Routing management allows you to manage all the configurations associated with routing calls based on the carriers' business requirements.
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, select Configuration > System Provisioning > Category: Call Routing > Routing. The Routing window displays. Click the Routes button.
System Provisioning - Routing
The Routing screen is comprised of the following sections:
- A toggle menu displays on the left side of the screen with the option to view/edit either Routes (default) or Routing labels.
- The main workspace displays a search section and a table section which lists route information based on the selection from the toggle menu.
- A Toolkiit workspace on the lower part of the screen containing chiclets used to launch the Routing tools.
If you exit a tool without saving, your changes are not saved.
See the following sections on this page to provision routing labels, routing label routes and routes:
Route
Use this tool to create a routing label route.
- From the Toolkit section, launch the Create Route chiclet .
- Enter/select desired configuration details.
- Click Save.
System Provisioning - Routing Create Route Tool
Standard Routing Type:
Field/Control | Description |
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Route Type | Select route type from drop-down menu. |
Routing Type | "Standard" |
Destination National | Enter the destination national number. |
Destination Country | Select the destination country from the drop-down menu. |
SIP Domain | Select the SIP domain from the drop-down menu. |
Routing Label | Select the routing label to associate with this route. |
Call Parameter Filter Profile | Select the call parameter filter profile to associate with this route. |
Time Range Profile | Select the time range profile to associate with this route. |
All Call Types | Select this option to include all call types. |
All Digit Types | Select this option to include all digit types. |
User Name Routing Type:
Field/Control | Description |
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Route Type | Select route type from drop-down menu. |
Routing Type | "User Name" |
User Name | Enter desired User Name. |
SIP Domain | Select the SIP domain from the drop-down menu. |
Routing Label | Select the routing label to associate with this route. |
Call Parameter Filter Profile | Select the call parameter filter profile to associate with this route. |
Time Range Profile | Select the time range profile to associate with this route. |
Call Types | Select this option to include all call types. |
Digit Types | Select this option to include all digit types. |
Relay Routing Type:
Field/Control | Description |
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Route Type | Select route type from drop-down menu. |
Routing Type | "Relay" |
Destination Country | Select the destination country from the drop-down menu. |
Relay Port | Select the relay port from the drop-down menu. |
SIP Domain | Select the SIP domain from the drop-down menu. |
Routing Label | Select the routing label to associate with this route. |
Call Parameter Filter Profile | Select the call parameter filter profile to associate with this route. |
Time Range Profile | Select the time range profile to associate with this route. |
Call Types | Select this option to include call types. |
Digit Types | Select this option to include digit types. |
Use this tool to select, and then edit a route.
- Select Routes from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace:
- Use the routes search section to locate a routing label.
- Select route from the table.
- Launch the Edit Route chiclet .
- Edit configuration details.
- Click Save.
Route search:
Edit Route:
Delete a Route
To delete a route, do the following.
- Select Routes from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace, use the routes search section to locate a routing label.
- Select route from the table, and click the Delete icon.
- When prompted for confirmation, click Yes to delete the route.
Routing Label
Use this tool to create a routing label.
- From the Toolkit section, click the Create Routing Label chiclet to launch the tool.
- Enter/select desired configuration details.
- Click Save.
System Provisioning - Routing Create window
Field/Control | Description |
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ID (Name) | Routing Label name |
Action | Options: |
Prioritization Type | Options: - Sequence
- Proportion Allocation
- Round-Robin
- All Proportion Allocation
- Least Cost Routing
|
Overflow Number | Enter overflow number, if desired. |
Overflow Nature of Address | Select from drop-down menu. |
Overflow Numbering Plan Indicator | Options: |
Use this tool to select, and then edit a routing label.
- Select Routing Labels from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace:
- Use the routing label search section to locate a routing label.
- Select routing label from the table.
- From the Toolkit section, click the Edit Routing Label chiclet to launch the tool.
- Edit configuration details.
- Click Save.
Routing Label Search:
Edit Routing Label:
Delete a Routing Label
To delete a routing label and its associated routing label routes, do the following.
- Select Routing Labels from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace, use the routing label search section to locate a routing label.
- Select routing label from the table.
- From the Action column, click the Delete icon.
