Modifying Diversion Header on Sonus for Unscreened ANI

What is Unscreened ANI and how do you set it up on your Sonus SBC 1K/2K?

Unscreened ANI is a feature that some SIP providers have to enable you to use any phone number in the Line URI of a Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice user where the number does not get validated when it is sent accross the SIP trunk, the Diversion number however is validated to ensure that it is a valid number on the SIP Trunking provider network.

One of the main reasons for this feature is to allow you to migrate from your existing PBX telephony or setup a Microsoft Lync Enterprise voice proof of concept without having to port your phone number to the SIP trunk provider for making outbound calls. This way your phone number will show as the ANI when making external phone calls, eventhough the SIP provider doesn’t hold the phone number yet.

Inbound calls will still come in via your existing PBX and rerouted to Microsoft Lync, this will be covered in another blog post.

To utliize the unscreened ANI feature we will need to modify the diversion header on the outbound connection to your SIP provider, to do you will need the following:

Have the feature be available with your SIP provider and enabled
Have your SIP provider give you a phone number that is associated with your SIP trunk

Now lets set it up, first log into your Sonus SBC 1K/2K:

From the left hand menu select Transformation, Click the + to create a new Transformation rule.

Click Apply, -> Click on the newly created Transformation Rule and click + to add a new entry:

Description: Add an appropriate description for this rule

Admin State: Enabled (if you want to use this rule right away) otherwise you can disable it.

Match Type: Optional

Input Field

Type:Redirecting Number – (ie. Diversion Number)
Value:(.*) – (The input can be any value)

Output Field

Redirecting Number – (ie. Diversion Number)
Value: The phone number provided by your SIP provider in this example 6139991000

Click Ok to save

Now that we’ve created our rule we need to associate it to the outbound call routing table.

From the left hand menu Click Calling Routing Table and select the Entry for outbound dialing from Lync, click on the + to create a new entry.

Description: Add an appropriate description for this rule
Admin State: Enabled (if you want to use it right away)
Route Priority: 1
Call Priority: Normal
Number/Name Transformation Table: Modify Diversion Header (or the name you’ve created)
Destination Type: Normal
Message Translation Table: None
Cause Code Reroutes: None
Cancel others upon forwarding: Disabled
Destination Signaling Groups: Click Add and select your SIP provider signaling group
All the other entries may be left as default.
Click Ok