Using Dial Plan Tags For Matching Routing Rules - AudioCodes Mediant 4000 SBC User Manual

CHAPTER 20 SIP Definitions

Using Dial Plan Tags for Matching Routing Rules

For deployments requiring hundreds of routing rules (which may exceed the maximum number of
rules that can be configured in the IP-to-IP Routing table), you can employ tags to represent the
many different calling (source URI user name) and called (destination URI user name) prefix
numbers in your routing rules. Tags are typically implemented when you have users of many
different called and/or calling numbers that need to be routed to the same destination (e.g., IP
Group or IP address). In such a scenario, instead of configuring many routing rules to match all the
required prefix numbers, you need only to configure a single routing rule using the tag to represent
all the possible prefix numbers.
An example scenario where employing tags could be useful is in deployments where the device
needs to service calls in a geographical area that consists of hundreds of local area codes, where
each area code is serviced by one of two SIP Trunks in the network. In such a deployment, instead
of configuring hundreds of routing rules to represent each local area code, you can simply configure
two routing rules where each is assigned a unique tag representing a group of local area codes and
the destination IP Group associated with the SIP Trunk servicing them.
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To configure IP-to-IP routing based on tags:
1. In the Dial Plan table, configure a Dial Plan (see
Plan file below defines two tags, "LOC" and "INTL" to represent different called number
prefixes for local and long distance (International) calls:
2. For the IP Group or SRD associated with the calls for which you want to use tag-based routing,
assign the Dial Plan that you configured in Step 1.
● IP Groups table: 'Dial Plan' parameter (IPGroup_SBCDialPlanName) - see
Groups
● SRDs table: 'Dial Plan' parameter (SRD_SBCDialPlanName) - see
3. In the IP-to-IP Routing table (see
rule with the required destination and whose matching characteristics include the tag(s) that
you configured in your Dial Plan in Step 1. The tags are assigned under the Match group, using
the following parameters:
● 'Source Tags' parameter (IP2IPRouting_SrcTags): tag denoting the calling user
● 'Destination Tags' parameter (IP2IPRouting_DestTags): tag denoting the called user
Source and destination tags can be used in the same routing rule.
The same tag can be used for source and destination tags in the same routing rule.
Configuring Dial
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Plans). For example, the Dial
Configuring IP
Configuring SRDs
Rules), configure a routing