Quick Start Guide
Introduction
What is Perimeter and what does it do?
Perimeter/ECO enables carriers and enterprises to optimize global voice networks while leveraging machine learning technologies to automate the management and resiliency of global voice networks from a single dashboard. With the Perimeter platform, enterprises benefit from intelligent routing and no-touch management for improved operations, while enjoying significant cost reduction due to the ability to leverage wholesale telephony voice networks.
Users, Authentication & Login
After subscribing to Perimeter, you will receive an email containing credentials for a superuser account.
To log in, you will need to:
Access the subscriber URL provided in the email (e.g. https://yourcompany.peeredge.com/)
Provide the email address and password as specified in the email
Click on Sign In
The superuser is a master account and has admin permissions over all areas of the platform. Do not share those credentials with other members of your organization. Perimeter has the ability to create additional users whose permissions you can easily manage. You can learn how to create additional users in this section.
Quick-start Relationship Configuration
In this section, we will showcase the most simple configuration for enabling Perimeter to initialize traffic from your network. The walkthrough below will only include mandatory fields.
To start using Perimeter, you will need to define a relationship as follows:
With your mouse, hover over the Relationships button located at the top menu
Select Relationships from the drop-down menu
Click on Create in the Relationship Dashboard
Relationship Info Quick Config
Relationships > Create
Once you press on Create as outlined above, you will be redirected to the Relationship Info tab
Provide a Name for the Relationship
Press Save Changes at the bottom.
Additional Fields:
Relationship Contacts: These are the contact details for your customers and vendors to receive notifications. If you do not set up any Contacts, you will not be able to send balance sheets, rates, invoices or notifications. The types of Contacts are:
Billing: send Invoices
Balance: send balance sheets
Rate: send rates
NOC: send change notifications made to Trunk Groups
The Address Information section will be used to prepopulate fields in the invoice templates when generating invoices. If this section is left blank, you will not have an address featured on your invoices generated by Perimeter.
Origination | Vendor | An Origination-Vendor configuration will enable you to receive traffic whose origination point is a vendor (traffic originates at the Vendor and terminates at you). |
Origination | Customer | An Origination-Customer configuration will enable you to configure traffic whose origination point is a Vendor (traffic originates at the Vendor and terminates at the Customer). |
Termination-Vendor Configuration
With a Termination-Vendor Configuration, you are sending traffic to a vendor.
Trunk Group Quick Config
Relationships > Create > Trunk Group
Once you’ve saved the Relationship Info changes, the Trunk Group tab will become available at the top right of the page.
In the Trunk Group page, click on Create
Provide a name for the Trunk Group
Set Direction as ‘Termination’ and Relationship as ‘Vendor’
Under the Limit/Options section, complete the following:
Ports: Indicate the port limit for the trunk group
CPS: Indicate the cps limit for the trunk group. We suggest a 10 to 1 ratio.
Max Call Duration: It will default to 14,400 seconds if left empty (4 hours) please configure in seconds to accomodate your needs
PDD: It will default to 15 seconds if left empty, please configure the pdd necessary for your traffic
B-Timer: Offers the extension of PDD and is designed to work as a smaller subset timer to roll over to the next trunk or trunk group if no response is received from the vendor. B timer is activated when the INVITE is sent to the outgoing trunk and if no 100 Trying is received within allocated time it will expire and roll over to the next Trunk or Trunk Group if available.
B-timer value can be between 1-10 and must always be smaller than PDD value. Default value for B-timer is empty which means it will not be considered unless integer value between 1 to 10 is set for it.
Example: PDD is set to 10 seconds; B Timer is set to 5 seconds
Click on Create at the bottom right of the Trunk Group Basic Information section
In the Add Trunk section, create a new trunk by providing the following details:
OR
Registration - provide:
Username (can not be an email address)
Password
Protocol
Select the Protocol from the drop-down menu
You will need to give the Switch IP to your customers and vendors in order to run traffic through the trunk.
Click on Create at the bottom right of the Add Trunk section
After creating a new Trunk, press on the Back arrow at the top left of the page.
Rating Quick Config
Relationships > Create > Rating
Rating will determine the charging amount per unit of time for your network traffic depending on the location of the call. To do this, start by creating a Ratedeck.
Navigate to the Rating tab at the top right of the page and press on Create
Provide a name for the Ratedeck
Depending on your Location, do one of the following:
US & Canada:
Set Direction to ‘Termination’
Set Deck type to ‘Prefix Jurisdictional’
Set Relation to ‘Vendor
International:
Set Direction to ‘Termination’
Set Deck type to ‘Dialed’ for any non-US&CA or EEA country or ‘EEA’ for the European Economic Area
Set Relation to ‘Vendor’
Click on Create
After creating the Ratedeck, press on the Back button featured in the top left of the page.
Select the Ratedeck recently created by clicking on the list entry.
Press on Assign to Trunk Group
In the pop-up window, press on Add Trunk Group
Select a Trunk Group from the drop-down menu
Press on Assign
Importing a Rate sheet
When you upload a Rate sheet, you must align the headers from your .csv file to the headers provided in Perimeter:
Select an existing Ratedeck (by clicking on the list item in the second row) and click on Modify
Click on the Select File
Select your .csv file and click Open. A new section named Ratedeck Mapping will appear in Perimeter
The headers from your .csv file will appear in the drop down menus. You will need to assign a header to each of the drop-down menus.
