Time of Day routing allows for calls to be treated differently based on the time of day and day of week. This allows for things like automatically rerouting calls to a different destination when the company is closed, not allowing … Continue reading
Sometimes it is necessary to have a phone dial a preset destination any time it goes off hook. This is common in lobby phones, or the push button intercoms used on doors and gates. This configuration is called Private Line … Continue reading
Deploying Unified Communications Manager to geographically diverse sites adds a number of challenges not experienced in single-site deployments. The primary new challenges are: Bandwidth usage and call quality over WAN links Availability during WAN outages Call routing to the PSTN, … Continue reading
Local Route Groups were introduced in CUCM 7 as a cleaner way to configure PSTN routing for multiple sites. Prior to Local Route Groups, the only way to route calls out a local gateway was to configure a partition for … Continue reading
On a UCM system I have worked on, we were running into problems with both Music on Hold and ad-hoc conferencing when a recording profile was applied to DNs. Music on Hold would not play, and conferences could not be … Continue reading
Administrators of a phone system are sometimes called on to block calls coming from specific numbers, such as telemarketers or other harassing calls. Until Communications Manager 8.x, the only way to block incoming calls based on the calling number was … Continue reading
Mobile Connect is Cisco’s trade name for what is often called Single Number Reach, or SNR. It extends a call to a user’s desk phone out to up to ten other phones, such as home and cell phones. This allows … Continue reading