DIRECT INWARD DIAL PBX TRUNKS

Connect incoming calls quickly and cost-effectively when you give customers the ability to directly dial a specific extension on your PBX system.

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Give customers a direct path to your team

Direct Inward Dialing minimizes costs and hold times by allowing incoming calls from the switched network to reach a specific PBX station directly, without an attendant.

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Benefits

Cost Control-Dollar

Minimized costs and hold times

Help customers and partners reach your team quickly without relying on an attendant to answers calls.

Minimized costs and hold times

Help customers and partners reach your team quickly without relying on an attendant to answers calls.

Collaboration

Personalized connections

Give your team and departments unique telephone numbers that don’t require dedicated lines.

Personalized connections

Give your team and departments unique telephone numbers that don’t require dedicated lines.

Router

Efficient routing

Handle incoming call traffic more efficiently and enable your team to receive calls after business hours.

Efficient routing

Handle incoming call traffic more efficiently and enable your team to receive calls after business hours.

Features and Specs

  • Unique, direct inward dial telephone numbers for each employee
  • Automatic routing for incoming and outgoing calls through a pooled trunk group
  • Available with switching vehicles served by trunk service (trunk side of the central office)
  • Answer supervision required from the customer's PBX

  • Seven-digit local exchange numbers assigned to each direct inward dialing station by PBX programming from a block of numbers reserved for the customer
  • The central office directs calls to a dedicated pool of one-way incoming analog direct inward dial trunks assigned to that number block
  • The central office outpulses the last three or four digits (depending on the customer's PBX requirements) to the PBX to route calls directly to the station