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Chapter 5 Dial Plan Architecture and Configuration
Special Dial String Considerations
On-Net Route Pattern
In a multisite IP WAN with distributed call processing, an abbreviation of the full
E.164 address is typically used for ease of dialing. For example, where an on-net
location has a number range of (408) 526-1000 through 1999, there may be only
a single route pattern with an entry of 61XXX. This simplifies user dialing and
requires only one route pattern entry where the Xs serve as wildcards.
To present the remote Cisco CallManager with the appropriate number of digits
for the internal dial plan, the Cisco CallManager route pattern can also strip or
prepend digits to the dialed number. In fact, the number of digits presented to a
remote Cisco CallManager for all calls across the IP WAN must match the dialed
digit length that the remote site uses for internal calls. The remote
Cisco CallManager simply looks at the digits and routes the call. There is no digit
manipulation for incoming calls.
If the IP WAN resources are insufficient in this environment and the call has to be
sent over PSTN, the route group for the PSTN gateway must insert the area code
and three-digit exchange. In earlier releases of Cisco CallManager, only one digit
manipulation table could be used for any given route pattern. Therefore, only
Cisco IOS gateways could be used because they could insert the area code and
three-digit exchange. This administrative burden has been removed in
Cisco CallManager Release 3.0, which now has the ability to perform unique digit
manipulations on a per-route-group basis. This allows for a single point of dial
plan administration per site and for use of both Cisco IOS gateways and gateways
based on the Skinny Gateway Protocol.
Figure 5-4 depicts on-net calls across the IP WAN with the PSTN as a backup,
where the digit manipulation required is different for each path.
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