LTRT-00616 MediaPack Series Release Notes Ver 4.2 GA
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1. What s New in this Release configurable interval 1 7 MEGACO New Features 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Version 4 2 The following MEGACO H 248 package was added in this version e FXO Package fxo The retransmission mechanism timers can be configured by the following ini file parameters e MGCPRetransmissionTimeout or MGCPRetransmitionTimeout Defines the initial value in milliseconds for re sending a transaction if answer did not arrive e MGCPCommunicationLayerTimeout Defines the expiration time in seconds for the whole retransmission session If this time expires the MEGACO enters a disconnection mode New ini file parameter KeepAlivelnterval for setting the interval between two KeepAlive transactions The outgoing SDP can contain now the t s o lines which are mandatory in some none MEGACO applications This option is controlled by the existing ini file parameter MGCPCompatibilityProfile by adding to the current value 2 the number 8 So if you need the SDP to have these lines you should set the ini file parameter to 10 Support of T 38 was added through the SDP Refer to the User s manual for exact details The use of RFC 2833 can be negotiated via SDP Refer to the User s manual for more details The use of silence suppression can be negotiated via SDP Refer to the User s manual for more details A new parameter MEGACO_MID was added2. DISCONNECTED is introduced also supported in H 248 and MGCP 10 FarEndConnect detection This detection is being made by the FXO upon a polarity reversal Version 4 2 7 October 2003 a 1 3 1 4 T wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways event A new event is issued acEV FAR END CONNECTED 11 NTT CallerlID type one generation Relevant for the FXS only This feature enables the FXS to transmit the call originator s telephone number to the end point connected to the FXS 12 NTT CallerlD type one detection Relevant for the FXO only This feature enables the FXO to display the call originator s telephone number while the FXO is the terminator Host API New Features 13 The following new events were added acEV_FAR_END_CONNECTED acEV_FAR_END_DISCONNECTED acEV_ANALOG_IF_WINK_DETECTION acEV_ANALOG_IF_DETECT_METERING_TONE acEV_ANALOG_NTT_CALLER_ID_FAILED acEV_ANALOG_IF_CURRENT_DISCONNECT_DETECTED acEV_ANALOG_IF_LINE_DISCONNECTED acEV_ANALOG_IF_LINE_CONNECTED 14 The following new parameters definitions were added e acTDuslicDistinctiveRingParams was added to BoardParam gt AnalogIFFXSSettings 15 The version includes the following bug fix e A problem with acAnalog FGenerateDistinctiveRing was fixed 16 For additional changes which are not MP specific refer to AudioCodes IP Networking Related New Features 17 Improved NAT Two new NAT board parameters were introduced into the NAT feature E
3. is used lt Parameter gt lt Value gt e Channel Defaults new parameters added 70 The trap LineStatusChangeTrap is now enabled by default causing LineStatusChangeTrapEnableDefault to be obsolete 71 The following configuration files names are supported as read only FXS FXO Coefficients Call Progress Tones Voice Prompts 72 The field DSP Template Version is changed from Read only to Read Write 73 New field Enable SysLog 74 New Table SNMPManagers allowing online configuration of up to three Managers that will receive SNMP Traps 75 Community Strings for Get amp Set are configurable via Ini file parameter SetCommunityString The same string up to 20 characters is used for Set and for Get 76 New SNMP Traps e General Fatal Error e Configuration Error 77 Additional information is sent with each Trap Severity Probable cause Textual description and more 1 10 Miscellaneous New Features 78 Customer Key By using the new acSetCustomerKey acGetCustomerKey and acEV_CUSTOMER_KEY_RESPONSE APIs the User can burn a certain key on the board s flash and read it later This can be useful for example for customers who want to tag their boards with an encrypted key for commercial purposes 79 Reset Reason information at board start up This debug event is issued upon completion of board start up It informs the User of the type of reset that caused the board to restart 80 T
4. naaa nana n nana ann naaaaa FE 1 1 Hardware ea in 1 Release 4 2 orking Related New Features VoIP Engine New Features MGCP New Features 2 9 Miscellaneous Constraints 3 Recent Revision History SERRE RETR 19 3 1 i Pine Releases Version 4 2 5 October 2003 MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Reader s Notes Release Notes 6 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes What s New in this Release 1 What s New in Release 4 2 1 1 Hardware Supported in Release 4 2 1 This version supports the following MediaPack hardware platforms no change from previous release e MediaPack MP 124 FXS 24 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 108 FXS 8 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 108 FXO 8 analog FXO interfaces e MediaPack MP 104 FXS 4 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 104 FXO 4 analog FXO interfaces e MediaPack MP 102 FXS 2 analog FXS interfaces 1 2 Analog Interface New Features 2 MINIMUMFLASHHOOKTIME ini file parameter Relevant for FXS only Sets the minimal time in msec for detection of a flash hook event Flash hooks that last a shorter period are ignored 3 Polarity reversal detection Relevant only for FXO Polarity reversal is a reverse in the Tip Ring voltage Two consecutive polarity reversals within a time interval above 350 msec are detected each as a single reversal polarity An event acEV_ANALOG_IF_REVERSAL_POLARITY_DETECTED is issued for each detection 4 Wink detectio
