SARK UCS/MVP Route

About Routes.

SARK UCS/MVP _ Routes Panel is the place where Route entities are declared. A route is a defined set of pathways which will carry a particular class of telephone number. For example you might declare a route called _LOCAL which is sensitive to short, local-exchange numbers and it will define a pathway for these numbers using PSTN lines. You might declare another route called NATIONAL which defines how national calls are to be carried and over which trunks. You might declare a route called USA which defines those carriers who can recognise a US domestic number and so on. Routes give you a great deal of flexibility in the way that you classify and handle different types of outbound call.

Routes are also used to distribute extension groups across multiple servers. A special carrier type; Sibling, can be used to define IAX or SIP trunks which carry traffic between servers. In this way you can have, for example, extensions 5000-5019 on server A, extensions 5020-5039 on server B and extensions 5040-5059 on server C. The extensions on each server can, in turn, use routes which share the available bandwidth of the whole server group for VOIP, Analogue, conferencing and mail facilities. For example all your conference rooms may exist on server A while all of your VOIP carriers are known only to server B. Individual users neither know nor care where these services are, they simply use them. Call forward instructions also operate happily across servers as do vmail and e-mail services (with some restrictions - see the section on distributed Vmail in the Headers Topic).