Dial-Plan And Dial-Out Options For Microsoft's Office Communicator; Detailed Description - Polycom MGC-25 Release Notes

Dial-plan and Dial-out Options for Microsoft's Office
Communicator
A flexible dial-plan is available for MPI, ISDN, H.323 and SIP using Microsoft Office
Communicator. In addition, the use of a flexible number of digits for MPI, ISDN, H.323
and SIP dialout strings are enabled in the system.cfg.

Detailed Description

The MGC system supports the use of MPI calls, with MPI Network Service Dialing Mode
set to DIAL. In the Call via Conferencing Service of Microsoft Office Communicator, the
user can dial out to MPI endpoints using two methods:
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Prefix and Number: for example, 5551234567, where 555 is the MPI Prefix as defined
in the system.cfg and 1234567 is the dial-in number.
Dial string; for example: 1234567@polycom.com;user=mpi.
The user can use the same dialout methods for ISDN, SIP, H.323 or PSTN
endpoints.
For more information using the Call via Conferencing Service see,
Microsoft-Polycom Integrated Deployment Guide Phase 5, Chapter 3
"Polycom Meeting Scenarios", "An Office Communicator User Dials out to
another Office Communicator User".
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