5. otherwise the RTCP traffic is ignored RFC 2198 redundancy mode with RFC 2833 is not supported that is if a complete DTMF digit was lost it is not reconstructed The current RFC 2833 implementation does support redundancy for inter digit information lost With the channel parameters when using FaxTransportType TransparentWithEvents the Fax events parameters regarding the side of the fax call answering or calling and the number of pages are invalid When Continuity Test Tones COT and or Special Intercept Tones SIT detectors are enabled the number of Call Progress Tones that can be configured is reduced For more information refer to Section 2 4 20 Continuity Test Tones COT Support and Section 2 4 19 Special Information Tones in the AudioCodes VoPLib User s Manual Document LTRT 00844 A channel should NOT be reopened during IBS detection Such an action could cause the detector to send multiple events on same IBS input The resolution of the duration of digits On and Off time when dialing to the network using RFC 2833 relay is depending on the basic frame size of the coder being used Incoming CNG T 38 packets does not switch the channel to T 38 mode When CNG detector is NOT Transparent a CNG tone received from the TDM can t be detected using the Call Progress Tone detector Voice prompts storage space in the non volatile memory is limited and depends on the size of the stored software for details pleas
6. various standard control protocols 0 None 1 MGCP 2 MEGACO 3 Reserved New Global Persistent Events engine Allows Users to define additional persistent events other than the ones defined in RFC 2705 Persistent events can be provisioned via ini file using MGCPPERSISTENTEVENTS parameter New AudioCodes Proprietary extension x MAC Used for sending the board s MAC address during RSIP commands This new feature is enabled when ini file parameter MGCPSendMACWithRSIP is set to 1 An MGCP RSIP command can be used to remotely reset the device Prop Implementation of RSIP Transaction ID start value and range provisioning via ini file parameters TransactionIDBase and TransactionIDRange 3 1 8 MEGACO Support Following are the packages supported Users should refer to the User s Manual for details regarding each product Version 4 2 The TrunkPack series MEGACO client supports the basic set of packages as defined in Annex E of the RFC 3015 e Generic Media Package g e Base Root Package root e Tone Detection Package tonedet e Tone Generator Package tonegen e DTMF Generator Package dg e DTMF Detection Package dd e Call Progress Tones Generator Package cg e Call Progress Tones Detection Package cd 23 October 2003 a WH wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Previous Versions Analog Line Supervision Package al Basic Continuity Package ct Network Pack
7. 77 0492 International AudioCodes Ltd 4 HaHoresh Street PO Box 14 Yehud 56470 Israel Tel 972 3 539 4000 Fax 972 3 539 4040 China AudioCodes Ltd Room 2811 12 JingGuang Center HuJiaLou Chaoyang District Beijing 100020 P R China Tel 86 10 6597 4134 Fax 86 10 6597 4260 Japan S Building B1F 2 30 2 Chuou Nakano ku Tokyo 164 0011 Japan Tel Fax 81 3 5348 1405 Fax 81 3 5348 1405 rds Instizy oy Wo Y SW SI ISO 9002 jee aY N tp O 2 1z Assure Release Notes 26 Document LTRT 00616
8. F_FXO_STATUS acEV_ANALOG_IF_FXS_STATUS These two events are replacing the previous unified event acEV_ANALOG _IF_STATUS Addition of CallerlD to the distinctive ringing mechanism New parameters were added to acAnaloglFGenerateDistinctiveRing API function EnableCallerlDMessage and CallerlDMessage New acOpenRemoteBoard overloading With this new function the User can decide whether to supply the board parameters or not If board parameters are supplied non NULL value then both the VoPLib and the board use these parameters If the board parameters are not supplied then the VoPLib is configured automatically from the board New acGetlnfrastructuresParameter API function for obtaining various data from the board Currently the data that can be requested are the board parameters New parameter UserDialTiming was added to acPlayCallProgressTone acDial and acPlayVoicePrompt API functions This parameter determines the order of playing of the CPT digits and voice prompts when these functions are called one after the other Refer to the VoP manual for more details Add VoicePrompt on the fly It is now possible to use acAddVoicePrompt when channels are opened on the board Formerly acAddVoicePrompt had to be issued prior to opening any channel on the board The following new RTP related events were added e acEV_BROKEN_RTP_CONNECTION this event is issued when for more than 300 msec there was no reception of RTP packets
