Areas

It is possible to add information about source and destination areas to a call during routing. Areas are determined by performing an Area Prefixes database lookup based on the Source and Destination numbers.

Id

Unique identifier

Name

Unique area name.

Area prefixes

The Area Prefixes database is system-wide; currently, it is not possible to maintain multiple separate databases.

Id

Unique area prefix identifier.

Prefix

This field is used for lookup by Source or Destination number.

Area

The area associated to the Prefix above.

INFO

Results of area lookup are stored in the CDR as Src Area and Dst Area attributes.

Origin Based Billing use case

You can use areas simply to add additional information about the geographic location of source and destination numbers in the CDR. However, the main use case for this feature is Origin Based Billing, where call pricing and routing depend on source and destination areas. By adding Routing Tag detection rules, you can assign different Routing tags to calls based on Src/Dst area combinations and later apply different pricing and routing logic depending on the routing tag.

TIP

See the Using Routing tags guide for additional details about Routing tags.

See the Routing Quick Start guide for an example of Origin Based Billing configuration.