User guide

Chapter 5 — Phonebook Configuration
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Add/Edit Outbound Phone Book
Add/Edit screen
Enter Outbound Phone Book data for your MultiVOIP unit. Note that the Advanced button gives access to the
Alternate IP Routing feature, if needed. Alternate IP Routing can be implemented in a secondary screen (as
described after the primary screen field definitions below).
Field Name
Values
Description
Accept Any
Number
Y/N
When checked, “Any Number” appears as the value in the Destination Pattern field.
How Any Number works depends on whether or not an external routing device is used.
When no external routing device is used. If Any Number is selected, calls to phone
numbers that don’t match a listed Destination Pattern are directed to the IP Address in
the Add/Edit Outbound Phone Book screen. Any Number can be used in addition to
one or more Destination Patterns.
When external routing device is used. If Any Number is selected, calls to phone
numbers that don’t match a listed Destination Pattern are directed to the external
routing device used (Gatekeeper for H323 protocol, Proxy for SIP protocol, Registrar for
SPP protocol). The IP Address of the external routing device must be set in the Phone
Book Configuration screen.
Destination
Pattern
prefixes, area
codes, exchanges,
line numbers,
extensions
Defines the beginning of dialing sequences for calls that will be connected to another
VOIP in the system. Numbers beginning with these sequences are diverted from the
PSTN and carried on Internet or other IP network.