MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1 | Issue 1 |
Network Reference | August 1998 |
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associates with routes, Facility Restriction Levels (FRLs), digit absorption, and digit prepending. This allows
■Toll Savings. Private networked trunks may allow you to realize significant cost savings on
—Callers on a local system, or individuals dialing in to remote access at a local system, can reach the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via outside trunks connected to other systems in a private network, avoiding toll charges or decreasing the cost of toll calls. No special dialing is required. For example, an organization might have a main office in Boston and a subsidiary office in New Jersey, connected by networked private tandem trunks between two systems. A user in the New Jersey office who wishes to make an outside call to the 617 area code (Boston) can do so through a line/trunk connected to the system in Boston. For example, he or she might dial, 916175551211. The local ARS tables would route this call over the private network trunks and use the ARS tables of the remote system in Boston to route this call. The system managers at each end of a private network set up ARS and Remote Access features to implement this functionality.
—In addition, local organizations or incoming DID calls use private networked trunks to make intersystem calls between networked systems, which may be geographically distant from one another, also resulting in toll savings.
■Service Cost Savings. In addition to toll call saving, there are two ways that organizations can save on service costs incurred from telecommunications providers that provide public switched telephone network access:
—You order a point to point T1 facility from a service provider, then use system programming to set it up for PRI signalling. As necessary, a service provider can provide amplification on the T1 facility, but does not supply switching services.
—You can tailor your use of PRI
—You can tailor use of T1 channels to support both