Aastra Telecom 800 User Manual

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Multi-Company Variant
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12. 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 Aastra 800 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 Aastra 800 software is used equally by all the com-
panies, however. It is possible to configure the Aastra 800 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:
Up to five companies can be configured at the same time.
Every user of the Aastra 800 is assigned to a company.
Each available bundle (trunk group) or SIP account is uniquely assigned to a 
company so that incoming external calls can be transferred to the correct 
internal subscriber.
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.
An individual exchange (“operator”) can be set up for each company.
Each company can maintain the communication data of its business partners 
in its own company telephone book.
The charges can be billed individually for each company.