Configure an Inbound Route with your Preferred PoP

At Flowroute, you have the ability to manage inbound voice routing on a per-route basis. For example, if you select US-West-OR as your Edge Strategy for a given Inbound Route, origination calls will be attempted first from US-West-OR servers. If those fail, then origination attempts will be made from the other points of presence.

Configuring inbound route

1. Log in to your Flowroute account

2. Select the Interconnection option from the left sidebar menu

3. Go to the Inbound Routes tab

4. Populate Add new Route form:

   1. Set the Route Alias which is just a name for the route that’s easy to remember or identify.

   2. Select your route type. Note that Edge strategy only applies to route types Host and URI.    

   3. Enter your route value following the example format.

   4. Update Edge strategy with your preferred value.  

5. Click on Add Route to apply the changes. Your route should appear in the list below.

Apply Inbound route to DID(s)

Next, you can apply inbound route to your DID(s) on the DID Manage page.

Examples

• Host routes

  • sip:yourdomain.com

  • 123.1.1.321:5060

  • yourdomain.com;transport=tls

  • 123.1.1.321:5060;weight=300

• URI routes

  • sip:alice@atlanta.com

  • sip:bob@8.4.3.13:7193;transport=tcp

  • sip:dave@atlanta.com;transport=tls

  • sip:otherbob@atlanta.com;transport=tcp;weight=100

Weighted Routing

Percentage-based traffic distribution is supported when both a primary and failover route include the weight parameter.

NOTE: When only one of the two routes or neither of them contain a weight, traditional primary/failover behavior occurs.

To add a weight, simply append the weight parameter to the route with a value between 0 and 1000. When both values are present, the percentage of traffic sent to one route will be the weight over the sum of both weights.

  my_route1;weight=200 -> 200 / (200+300) -> 40%

  my_route2;weight=300 -> 300 / (200+300) -> 60%

PoP options

IMPORTANT: Please refer to Manage portal for the up-to-date selection of PoPs