Large SCN's

[JayNEC]

I've got an opportunity that is greater than 600 stations across 13 sites... Would it be feasable to setup 2 SCN's, and network those together? Say an access code to reach the other SCN? Anyone done this?

 

[safecam]

How about setting up IP Office on each site and VPN them so all you have to do is say dial a two digit code for that site and now your on there system and simply dial there extension.

 

[Morrack]

Yes you can join them, but you can't have centralized voicemail for everyone as this requires SCN. Ie. you'll need to purchase a second VMPro licence for your 2nd SCN community. Your integration between sites will be Q.Sig standard integration. However you don't need to setup access codes or anything like that, just keep your extensions unique as if it were all SCN, then program appropriate short codes. For example, Site A in the main SCN wants to dial 5100 series extensions in Site D in the secondary SCN:

SC: 51XX
TN: 51N
SG: <whatever your VoIP line is to site D>
F: Dial

You would setup similiar to above at all sites in SCN 1, with shortcodes telling it how to reach all the sites in SCN 2. Then, do the reverse (with all permutations) for all sites in SCN 2.

Boy I love this stuff!

Peter

PS I do this all the time, it works great. You would of course then extend this to automatically toll-bypass calls that are local to any of your remote sites, automatically without the customer having dial any different than if it were a long distance call...

 

[JayNEC]

That's what I was thinking of.
you also cannot have BLF's and overflow hunt groups either as this requires SCN as well correect?

 

[IPGuru]

BLF's require SCN, but overflow hunt groups rely on ShortCodes & do not require SCN

 

[kristiandg]

On 2.1 I tried setting up QSIG instead of SCN and was still able to do BLF. I'm not quite sure why though. I initially had SCN, then changed it. So, maybe it didn't totally change.

Kris G.

 

[Morrack]

BLF's rely on broadcast traffic being passed, so part of the answer will be in your network configuration. Still, I'm surprised it would work at all (even if both were on the same subnet) without SCN...? Oh well don't look a gift packet in the mouth

Peter