGeorge]

Seems a bit hit and miss, relying on the timeout!

Are you saying that you can have 2xxxxx and 2xxxx numbers or 4xxxxx & 4xxxx numbers? How have you handled that between the ICS & the 8500? Seems to me there would have to be a routing arrangement to work that out and if so then you need to duplicate the arrangement in the IPS digit length assignments.

 

[phadobas]

Dear Ozzie,

I think you have a point there. Now that I took another look at it, numbers starting with 2 are all 5-digit long, but they can be on the ICS or the sv8500. So it makes it easy, as from the 'viewpoint' of the IPS, they should just all be 5 digit. Easy.

That leaves me with numbers starting with 4. On the ICS and the sv8500 I went spelled out groups of beginning digits or full phone numbers where i had to and told both system whether that's an access code to the other system, or a station within its own.

Knowing the expected traffic from the IPS into the sv8500 (via the ICS), I'm not worried about doing the same on the IPS. I'll just let numbers starting with 4 allow 6-digit dialing.

But in case somebody gets upset about it and I have to take the time to do this, would I use CM857 for that as desribed earlier?

 

[OzzieGeorge]

In a word yes. Seems brief and to the point so I'll pad the post out by observing that fact

 

[peporter]

FYI

You can also force the number to dial when you want by pressing #. If you have 5 and 6 digit dialing across and you dial 4xxxx you can follow it with a # instead of waiting for the timer to time out. This is of course after you set command 85 as stated above.





Phillip E. Porter
Senior Systems Engineer
Telecommunication Solutions Group, Inc. (TSG)

 

[phadobas]

Actually, after implementing this, I have an issue. I only made the change for numbers starting with 4. All other phone numbers are 5-digit long.

So phone numbers starting with 4 can be either 5 digit long or 6 digit long. So I did CMD 857>2>04 =>06.

Now what happens is I can only dial the 6-digit stations. If I dial a 5-digit station, I get the "rst" on the screen and fast busy on the phone. Call won't complete. If I dial a 6-digit station, it works fine. If I have a 5-digit station programmed into a speed dial button, it works. Gee. How complicated can it get?

Any idea what am I missing?

 

[OzzieGeorge]

You are missing the fact that if your numbers are mixed, you quite litterally have to programme each number individually!!!!!