What is a Managed Zone?

A managed zone is a subset of a managed region, corresponding to an H.323 zone.

A managed zone consists of gateways and a set of routes.

The VRC feature set of a managed zone is set by VRC and is determined by the gateway with the lowest VRC feature set. The feature set of the zone is not established until a gateway is added to the zone.

VRC also recognizes unmanaged zones and remote zones.

A zone is considered local or remote in relation to the gatekeeper.

The following table describes parameters for a managed zone. Refer to the specific topic for more information.

Parameters

Description

Zone Prefixes

Specify the prefixes supported by the zone.

Route Scopes

Specify a group of origination or termination points for routes.

Zone Subnets

Used to configure a gatekeeper to accept discovery and registration messages sent by endpoints in designated subnets.

Server Triggers

Used  to configure a gatekeeper to connect to a specific back-end server.

Source Groups

Create a template for setting the same voice source group parameters on all gateways in a zone. The parameters set in a zone's source group are used when you add a voice source group to the gateway.

Ingress Routes

Define the pathway from ingress gateways to their address resolution authority (ARA).

Egress Routes

Represent the call path from the VoIP network to an egress gateway.

Translation Profiles

Provide a way to group all ANI and DNIS translation rules together for use on ingress and egress routes.

Rule Descriptions

Define sets of translation rules for a zone, making them available for assignment to translation profiles.

Zone Aliases

The name a gatekeeper assigns to a local zone name.

Hopoff Tech. Prefixes

A hopoff tech. prefix allows you to specify a technology prefix for a certain zone that you want to use as a hopoff zone.

Applications

Configure voice applications on a gateway.

DNIS Maps

Configure a set of E.164 numbers to map to VXML URLs under a single DNIS map instead of creating dial-peers for each DNIS.

Number Expansion Sets

Number expansion sets enable you to define a set of digits for the router to add to the beginning of a dialed string before passing it to the remote telephony device.