9. RTCP_CLOSE events Supporting Cisco NSE mode for Modem automatic pass through Fax Modem bypass Basic payload size control With the new FaxModemBypassBasicRTPPacketInterval channel parameter the User can send multiples of 5 msec and 10 msec RTP frame size during Fax Modem bypass session Addition of a new field called CallerlDGenerationStatus at the Caller ID ended event This field reports if the Caller ID generation finished successfully or not Activate Deactivate T 38 API functions acActivateT38Channel acDeActivateT38Channel were added to enable better control over T 38 sessions Support for reordered RTP packets a new algorithm has been implemented to handle RTP packets which are received reordered This feature improves the voice quality on a network which suffers from packet reordering problems Configurable Answer Detector Sensitivity support This can reduce the false alarm rate CNG fax tone detection and T 38 Relay support Enables fast fax session detection for CNG generating fax machines Support for a special Jitter Buffer optimization mode for Modem or Fax User should set the jitter buffer Optimization Factor to 13 for Modem or Fax calls Note Installation and use of vocoders is subject to obtaining the appropriate license in advance of use and to royalty payments Version 4 2 9 October 2003 a 37 T wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways The DSPVersionTemplateNumber para
10. age nt RTP Package rtp TDM Circuit Package tdmc Basic Announcements Package an Expanded Call Progress Tones Generator Package xcg Basic Service Tones package srvtn Expanded Service Tones generation Package xsrvtn Enhanced Alerting Package alert Analog Display Signaling Package andisp caller ID Extended Analog Line Supervision Package xal FXO Package fxo Note that the remote hangup event in this package is NOT supported DNS support The Call agent can be defined using a domain name instead of IP address ServiceChange can be sent from the MGC to put endpoint s in or out of service In addition to the text format ABNF encoding there is support for binary encoding ASN 1 Support for dynamic payload assignment in the SDP Support for the ComfortNoise payload type 13 MGCP and MEGACO cannot coexist for controlling the same TrunkPack 3 1 9 Web Browser Support 3 1 9 1 Web Browser Features Release Notes The Web server was upgraded in the board module software providing the ability to set up board parameters using a standard Web interface The following new features were added Quick board Setup menu This menu Guides the User through mandatory steps and basic configuration of the board Retrieve from local disk and DOWNLOAD ini file and configuration CPT COEFF CAS VPMT via HTTP DOWNLOAD of run time software via HTTP RAM CMP 24 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Recent Revision Hi
11. are Supported m This version supports the following hardware platforms e MediaPack MP 124 FXS 24 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 108 FXS 8 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 108 FXO 8 analog FXO interfaces e MediaPack MP 104 FXS 4 analog FXS interfaces e MediaPack MP 104 FXO 4 analog FXO interfaces e MediaPack MP 102 FXS 2 analog FXS interfaces E Note that the following hardware platforms are no longer supported e MediaPack MP 100 e MediaPack MP 200 3 1 2 Analog New Features e Life line support only on the MP 108 FXS and MP 104 FXS using unused pins on port 4 and on the MP 102 FXS using port 2 Life line is activated when network and power supply are lost according to LIFELINETYPE parameter The LIFELINETYPE ini file parameter chooses the mode of operation of the lifeline When set to zero default only power down condition activates the Life Line When set to one both power down and or LAN failure activate the life line e Watchdog mechanism was added The system performs a self reset upon software failures e Default distinctive ring ring 0 when no external file is loaded 20 Hz ringing frequency and 200 400 cadence e CalleriD to Distinctive ringing The User can now generate a CallerID message during the generation of distinctive ringing e Support for climate control on MP 124 This feature saves power by turning the fan off when the temperature is lower than a given threshold e The
