What is an Ingress Route?

An ingress route defines an internal zone behavior on the ingress side of the call, when the call is received from the PSTN.

An ingress route specifies the address resolution authority (ARA) that is used to resolve the call destination (for example, the order might be: gatekeeper, OSP Server, and hairpinning back to the PSTN), and all required number translations.)

An ingress route also encapsulates non-dial plan parameters such as direct inward dial (DID), applications, and codec.

When you configure an ingress route on a Cisco gateway, VRC generates dial peers based on the dial peer type attribute for the ingress route. If the dial peer type is: