Dial Plans - Cisco IE-3000-8TC Administration Manual

Common Configuration Concepts in Cisco Business Edition 3000

Dial Plans

Your Cisco Business Edition 3000 Dial Plan allows you to allocate phone numbers and translation rules for
your system. You can choose the country where you are installing the Cisco Business Edition 3000. The Cisco
Business Edition 3000 installs a Dial Plan based on the regulations in your country.
Cisco Business Edition 3000 supports a local gateway in every site and multiple gateways in any site; therefore
the installation of Dial Plan is required.
For load balancing and backup purposes, the routing is set up such that if a local gateway is not available, the
calls can be routed to the gateway on the other site.
Prior to Release 8.6.3, dial plans were configured during First Time Setup by selecting the appropriate country
pack. For other countries, the dial plans were configured through an upgrade using the country pack during
the First Time Setup. The dial plan configured for a particular country is dependent on the classes of services
available for that country. There was no scope to change or enhance the dial plan. The patterns were noneditable,
and administrators had to contact the Cisco TAC for assistance. To change the dial plan, the dial plan in the
Cisco Business Edition 3000 had to be upgraded using an updated country pack that replaced the old dial plan
with the new dial plan.
With Release 8.6.4, Cisco Business Edition 3000 automatically assigns the default dial plan based on the
country that you choose during First Time Setup. The default dial plan supports various classes of services
based on the country pack you have installed on the system. You can switch to another default dial plan by
installing another country pack. Cisco Business Edition 3000 uses an enhanced IDP file to generate dial plan
patterns.
In addition, Cisco Business Edition 3000 Administrative Interface provisions the configuration of customized
dial plan patterns. Administrators can add, edit, and delete dial plan patterns depending on their requirements.
Dial plan patterns are organized based on the class of service offered by Cisco Business Edition 3000.
Cisco Business Edition 3000 is provisioned with explicit dial plan patterns, which comprise the configuration
of:
• translation patterns
• call routing patterns
• called party transformation patterns
• calling party transformation patterns
• application dial rules
• SPA dial rules
• CDR rules
From Release 8.6.4, Cisco Business Edition 3000 supports multiple outside dial codes for different sites. You
can enter a maximum of 5 outside dial codes separated with a comma. Connection groups allow you to route
different PSTN calls based on the class of service and the outside dial code. To extend this routing capability,
Cisco Business Edition 3000 allows you to configure multiple outside dial codes for your dial plan. You can
configure multiple outside dial code and connection groups using the Cisco Business Edition 3000
Administrative Interface.
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