Administrator's Guide

Time of Day Routing

Issue 5 October 2002 1887555-233-506

Time of Day Routing

You can use Time of Day Routing to select route patterns for calls according to the

time of day and day of the week. You need to define the route pattern you want to

use before you set up time of day routing.

You can route calls based on the least expensive route, and you can deny outgoing

long-distance calls after business hours to help prevent toll fraud. You can use

partition groups to assign different time of day route plans for different groups of

users.

Automatic Alternate Routing (AAR) or Automatic Route Selection (ARS) must

be administered on your switch before you use Time of Day Routing. Time of Day

Routing applies to all AAR or ARS outgoing calls and trunks used for call

forwarding to external numbers.

Interactions

■ Distributed Communications System (DCS)

Be careful when you make Time of Day Routing assignments in a DCS

environment. The user’s COR Time of Day Plan Number determines

whether or not the call is routed to a DCS trunk group. The call loses

feature transparency if it is not routed to a DCS trunk group.

When a call routes over a DCS trunk, the switch at the far end routes the

call according to the COR Time of Day Plan Number of the incoming

trunk.

■ Remote Access

When remote access is used and an authorization code or barrier code is

dialed for an AAR or ARS call, the COR Time of Day Plan Number of the

barrier code or authorization code is used to route the call.