Transparent Dialing

[Norcomm262]

We have a big opportunity to setup a network of BCM 400's together but we are a little green when it comes to setting up anything such as this. The data network is going to be fibered up to each office a total of 9 branch offices in all. They would like to have transparent dialing between them all. All tips and pointers is greatly appreciated Please, i have been trying to read up the documentation from the BCM 400 PDF's but to no avail. Also let me know what kind of routing or anything that maybe needed to be implemented on the data switches if their may need to be any. Thanks to all responses ahead of time i will be watching the replies anxiously.

 

[Dasheen]

All ip sets? if so separate network into 2 vlans. one for voice and one for data.

each site needs its own unique numbering plan. use cdp for all sites.

 

[Norcomm262]

No none of the sites phones are IP sets.

 

[fireeater]

setting up blind dialing may be hard to do with 9 sites
as you only have 9 digits to work with per site

the way i have set up the routing /destination codes
it to have each site different ext number

site a 2xxxsite b 3xxx site c 4xxx and so on

then you set up destination codes of 2 ,3,4 ect. that grab the appropriate trunk group and so on
example
dial 2221 (destination code 2) route 002 grabs trunk group 2(tie circuits to site A)absorb no digits so the system dials 2221

if you have 9 sites you may have to set it up like all site are the same as above but to get site A dial 82XXX site B would be 83XXX and so on
not truly blind but will work

HALLOWED ARE THE ORI

mike

http://www.ics-on.ca

 

[Norcomm262]

No one thinks we need any sip trunks or MCDN key codes for this to take place.

 

[dwpoole]

You will need keycodes for VoIP trunks. Either VoIP gateway trunks or SIP. The gateways will support either H.323 or SIP. The MCDN keycode would be needed if you were looking to be able to send name display, for centralized VM and to use features like TAT and TRO. On the dialing plan, just remember that the BCM400 is going to grab 434 numbers. So if you start a system at 2000, the last number will be 2433. If you keep that in mind while designing the dialing plan, you should be able to easily get a coordinated plan setup for all sites.

 

[Norcomm262]

will i need to have the customer purchase voip or sip trunks from their carrier AT&T or is the key codes from a vendor all i need to make this happen? As you can see I'am very new to this and I'am only an IT person for this very poor school district. Any and all info will help out tremendously. So to re-instate that we are putting a fiber back bone in between all nine schools and all the BCM's are currently up a operational.

 

[fireeater]

if you are connecting the bcm's over your own private network
then you only need the ip trunking /sip keycodes for each system , no need to get telco involved

HALLOWED ARE THE ORI

mike

http://www.ics-on.ca

 

[Norcomm262]

Thanks finally think i have my answer with the last post.All of this is going to be done over a private network. what kind of info am i going to have to give the IT guy for his part of the end, as far as routing or anything that he may have to configure. With the ip trunking/sip key codes does anyone have or now of any place where i can find any documentation on the installation of this all. I have tried to read through the installation docs that Nortel gives but we all know hoe that goes.

 

[Norcomm262]

So here are the schematics for the install so far. Each place has PRI in place right now, but I'm sure that we can cut a few of these out in the future. If anyone has any comments or thoughts all are appreciated.