Configuring Aastra IP Phone Profiles
Configuring User Groups
Configuring User Groups
User Groups
AastraLink Pro supports the ability for the Administrator to choose a subset of IP phone extensions which operate together as a group. Groups may be associated with unique configuration for incoming call routing, and have their own voicemail and 'virtual extension' number, which is entirely separate from the extension number of the users IP phone.
Each IP phone may be a member of zero or more groups, and can overlap between multiple separate groups - for example, groups may have different membership lists, with or without any users common between two specific groups. The only provisioning restriction is that each group must have at least one IP phone as a member at all times.
Dial Plan for User Groups
You can configure the user group’s list of extensions to ring at the same time. This feature is a local extension of the dialing plan for your network. A dial plan describes the number and pattern of digits that a user dials to reach a particular telephone number. The AastraLink Pro 160 uses a dial plan number (65) that specifically identifies a phone number as a User Group phone number. The “6” provides feature access, and the “5” is used for Call/User Groups. (For a table of dial plan numbers, see Chapter 4, Table
The AastraLink prepends the “65” to the User Groups’s extension (for example, 655200, where “65” is the dial plan for the User Group, and “5200”is the virtual extension number for the User Group).
