This feature identifies and classifies numbers dialled in the North American numbering plan (NANP).

Details

Feature name

NorthAmericanNumberingPlan

Applicable contexts

SIP service

SAS Support

Yes

Prerequisite features

VerticalServiceCode

Session State inputs and outputs

Inputs

Name Type Description Behaviour if null/invalid

AnalysedDialledNumber

com.opencloud.sentinel.numbers.TaggedNumber

Has analysis of the dialled number.

Feature ends immediately.

AnalysedHomeCountryCode

String

The home country dialling code for the network.

Feature will be unable to identify a NANP number dialled without the country code.

SentinelSelectionKey

com.opencloud.sentinel.common.SentinelSelectionKey

For selecting area code configuration data.

Feature will be unable to get geographic information from the area code of a NANP number.

Outputs

Name Type Description

NANPNumberInfo

com.opencloud.sentinel.numbers.NANPNumberInfo

Contains the results of the feature’s analysis.

Behaviour

The NANP feature analyses the number dialled by the calling party, and has three tasks while doing so:

  1. Determine if the number is in the North American numbering plan.

  2. If so, identify the format of the number (i.e. 7 digit, 10 digit, or 1+10 digit).

  3. Extract the NANP area code for the number (if it is present) and retrieve geographic information for it.

In order to determine if the number is part of the North American numbering plan, the feature examines the analysed version of the dialled number as provided by the Vertical Service Code feature in the AnalysedDialledNumber session state field. The number will be considered part of the NANP if it meets any one of the following three criteria:

  • It was dialled with the network’s international escape code, and has 1 as the country code.

  • It was dialled in international format (i.e. starting with a + character), and has 1 as the country code.

  • The number does not have a country code, and the home network county code is 1.

If the number is in the NANP, the feature will move on to identify its format. For the purpose of checking number lengths in this stage in the analysis, any vertical service codes in the dialled number will be skipped over. Formats are classified in the following ways:

  • For numbers in international format or with an international escape code, the number is checked to make sure there are 10 digits after the country code. If so the format is classified as 10 digit, and if not the format is left unclassified.

  • For numbers that start with the national dialling prefix the same check is applied for the length of the number after the prefix. However, when the national prefix is 1 and there are 10 digits after the prefix, the number will be classified as 1+10 digit format rather than 10 digit.

  • For numbers lacking national or international prefixes, the length of the whole number is checked and if its seven or ten digits it will be classified accordingly. For other lengths, the number is left unclassified.

If the number was classified as 10 digit or 1+10 digit, the feature will extract the area code from the number. This area code will be looked up in the NorthAmericanNumberingPlanAreaCodes profile table, which has geographic information for each area code.

The feature will output the results of its analysis to the NANPNumberInfo session state field. This session state field contains a data structure with the following fields:

Field Name Description

Number

The part of the originally dialled number that is actually in the NANP (i.e. without service codes, dial prefixes, country codes etc.).

Format

The format of the number, one of: 7-Digit, 10-Digit, 1+10-Digit, or Unknown.

Area Code

The area code that was extracted from the number.

Country Name

The full name of the country that the area code is in.

ISO Country code

The two-letter ISO standard country code for the country that the area code is in.

Location

A more specific description of the location the area code is in. For the US, this will be the two-letter code for the state/territory. For Canada, this will be the full name of the province/territory. For other countries, this will be the same as the Country Name.

If no area code or geographic information was found, those fields will be empty. If no dialled number was found, or the dialled number was not in the NANP, then the entire session state field will be left null.

Relationship with number translation features

The NANP feature analyses the dialled number as it was originally received by Sentinel.

This means that if a number translation feature such as Location Based Dialling or SIP Short Code modifies the number and the resulting number is part of the NANP, it will not be analysed by the NANP feature.

Classification Examples

Number Format Area Code Notes

+14255550000

10 Digit

425

  • The number starts with the NANP country code (+1), which is excluded from the number when identifying the format.

  • This number would be identified as a NANP number regardless of what country it was dialled from.

18795550000

1+10 Digit

879

  • The number starts with the NANP national prefix (1), which is included in the number when identifying the format.

  • This number would only be identified as a NANP number if dialled from within the NANP.

7415550000

10 Digit

741

  • This number would only be identified as a NANP number if dialled from within the NANP.

5550000

7 Digit

None

  • No geographic information would be retrieved as it does not have an area code.

  • This number would only be identified as a NANP number if dialled from within the NANP.

Error scenarios

Scenario Handling

VSC feature number analysis not available

Record stat, report to SAS, and end feature normally.

Configuration

This feature’s behaviour is not configurable, however geographic data for the NANP area codes is. This data is stored in the NorthAmericanNumberingPlanAreaCodes profile table. The table is pre-populated with area code information from the North American Numbering Plan Authority, and is updated with each major release of Sentinel. Each profile on the table is scoped by Sentinel Selection Key and corresponds to a single area code.

Each profile has the following fields:

Field Name Type Description

Area Code

String

The area code.

Country Name

String

The full name of the country that the area code is in.

ISO Country code

String

The two-letter ISO standard country code (in upper case) for the country that the area code is in.

Location

String

A more specific description of the location the area code is in. For the US, this will be the two-letter code for the state/territory. For Canada, this will be the full name of the province/territory. For other countries, this will be the same as the Country Name.

Profile example:

Profile Name

Metaswitch:::::415

Area Code

415

Country Name

United States

ISO Country code

US

Location

CA

Provisioning interfaces

Area code data can be provisioned using the Sentinel web interface.

Statistics

NANP feature statistics are tracked by the sentinel.sip SBB and can be found under the following parameter set in REM: SLEE-Usage → sentinel.sip service → sentinel.sip SBB → feature → NorthAmericanNumberingPlan or with rhino-stats: "SLEE-Usage.Services.ServiceID[name=sentinel.sip,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].SbbID[name=sentinel.sip,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].feature.NorthAmericanNumberingPlan"

Name Type Description 
Started

Counter

Incremented when the feature is triggered.

 
FailedToStart

Counter

Incremented when the feature fails to start.

 
FailedDuringExecution

Counter

Incremented when the feature fails while executing.

 
IssuedWarning

Counter

Incremented when the feature issues a warning.

 
TimedOut

Counter

Incremented when the feature times out during execution.

 
DialledNumberNotFound

Counter

Incremented when the dialled number analysis from the Vertical Service Code feature is not available in session state.

 
DialledNumberOutsideNANP

Counter

Incremented when the dialled number is not within the NANP.

 
DialledNumberInsideNANP

Counter

Incremented when the dialled number is within the NANP.

 
AreaCodeNotFound

Counter

Incremented when the dialled number is withn the NANP, but does not have an area code.

 
FoundAreaCodeInfo

Counter

Incremented when the geographic information for the area code is found.

 
AreaCodeInfoNotFound

Counter

Incremented when no geographic information is found for an area code.
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