After you finish mapping all the headers to the drop-down menus, click on Save & Upload
Congratulations on setting up a Termination Customer configuration!
You’ve successfully set up the minimum configuration for sending and receiving traffic through Perimeter.
Termination-Customer Configuration
In a Termination-Customer configuration, you are receiving traffic from your customer.
Trunk Group Quick Config
Relationships > Create > Trunk Group
Once you’ve saved the Relationship Info changes, the Trunk Group tab will become available at the top right of the page.
In the Trunk Group page, click on Create
Provide a name for the Trunk Group
Set Direction as ‘Termination’ and Relationship as ‘Customer’
Under the Limit/Options section, complete the following:
Ports: X
CPS: X/10
*where X is the number of Ports available
Max Call Duration: configure conforming for your needs
PDD: configure conforming for your need
Click on Create at the bottom right of the Trunk Group Basic Information section
In the Add Trunk section, create a new trunk by providing the following details:
IP address
Port (if you need to accept any port, please change to “1”)
Protocol
OR
Registration - provide:
Username
Password
Protocol
Select the Protocol from the drop-down menu
You will need to give the Switch IP to your customers and vendors in order to run traffic through the trunk.
Click on Create at the bottom right of the Add Trunk section
After creating a new Trunk, press on the Back arrow at the top left of the page.
Rating Quick Config
Relationships > Create > Rating
Rating will determine the charging amount per unit of time for your network traffic depending on the location of the call.
Navigate to the Rating tab at the top right of the page and press on Create
Provide a name for the Ratedeck
Depending on your Location, do one of the following:
US & Canada:
Set Direction to ‘Termination’
Set Deck type to ‘Prefix Jurisdictional’
Set Relation to ‘Customer’
International:
Set Direction to ‘Termination’
Set Deck type to ‘Dialed’ for any non-US&CA or EEA country or ‘EEA’ for the European Economic Area
Set Relation to ‘Vendor’
Click on Create
After creating the Ratedeck, press on the Back button featured in the top left of the page.
Select the Ratedeck recently created by clicking on the list entry.
Press on Assign to Trunk Group
In the pop-up window, press on Add Trunk Group
Select a Trunk Group from the drop-down menu
Press on Assign, and afterwards close the pop-up window
Navigate to Relationship > Modify Relationship > Rating > Modify Ratedeck
Press on Download Sample
Routing Quick Config
In the Routing tab, within the Termination section, click on Create
Provide a name for the Termination Routeplan
Select a type of Profit Protection
Click on Create
In the same tab, you will need to create a Routing Rule. Expand the Routing Rule menu and press on Build Rule
Provide a name for the Rule
Set the fields as follows:
Calls come from: Any
And is sent to: Any
With Meda IP: Any
Perform Action: [Choose one]
Select at least 1 vendor from the Vendors Considered list
Click on Add Rule
Navigate back to Relationships > Modify Relationship > Routing
Select the Termination Routeplan by clicking on the list entry
Press on Assign to Trunk Group
In the pop-up window, press on Add Trunk Group
Select a Trunk Group from the drop-down menu
Press on Assign
Congratulations on setting up a Termination Customer configuration!
You’ve successfully set up the minimum configuration for sending and receiving traffic through Perimeter.
Creating Additional Users
Navigate to Settings > General Settings
In the Subscriber Contacts Section, click on Create
Provide the username, contact email address and the account holder’s name
Select the contact type for the user. This will affect the permissions for the account holder:
Admin - note that this type will give the user full control over the platform, including creating new users.
Sales
Technical
Billing
NOC
Make sure you tick the box for Login Rights and make your selections - use this feature to limit user access on PE3
Press Create
Relationship Tabs Explained
While these tabs are not mandatory for setting up Perimeter to take traffic, they are useful from a business perspective. Here we will give a short description for each one:
Balance
The Balance tab allows you to send notifications to your customers and vendors with their usage and outstanding balance.
For any of these functionalities to work, you must have the following set up:
Balance Template
Warning Template
(A minimum of) one Balance Contact
1a. Creating Transactions
When creating a transaction the payment type determines if the amount will cause your running balance to increase or decrease.
For Example:
Starting Balance: $0.00
Resulting Current Balance: $10.00
Invoicing
Perimeter can auto-generate invoices and send them to customers.
To generate invoices, you will need the following:
Invoice Template
Invoice Contact
Portals
Portals enable your carriers (customers/vendors) to have access to the platform and send payments.
To give a new person access to a portal, you will need to:
Navigate to the Portals menu at the top right of the page
Click on Create
Provide:
Username
Email
Contact name
Phone number
Perimeter will send an email to the provided address containing login details. The portal will only display the information selected in the menu here.
Agents
Similar to the Portals Tab, in the Agents tab you can create a limited platform for Agents.
Navigate to Relationships > Agents
Click on Create
Through here, you can set up the following:
Trunk Group that the Agent has brought business to
Agent Name
Activation Date
Commision Type for the agent
Commission Rate for the agent
Status
Action
Logs
The Logs tab will automatically generate any changes done in Perimeter. The following information is stored:
Type
Title
Action
Modifier
Section
Created at
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