1 Introduction
This chapter contains a brief description of the Numbering Plan Processor (NPP). The contents include sections about the manual scope, audience, and organization; how to find related publications; and how to contact Oracle for assistance.
Introduction
NPP provides a generic software process used to simplify provisioning of complex numbering plans and execution of digit string manipulation and formatting.
- Digit string filtering, to select or bypass processing of the string
- Digit string conditioning, to ensure that the string is in International format before Real Time Database RTDB lookup
- Digit string encodingformatting, using provisioned option values and any available results from the RTDB lookup
- A consistent and flexible interface for number string conditioning and formatting
- A flexible and precise interface for the execution of specific feature logic
- Simple corrective dialing
- Number conditioning
- Operator-specific code deletion and insertion
- Flexible arrangement of numbering plan tokens
Scope and Audience
Numbering Plan Processor (NPP) User's Guide is an introductory and conceptual document for the Numbering Plan Processor. Component definitions, fundamentals, key terms and phrases, and a basic working knowledge of NPP are provided.
This manual describes NPP functions, NPP operation, and commands used for NPP provisioning of criteria and software parameters. Some "examples" scenarios are provided for NPP provisioning and for validating the provisioning. Details of the use of NPP for specific features are described in the Feature Manual for each feature.
Audience
This overview document is intended for Oracle Communications EAGLE users who will benefit from an overall understanding of NPP and the concept of NPP relative to EAGLE features. Users of this document are expected to have a working knowledge of telecommunications in general, and EAGLE specifically.