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Phonebook Tips
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Phonebook Tips
Preparing the phonebook for your voip system is a
complex task that, at first, seems quite daunting. These
tips may make the task easier.
1.
Use Dialing Patterns, Not Complete Phone Numbers.
You will not generally enter complete phone
numbers in the voip phonebook. Instead, you’ll
enter “destination patterns” that involve area codes
and other digits. If the destination pattern is a
whole area code, you’ll be assigning all calls to that
area code to go to a particular voip which has a
unique IP address. If your destination pattern
includes an area code plus a particular local phone
exchange number, then the scope of calls sent
through your voip system will be narrowed (only
calls within that local exchange will be handled by
the designated voip, not all calls in that whole area
code). In general, when there are fewer digits in
your destination pattern, you are asking the voip to
handle calls to more destinations.