- When prompted for confirmation, click Yes to delete the routing label
You cannot delete a routing label that is associated with a route. Point the route to another routing label before attempting to delete the routing label.
Routing Label Search:
Delete confirmation:
Routing Label Route
Use this tool to create a routing label route.
- From the Toolkit section, click the Create Routing Label Route chiclet to launch the tool.
- Enter/select desired configuration details.
- Click Save.
Create Routing Label Route Tool
When Trunk Group
is selected as the option for Route Type, all the Trunk Group related fields are displayed.
When IP Peer
is selected as the option for Route Type, the Trunk Group related fields are hidden and the field, "Zone for TG and IP Peer
" is changed to "Zone for IP Peer
". This enhancement allows you to create Routing Label Routes with just an IP Peer as an option.
Field/Control | Description |
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Route Type
| Select the route type associated with this routing label route. Trunk Group (default): When Trunk Group is selected as the option for Route Type, all the Trunk Group related fields are displayed.IP Peer : When IP Peer is selected as the option for Route Type, the Trunk Group related fields are hidden and the field, "Zone for TG and IP Peer " is changed to "Zone for IP Peer ". This enhancement allows you to create Routing Label Routes with just an IP Peer as an option.
|
Zone for TG and IP Peer | Select the Zone associated with the Trunk Group and IP Peer. |
Trunk Group
| Choose a trunk group to associate with this routing label route from the drop-down menu. |
IP Peer
| Select the IP Peer from the drop-down menu. |
Cost
| Enter the relative cost of this route to the carrier. |
Proportion
| Enter a value that specifies the proportion of calls where this route should be the first route choice. If three routes are assigned to this Routing Label with proportions 80, 70, 50, the SBC returns the route assigned the proportion of 80 as the first route 40% of the time (80/ 200). The total can be any whole number. |
Testing
| Select the desired mode for making test calls: Normal - After testing and verifying a route, select this option to use the route for live calls. When selected, the SBC returns the route regardless of the calling party category (CPC) value, or absence of a CPC value, received in the policy request. (Default setting). Test - When the CPC value in a policy request is Test Call, the SBC returns the route. When the CPC value is not Test Call or is not present in the policy request, the SBC does not return the route. Non-Test - When the CPC value in a policy request is Test Call, the SBC does not return the route. When the CPC value is not Test Call or is not present in the policy request, the SBC returns the route. Select this option for routes not to be returned during testing.
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In Service
| Select to indicate route is available for routing. |
- If the number representing the chosen Trunk Group matches with the code of any of the nations, the SBC assigns the corresponding nation's name to the Trunk Group.
- After 20 entries are configured in the same Zone under Trunk Group (TG) or IP Peer, the drop-down list adjacent to the TG field disappears. The drop-down list is replaced by a new search panel.
See New Search Panel for an illustrative image.
New Search Panel - Illustrative Image
Use this tool to select, and then edit a routing label route.
- Select Routing Labels from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace:
- Use the routing label search section to locate a routing label.
- Select routing label from the table.
- Click either the Create Routing Label or Edit Routing Label chiclet or choose the same options using in the Routing Label Routes panel to launch the respective tool.
- Choose a routing label route from the list.
- Click the Edit Routing Label chiclet to launch the tool.
- Edit configuration details.
- Click Save.
Edit Routing Label Route Tool
Delete a Routing Label Route
To delete a routing label route, do the following.
- Select Routing Labels from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace:
- Use the routing label search section to locate a routing label.
- Select routing label from the table.
- Click the Edit Routing Label chiclet to launch the tool.
- Choose a routing label route from the table.
- In the Action column, click the Delete icon.
- When prompted for confirmation, click Yes to delete the routing label route.
Delete Routing Label Route
Routing Label Route Sequence
Use this tool to select, and then edit a routing label route sequence.
- Select Routing Labels from the toggle menu.
- From the main workspace, do one or both:
- Use the routing label search section to locate a routing label.
- Select routing label from the table.
- Click either the Create Routing Label or Edit Routing Label chiclet or choose the same options using in the Routing Label Routes panel to launch the respective tool.
- Choose a routing label route from the list.
- Click the Edit Routing Label chiclet to launch the tool.
- Click and drag the routing label route(s) to their preferred order.
- Click Save.
Edit Routing Label Route Sequence Tool
Original order:
Rearranged order:
New order: