CounterPath Bria 2.5 Windows User Guide - Manual (Page 84)

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B Dial Plan
When a call attempt is made, the call input (what you type, select or drag onto the call entry field) is compared
to the dial plans that exist in order to select the SIP account to use and in order to determine if the input must be
modified to ensure that the call can succeed. Each dial plan contains one or more patterns; if the input matches a
particular pattern, then the input is modified according to the rules for that pattern, and then the call is placed
using the account that the dial plan belongs to.
Determining whether You Need a Dial Plan
If you are an independent user of Bria, you may need to modify the default dialing plan.
If you are deploying Bria in an enterprise, you will typically need to modify the default dialing plan.
1. Check with your VoIP service provider for any dialing plan information. If you service provider has a
dialing plan, use it. If you have several SIP accounts, each with a different service provider, obtain the
dialing plan for each account. Enter the dialing plan in the account information, page 68.
2. If no ready-made dialing plan is available for an account, enable only that account and make different types
of phone calls:
• Calls to another SIP address (rather than to the PSTN).
• Local calls to the PSTN (if your VoIP service provider supports these calls)
• Long-distance calls to the PSTN (if your VoIP service provider supports these calls).
Try placing calls by typing in the entry field and also by selecting a contact.
3. If all types of calls succeed, the default dialing plan does not need to be modified for that account.
If at least one type of call fails, you must modify the default dialing plan for that account.
The Default Dial Plan
The default dial plan is:
#n\a\a.T;match=1;prestrip=2;
where #n is the account prefix (#1 for the first account in the list (proxy0), #2 for the second account (proxy1),
and so on).
If the input is the account prefix and the number, then the Account for this dial plan is selected. The account
prefixed is stripped from the number before the call is placed.
If all Accounts use this dial plan, then the behavior is as follows: if the input includes the account, then that
account is used. In other words, you can force selection of a specific account by including the account prefix. If
the input does not include #n, then the default account is used.