12. ation for the following AudioCodes products MediaPack Series MP 124 FXS 24 analog FXS interfaces MP 108 FXS 8 analog FXS interfaces MP 108 FXO 8 analog FXO interfaces MP 104 FXS 4 analog FXS interfaces MP 104 FXO 4 analog FXO interfaces MP 102 FXS 2 analog FXS interfaces Note With this manual as CD Web site or other electronic copies all cross references are hyperlinked so just click on the page or section numbers to reach the individual cross referenced item directly Notice These Release Notes describe the functionality of the AudioCodes MediaPack Series Boards supported by Software Release 4 2 Information contained in this document is believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of printing However due to ongoing product improvements and revisions AudioCodes cannot guarantee the accuracy of printed material after the Date Published nor can it accept responsibility for errors or omissions 2003 AudioCodes Ltd All rights reserved This document is subject to change without notice Please refer to the current release notes that may be included with your documentation or hardware delivery Date Published Oct 15 2003 Date Printed Nov 26 2003 Version 4 2 3 October 2003 MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Reader s Notes Release Notes 4 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Contents Table of Contents 1 What s New in Release 4 2 2x2 s sense anna naaa ann naaa anna aaa nn
13. cy Immediate opening after closing a channel capability In previous versions Users had to wait 100 msec between the time a channel was closed and reopened now this delay is not required New DTMF transport type RFC 8233 with decoder muting This mode allows for generation of DTMF relay packets towards the IP network and blocking of DTMF relay packets received from the IP network Support for changing Input Gain of a channel on the fly using acChangeChannelParameters Support for Type 1 and Type 2 Caller ID detection on FXO devices and generation on FXS devices according to Bellcore standard previously only Bellcore type 1 was supported On FXS devices support for the generation of visual Message Waiting Indication MWI for both FSK transmission and voltage On FXO devices support for visual MWI detection New acStopCallerlD API function Stops Caller ID generation New mechanism for a well defined order of play of call progress tones digits and voice prompts A new UserDialTiming parameter was added to acPlayVoicePrompt acDial and acPlayCallProgressTone This parameter allows the User to choose between immediate concatenated or default playing of the new Voice Prompt Digit CPT Improvement of RTCP jitter calculation The jitter statistics are now accurate to 1 msec Support for adding voice prompts on the fly Refer to Section 1 3 Host Related New Features on page 8 The DSPVersionTemplateNumber paramete
14. e contact AudioCodes The number of RTP payload packed in a single packet VoiceSettings M channel parameter is limited to 5 For G 729 20 msec the limitation is 2 When a channel is opened with many multiple RTP listeners 15 VoiceSettings M is limited to 2 RTP payload packing of 1 is used during in band DTMF signals regardless of the VoiceSettings M setting When using the TransparentWithEvents Fax amp Modem Transport Types the state machine has been changed so that on AnsAM signal an acEV_DETECT_ANSWER_TONE event is issued instead of acEV DETECT MODEM On modems that start with AnsAM signal acEV_DETECT_ MODEM event will be issued only after 12 seconds of pure modem call 2 5 1 Caller ID limitations 23 Release Notes The maximal allowed size of the Caller ID message that can be detected is according to the following formula 16 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Known Constraints 152 Number Of Parameters 4 2 24 The following fields are mandatory when generating ETSI Caller ID e Date e Time e All the fields of the ETSI Network Operation Use section 2 6 MGCP Constraints 25 MGCP and MEGACO control protocols cannot coexist on the device at the same time 26 Only one MGCP action can be associated with a requested event e g R hd N A is NOT supported 27 DNS support MGCP notified entity does NOT support conversion of URL 28 On MP 102 the following ini file parameters are NOT
15. hout resetting the board This action should be done before activating traffic in the board New administration features e Generic ini Parameters page for configuration of special parameters that are NOT supported by the regular Web pages Users can enter the parameter name or select the parameter from a list e Logo images upload the User has the option to change the logo that appears in the Web pages e Error control page the User can define criteria for filtering error messages that are sent to different interfaces e g by severity e Web Command Shell support for emulation of analog calls on off hook DTMF dialing and recording of the signals played by the PBX This enables the User or administrator to record and analyze the call progress tones played by the PBX in order to define a suitable CPT dat file 1 8 2 Web Server Interoperability The HTTP connection to AudioCodes boards was tested using the following browsers 67 68 Release Notes Microsoft Internet Explorer Ver 5 0 or newer Netscape Navigator Ver 7 0 or newer 12 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes What s New in this Release 1 9 SNMP New Features 69 New parameters were added to AudioCodes proprietary acBoardMIB more details can be found in the MIB e Additional MEGACO parameters were added e Added Set default functionality e Supplementary Parameters can be added for set actions only The ini file syntax
