Cisco Systems SPA9000 manual Using Dial Plans, Configuring Dial Plans, Dial Plan Digit Sequences

Chapter 4 Configuring SPA9000 Features

Using Dial Plans

Using Dial Plans

This section describes the dial plan features of the SPA9000. It also explains how to configure and write scripts and provides a reference describing the use of each dial plan parameter. For information about dial plans for the Auto-Attendant, refer to Chapter 5, “Configuring the LVS Auto-Attendant.”

Configuring Dial Plans

The SPA9000 allows each line to be configured with a distinct dial plan. The dial plan specifies how to interpret digit sequences dialed by the user, and how to convert those sequences into an outbound dial string.

The SPA9000 syntax for the dial plan closely resembles the corresponding syntax specified by MGCP and MEGACO. Some extensions are added that are useful in an end-point.

Dial Plan Digit Sequences

The plans contain a series of digit sequences, separated by the character. The collection of sequences is enclosed in parentheses.

When a user dials a series of digits, each sequence in the dial plan is tested as a possible match. The matching sequences form a set of candidate digit sequences. As more digits are entered by the user, the set of candidates diminishes until only one or none are valid.

Any one of a set of terminating events triggers the SPA9000 to either accept the user-dialed sequence and transmit it to initiate a call, or else to reject it as invalid. The terminating events are as follows:

•No candidate sequences remain—The number is rejected.

•Only one candidate sequence remains, and it has been matched completely—The number is accepted and transmitted after any transformations indicated by the dial plan, unless the sequence is barred by the dial plan, in which case the number is rejected.

•A timeout occurs—The digit sequence is accepted and transmitted as dialed if incomplete, or transformed as per the dial plan if complete.

•An explicit “send” (user presses the # key)—The digit sequence is accepted and transmitted as dialed if incomplete, or transformed as according to the dial plan if complete.

The time-out duration depends on the matching state. If no candidate sequences are as yet complete (as dialed), the Interdigit_Long_Timeout applies. If a candidate sequence is complete, but there exists one or more incomplete candidates, then the <Interdigit_Short_Timeout> applies.

Table 4-1describes the entries to use when programming the dial plan.

Table 4-1 Dial Plan Entries

		Dial Plan Entry	Function
		*xx	Allows arbitrary 2-digit star code
[3469]11			Allows x11 sequences (for example, 311, 411, 611, 911)
0			Dials operator
00			Dials international operator
		[2-9]xxxxxx	Dials US local number
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