Aastra Telecom 800 manual Multi-Company Variant

Multi-Company Variant

12. Multi-Company Variant

Communications systems are frequently shared by several companies. These com- panies want to jointly use the existing infrastructure (e.g. the existing lines and fea- tures of the system), while at the same time they wish to organise and pay for their communication completely independently of one another.

This “multi-company variant” can be implemented using the Aastra 800 within a shared office, for example.

In the multi-company variant, the companies are essentially completely inde- pendent of one another. This allows them to have their own trunk lines, which is useful for billing purposes. The Aastra 800 software is used equally by all the com- panies, however. It is possible to configure the Aastra 800 for each company and define the extent to which the features of the system may be used.

In brief, the features of the multi-company variant are as follows:

■Up to five companies can be configured at the same time.

■Every user of the Aastra 800 is assigned to a company.

■Each available bundle (trunk group) or SIP account is uniquely assigned to a company so that incoming external calls can be transferred to the correct internal subscriber.

■For each company, every route can have its own code. For example, it is pos- sible to activate different routes with the code “0” for different companies. This enables separate charging for outgoing external calls, for example.

■An individual exchange (“operator”) can be set up for each company.

■Each company can maintain the communication data of its business partners in its own company telephone book.

■The charges can be billed individually for each company.

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