[OpenSIPS-Users] Multiple Area Codes in Customer Area

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi there,

When you have to deal with local dialling you need consider the amount 
of information yon need to keep in order to translate to national format 
and the complexity of the processing you have to do.

A compromise solution will be to keep in user profile some information 
about the location (like for US, the 2 digits Id of the state) - this 
will reduce the amount of data you need to keep per user. Also, this 
info can be loaded at auth time, using "load_credentials" parameter 
(just an example).

Now, using the location information, you can use dialplan to do the 
actual transformation. Like, if location is NJ (use a separate plan):
    if 7 digits -> put 011-201 prefix
    if  10 digits -> put 011 prefix

And so on...

This works pretty fine and scale (not for local dialling but for 
national dialling in international platforms).

Regards,
Bogdan

osiris123d wrote:
> I was curious to see how people configure OpenSIPS when their customers could
> potentially be in different area codes.  I am located in the US.  Say I have
> customers that are in the following area codes
>
> 201-XXX-XXXX    <- New Jersey
> 339-XXX-XXXX    <- Boston
>
> Initially when I was setting up users I configured the username to be just
> like the persons email address (ex. bobsmith at xyz.com), and configured an
> alias that included the DID for that person (ex. 2011XXXXX1 at xyz.com).
>
> So when bobsmith in New Jersey calls someone and just types 7 digits then
> obviously its local.  How do people out there using OpenSIPS usually
> determine if the call is local or not?  I was thinking that I need to swap
> my username and alias around so that the username is the 10 digit DID and
> then I can look at the first 3 digits to see what the area code is.  My
> other idea was to set up Groups for each area code and add the users to
> their Area Code group and determine it that way.
>
> Am I looking at this the right way or am I making this more complicated?  I
> would like to get my setup right the first time so that this config scales
> well.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>