With OPTIONS Ping enabled, each Unified CM node running the trunk's SIP daemon periodically pings each destination and sends calls only to reachable destinations, instead of discovering failures per call through timeouts.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Unified Communications Manager
Subsystem
SIP trunk OPTIONS ping
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
stated in the 8.6(1) SME design guide; later releases not verified from a fetched document
Checked
2026-09-25

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP 503 and trunk out-of-service failures: source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable,
  title  = {SIP 503 and trunk out-of-service failures: source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable},
  note   = {Source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-calls-reachable, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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