Aastra OpenCom 100, Mounting And Commissioning User Manual

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Multi-Company Variant
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17. 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 OpenCom 100 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 OpenCom 100 hardware and software are used
equally by all the companies, however. It is possible to configure the
OpenCom 100 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:
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Up to five companies can be configured at the same time.
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Every user of the OpenCom 100 is assigned to a company.
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Each available bundle (trunk group) or SIP trunk is uniquely assigned to a
company so that incoming external calls can be transferred to the correct
internal subscriber.
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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.
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An individual exchange (“operator”) can be set up for each company.
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Each company can maintain the communication data of its business partners
in its own company telephone book.
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The charges can be billed individually for each company.