16. ime of day This feature allows the board to keep the current date and time day month year hour min sec The User can set the date and time either using acRemoteOpenBoard for VoPLib Users in this case the time is taken from the PC or via the Web interface The time is included in board errors and exceptions and Users can also view it via the Web Version 4 2 13 October 2003 7a T wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways 1 11 Documentation Changes 81 The old VoPLib Reference Library User s Manual Document LTRT 00744 is condensed and replaced in Release 4 2 with the following two more focused manuals 82 83 84 Release Notes VoPLib API Reference Manual Document LTRT 00840 which includes API Functions including description Structures mostly without description Enumerators mostly without description Events mostly without description This is an HTML document that is also available as a pdf VoPLib User s Manual Document LTRT 00844 which includes Product description Control protocols overview Configuration Methods Software Installation Host Board Channel Configuration parameters Using the VoPLib API Feature descriptions divided into subjects VoPLib PSTN IPmedia ATM etc main section VoPLib Events description VoPLib Error Codes Introduction to SS7 V5 2 Protocol TPNCP BootP DHCP Configuration Appendices PCI Driver related Software Installation Secti
17. ini file parameters FXKSCOEFFILENAME and FKOCOEFFILENAME names were changed to FKXSLOOPCHARACTERISTICSFILENAME and FXOLOOPCHARACTERISTICSFILENAME respectively The old names are still Version 4 2 19 October 2003 a WH wi AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Previous Versions supported for backward compatibility 3 1 3 Host Related New Features Release Notes Support for Sun Solaris Sparc 64 bit systems in TPNCP using Forte compiler Support for Windows XP New event filtering mechanism that prevents the board from sending selected events The User can select the desired undesired events by ini file new parameters DISABLETPNCPEVENT or by new API functions acEnableTPNCPEvents and acDisableTPNCPEvents By default all events are sent from the board New file voplibapi h This file includes all the application necessary header files This way the User s application does not need to include as before many VoP header files just this one VoP Lib sources were separated into two directories The interface files are located under include directory and the rest of the files are located under src directory New mechanism that verifies that the VoPLib version is compatible with boards firmware version If the two are not compatible the following debug event message is sent from the board VoP Lib TPNCP version error The following new analog events were added acEV_ANALOG_I
18. l number of command replies per action 100 e Maximal number of signals in a signal descriptor 1 e Maximal number of signals in a signal list descriptor 30 e Maximal number of reported signals 50 e Maximal number of events in an event descriptor 16 e Maximal number of reported events 50 e Maximal number of observed events 10 e Maximal number of event parameters 5 e Maximal number of audit return parameters 100 e Maximal number of DigitMap alternatives 52 e Maximal length of DigitMap 1256 e Maximal dial string length 30 e Maximal length of DigitMap name 30 2 8 Web Server Constraints 42 When using MGCP the color indication of an open or closed channel in the channel status page in the Web is wrong the textual information is correct 43 The option to download a new software image via TFTP was removed from the Web server 2 9 SNMP Constraints 44 Only one SNMP manager can access the boards modules at one time 45 On MP 102 the RTP MIB is NOT functional 46 Changing some MGCP Default parameters e g Voice volume via SNMP is NOT supported as it is possible to change them dynamically through MGCP commands on a call by call basis 2 10 Miscellaneous Constraints 47 The ini file parameter DePopulatedChannelsNumber is obsolete and is ignored Release Notes 18 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Recent Revision History Previous Versions 3 Recent Revision History 3 1 Revision 4 0 3 1 1 Hardw
19. meter selects the DSP firmware and hence the supported coder group The following list specifies the different values for DSPVersionTemplateNumber and their respective supported coder list e 0 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM G 723 G 729A e 1 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM this Template provides backward compatibility e 2 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM G 723 G 729A e 3 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM this Template provides backward compatibility These templates include additional media processing features Answer Detector and longer Echo Canceler 40 msec 1 46 MGCP New Features 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Release Notes New package e FMTP package dynamic payload type New signals e Call waiting2 wt2 e Call waiting3 wt3 e Call waiting4 wt4 e Reversal polarity generation e Wink signal prp e Metering tone mtr New event e RTP RTCP Timeout rto e Reversal polarity detection e Network disconnect osi Support for second endpoint id according to RFC 2705 Improved MGCP Quarantine mode Increase max number of Digit Maps to 50 Gateway now sends new RSIP if call agent does not accept the endpoint with 200 OK response Support O origin T time and S session fields in the SDP section of the MGCP response Keep alive heartbeat implemented using a proprietary RSIP message which is sent every 10 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes
