CHAPTER37 Advanced SBC Features
Mediant 1000 Gateway & E-SBC | User's Manual
The feature is supported by configuring a primary extension and associating it with secondary
extensions (i.e., shared lines) so that incoming calls to the primary extension also ring at the
secondary extensions. The call is established with the first extension to answer the call and
consequently, the ringing at the other extensions stop. For example, assume primary extension
number 600 is shared with secondary extensions 601 and 602. In the case of an incoming call to
600, all three phone extensions ring simultaneously, using the device's call forking feature as
described in Configuring SIP Forking Initiated by SIP Proxy. Note that incoming calls specific to
extensions 601 or 602 ring only at these specific extensions.
To configure this capability, you need to configure a shared-line, inbound manipulation rule for
registration requests to change the destination number of the secondary extension numbers (e.g.
601 and 602) to the primary extension (e.g., 600). Call forking must also be enabled. The following
procedure describes the main configuration required.
● The device enables outgoing calls from all equipment that share the same line
simultaneously (usually only one simultaneous call is allowed per a specific shared
line).
● You can configure whether REGISTER messages from secondary lines are
terminated on the device or forwarded transparently (as is), using the
SBCSharedLineRegMode parameter.
● The LED indicator of a shared line may display the wrong current state.
➢ To configure BroadSoft's Shared Line feature:
1. In the IP Groups table (see Configuring IP Groups), add a Server-type IP Group for the
BroadWorks server.
2. In the IP Groups table, add a User-type IP Group for the IP phone users and set the 'SBC
Client Forking Mode' parameter to Parallel so that the device forks incoming calls to all
contacts under the same AOR registered in the device's registration database.
3. In the IP-to-IP Routing table (see Configuring SBC IP-to-IP Routing Rules), add a rule for
routing calls between the above configured IP Groups.
4. In the Inbound Manipulations table (see Configuring IP-to-IP Inbound Manipulations), add a
manipulation rule for the secondary extensions (e.g., 601 and 602) so that they also register to
the device's database under the primary extension contact (e.g., 600):
● 'Manipulation Purpose': Shared Line
● Match:
◆ 'Request Type': REGISTER
◆ 'Source IP Group': IP Group that you created for the users (e.g., 2)
◆ 'Source Username Pattern': Represents the secondary extensions, e.g., 601 and 602
● Action:
◆ 'Manipulated URI': Source (manipulates the source URI)
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