I want to configure my Cisco 7940/7960 phones to connect immediately when a number is dialed. I know there are dialplans that the Cisco phones load upon start-up, but I can’t figure out how to edit them successfully.
As it stands now, anything I dial takes 5-7 seconds to connect. I know there is a way to edit the dialplan, but can anyone show me specifically how to dial immediately for:
3 number extensions
9+areacode+number
9+localnumber
without any delay (i.e. as a normal phone).
Here’s the dialplan.xml file we used before we eliminated 9+ dialing. At the time, our extensions began with either a 2 or 3.
<DIALTEMPLATE>
<TEMPLATE MATCH="0" Timeout="1" User="Phone"/> <!-- Local operator-->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,011*" Timeout="6" User="Phone"/> <!-- International calls-->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,0" Timeout="8" User="Phone"/> <!-- PSTN Operator-->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,11" Timeout="0" User="Phone" Route="Emergency" Rewrite="9911"/>
<TEMPLATE MATCH="w!" Timeout="1" User="PHONE" Route="Emergency" Rewrite="9911"/>
<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,.11" Timeout="0" User="Phone"/> <!-- Service numbers -->
T<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,1.........." Timeout="0" User="Phone"/> <!-- Long Distance -->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="9,......." Timeout="0" User="Phone"/> <!-- Local numbers -->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="2..." Timeout="0" User="Phone"/> <!-- Corporate Dial plan-->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="3..." Timeout="0" User="Phone"/> <!-- Corporate Dial plan-->
<TEMPLATE MATCH="*" Timeout="15"/> <!-- Anything else -->
</DIALTEMPLATE>
In the dialplan.xml such as the one pasted above, on th line before the last is where you can control the timeout in seconds before the phone dials the number. 5 seconds seems to be ideal because you do not want to time out too soon which can make it dial an incomplete number. Also see the following thread: forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php? … alplan+xml