20. n Relevant for FXO only A wink is generated by two line polarity reversals within a time interval of 100 msec up to 350 msec An event acEV_ANALOG_IF_WINK_DETECTION is issued upon detection of a wink This event is available also in MGCP 5 Metering tone detection Relevant for FXO only Ability to detect metering tone signals of 12 kHz and 16 kHz each frequency requires a separate coefficients file On detection of a metering tone event acEV_ANALOG_IF_DETECT_METERING_TONE is issued This event is also supported in MGCP 6 Current disconnect detection Relevant for FXO only This feature enables the FXO to detect a current disconnection also known as loop disconnect of 800 1000 msec A new event is issued acEV_ANALOG_IF_CURRENT_DISCONNECT_DETECTED 7 Line disconnect detection Relevant for FXO only This feature enables the FXO to detect a physical analog line disconnection when the current disconnect is longer then 1000 msec A new event is being issued acEV_ANALOG_IF_LINE_DISCONNECTED 8 Line connect detection This feature enables the FXO to detect a physical analog line connection when current is restored a new event is being issued acEV_ANALOG_IF_LINE_CONNECTED 9 FarEndDisconnect detection Relevant for FXO only This new mechanism allows the MP to detect a far end disconnection based on several criteria detection of certain call progress tones and or polarity reversal and or current disconnect A new event acEV FAR END
21. nablelpAddrTranslation and EnableUdpPortTranslation These parameters allow the User to specify the type of compare operation that takes place on the first incoming packet The User can specify for example that when receiving a first incoming packet with different source UDP port NAT does take place 18 Robust reception of RTP streams using a new filtering mechanism This new mechanism filters out unwanted RTP streams that are sent to the same port on the board These multiple RTP streams can result from traces of previous calls call control errors and deliberate attacks 19 New API for online network configuration acChangeNetworkParameters This new API allows the User to change the IP address subnet mask and default Gateway address without resetting the board This API doesn t affect currently opened channels only channels that are opened after this API is invoked behave according to the new network parameters 20 ICMP unreachable packet reporting the board can now report on reception of ICMP unreachable packets via acEV_REPORT_ICMP_UNREACHABLE andacEV_REPORT_ICMP_REACHABLE The User can configure the mechanism using the parameters EnablelCMPUnReachableReport and ICMPUnReachableReportinterval Release Notes 8 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes 21 22 What s New in this Release LAN watchdog This new mechanism detects LAN failures on the board and restarts the board if required A LAN failure can result from a
22. on a specific channel e acEV_RTP_CONNECTION_REASTABLISHED this event is reported when the RTP reception resumes 20 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Recent Revision History Previous Versions e acEV_RTCP_CLOSE this event is issued when closing channel This event includes statistics for the closed channel only relevant to RTP channels Delete all Voice Prompts It is now possible to delete all Voice Prompts using command acDeleteAllVoicePrompts A new optional parameter int EventInfoSize was added to the function acGetEvents This parameter if used is a pointer in which the actual Eventinfo size is returned A Tool Command Language TCL extension implementing the interface to the VoPLib was added to the example folder The numbers of the following error codes were changed e CMD NO LONGER SUPPORTED 0x36100 was changed to CMD_NO_LONGER_SUPPORTED 0x370 From this version on most internally used functions not API functions get the prefix _ 3 1 4 Ethernet Interface Related New Features New API function acChangelPAddress This API enables the User to change the boards IP address while the board is running New heartbeat mechanism The User can configure the board to send a special heartbeat packet in User defined intervals The destination IP address and port for the heartbeat packets are also definable Three new ini file parameters are used to configure the heartbeat mechanism HeartBeatInter
