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BCMguy - Any options to the rather expensive Option 11's? Are there server based software apps that can be configured to host VM and support MCDN? I guess you can purchase an Option 11C for about $3,500, which may be worthwhile depending on how many users you're adding at remote sites (Network Mailboxes require host and remote mailbox licenses), but other unique solutions may fit better if the price is right.

Matt,

I'm going to put a little bench time into this, and try to MAKE it work (without an Option 11), even though its not supposed to.

I'll let you know if I figure something out.

How many remote sites are in your application?
And, how many phones each?

Well, the central office where we want to host the VM has bout 20-25 users. Miami has about 15, Philly has about 15 and St. Louis has about 15 (very approximate). All sites have BCM 200s running 3.7. All have MCDN, IP trunking, CallPilot and voicemail licenses for each office at the remotes, and enough licenses for the whole company in the central office. So, 4 sites total, with about 60-70 people total. Thanks in advance for the effort!!!!

I've got it working on the bench right now Matt. Everything works just like you would think it should.

At the Main site I have the remote users built with regular Subscriber mailboxes. No Network mailboxes are configured, no AMIS or Digital Networking either.

It pretty much just works, once the MCDN network and CDP dialplan are configured.

I have it built out with BCM 50s. But, going back through the configuration, all of the necessary options are available in 3.7 too. So, I don't see why that wouldn't work.

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BCM Guy please do tell .. Me and Matt have been working on this for awhile and when a VM is left at the host site the light does not come on at the satellite site .. What are we doing wrong? There must be some out of the box thinking you are doing in order to get it to work. By following standard proceders from Nortel it doesn't and it says it won't work in their PDF.

Dial-plan is key!!!

Shoot me a PM with a rough layout of your dial-plan, and what your routing looks like.

Also, let me know if you have remote gateways configured or are using a gatekeeper.

Don't put too much time into it, just what a user at one site dials to ring a phone at another, then how that call actually routes (destination codes and such) to the far end.

YGPM!

Ah no Gatekeeper BTW sorry.

Well guys, your dial-plan looks good. Its configured just like mine.

Of the parameters that you sent me, I only have two options configured differently. First, my gateway protocol is set to CSE. I changed it to SL1 and everything still worked. Second, I have the the MCDN feature TRO set to YES. Setting this to NO does impact the integration. My lights still worked but, TRO should be on anyway.

I've pretty much spent the evening trying to break the MWI in my setup, and it just keeps working. I'll shoot you a list of other parameters we didn't discuss that you will want to check.

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