Dial Plan File; Creating A Dial Plan File; External Dial Plan File - AudioCodes Mediant 1000B User Manual

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36.1.5 Dial Plan File

The Dial Plan file can be used for various digit mapping features, as described in this
section.

36.1.5.1 Creating a Dial Plan File

The Dial Plan file is a text-based file that can contain up to 8 Dial Plans (Dial Plan indices)
and up to 8,000 rules (lines). The general syntax rules for the Dial Plan file are as follows
(syntax specific to the feature is described in the respective section):
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Each Dial Plan index must begin with a Dial Plan name enclosed in square brackets
"[...]" on a new line.
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Each line under the Dial Plan index defines a rule.
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Empty lines are ignored.
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Lines beginning with a semicolon ";" are ignored. The semicolon can be used for
comments.
Creating a Dial Plan file is similar for all Dial Plan features. The main difference is the
syntax used in the Dial Plan file and the method for selecting the Dial Plan index.
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To create a Dial Plan file:
1. Create a new file using a text-based editor (such as Notepad) and configure your Dial
Plans, as required.
2. Save the file with the ini file extension name (e.g., mydialplanfile.ini).
3. Convert the ini file to a dat binary file, using AudioCodes DConvert utility. For more
information, refer to DConvert Utility User's Guide.
4. Load the converted file to the device, as described in ''Loading Auxiliary Files'' on
page 575.
5. Select the Dial Plan index that you want to use. This depends on the feature and is
described in the respective section.

36.1.5.2 External Dial Plan File

The device enables you to configure multiple dialing plans in an external Dial Plan file,
which can be installed on the device. If a Dial Plan file is implemented, the device first
attempts to locate a matching digit pattern in a specified Dial Plan index listed in the file
and if not found, attempts to locate a matching digit pattern in the Digit Map. The Digit Map
is configured by the 'Digit Mapping Rules' parameter, located in the DTMF & Dialing page
(Configuration tab > VoIP menu > GW and IP to IP > DTMF and Supplementary >
DTMF & Dialing).
The Dial Plan is used for the following:
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ISDN Overlap Dialing, FXS, and FXO collecting digit mode (Tel-to-IP calls): The file
allows the device to know when digit collection ends, after which it starts sending all
the collected (or dialed) digits in the outgoing INVITE message. This also provides
enhanced digit mapping.
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CAS E1 MF-CR2 (Tel-to-IP calls): Useful for E1 MF-CR2 variants that do not support
I-15 terminating digits (e.g., in Brazil and Mexico). The Dial Plan file allows the device
to detect end-of-dialing in such cases. The CasTrunkDialPlanName_x ini file
parameter determines which dial plan (in the Dial Plan file) to use for a specific trunk.
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