23. on was transferred from the Product User s Manuals MGCP and MEGACO related information was transferred from the old VoPLib Reference Library User s Manual to the individual Product User s Manuals 14 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Known Constraints 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 Known Constraints After loading and burning a CMP file to the boards FLASH memory Users must reload all other downloadable data files Call Progress Tones file Voice Prompts file Coefficients etc This is due to the fact that in the CMP loading and burning process all the data files that were previously stored on FLASH are erased New Hardware Constraints None reported Analog Interface Constraints 1 MP 124 rev A and MP 124 rev B do NOT support the following e Long haul e Caller ID generation e MWI generation 2 On FXO polarity reversal detection while using 12 kHz coefficients file MP 1xx12 1 12khz fxo is not functional Host API Constraints 3 On MP 102 for TPNCP Users the two analog ports are mapped to TPNCP CIDs 2 and 3 4 For additional host API constraints which are not MP specific refer to AudioCodes IP Networking Constraints 5 In some cases having spanning tree enabled on the external Ethernet switch port connected to the board causes the external switch to block any traffic coming in and out of the board for some time after the board is reset This may cause the lost of important packets
24. r selects the DSP firmware and hence the supported coder group The following list specifies the different values for DSPVersionTemplateNumber and their respective supported coder list e 0 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM G723 G729A GSM e 1 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM NetCoder e 2 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM G723 G729A GSM e 3 DSP firmware supports PCM ADPCM NetCoder These templates include an additional IPmedia features Answer Detector 3 1 6 SNMP Support Release Notes RTP MIB The RTP MIB is supported per RFC 2959 It contains objects relevant to the RTP streams generated and terminated by the board and to the RTCP information related to these streams acBoardMIB This AudioCodes proprietary MIB contains objects related both to the configuration of the board and channels as well as to run time information New SNMP board related parameters were added 22 Document LTRT 00616 Release Notes Recent Revision History Previous Versions e DisableSNMP ini file parameter This parameter disables the SNMP e SNMPPort ini file parameter this parameter specifies the port number for requests from the manger to the agent and responses from agent to manger e SNMPTrapPort ini file parameter specifies the port number on which the traps are transmitted from agent to manager 3 1 7 MGCP New Features Users should provision the ini file parameter MGCControlProtocolType for using the
25. ra AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Release Notes Version 4 2 Document LTRT 00616 US AudioCodes Inc 2890 Zanker Road Suite 200 San Jose CA 95134 Tel 408 577 0488 Fax 408 577 0492 International AudioCodes Ltd 4 HaHoresh Street PO Box 14 Yehud 56470 Israel Tel 972 3 539 4000 Fax 972 3 539 4040 China AudioCodes Ltd Room 2811 12 JingGuang Center HuJiaLou Chaoyang District Beijing 100020 P R China Tel 86 10 6597 4134 Fax 86 10 6597 4260 Japan S Building B1F 2 30 2 Chuou Nakano ku Tokyo 164 0011 Japan Tel Fax 81 3 5348 1405 Fax 81 3 5348 1405 Release Notes General Trademarks AC AudioCoded AudioCodes AudioCodes logo IPmedia Mediant MediaPack NetCoder Stretto TrunkPack and VoicePacketizer are trademarks or registered trademarks of AudioCodes Limited All other products or trademarks are the property of their respective owners Customer Support Customer technical support and service are provided by AudioCodes Distributors Partners and Resellers from whom the product was purchased For Customer support for products purchased directly from AudioCodes contact support audiocodes com Abbreviations Each abbreviation unless widely used is spelled out in full when first used Only industry standard terms are used throughout this manual Hexadecimal notation is indicated by Ox preceding the number Applicable Products This manual provides additional inform
26. software or hardware malfunction A new board parameter EnableLanWatchDog enables this feature default is disabled Updated HeartBeat configuration The 4 byte Heart Beat payload carried over the Heart Beat header was replaced with the sender s MAC address The Payload Type was updated to 0x1 The sending interval range was extended to allow long intervals in terms of days 1 5 VoIP Engine New Features 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Jitter Buffer parameters DJBufMinDelay amp DJBufOptFactor can now be changed on the fly using the acChangeChannelParameters function Upon such a change the Jitter Buffer will reset before applying the new settings Support for reception of RTP packets with the header Padding bit set to 1 Support for different RFC 2833 payload type values for sending and receiving using 2 new parameters RFC2833RTPTxPayloadType and RFC2833RTPRxPayloadType Support for dialing of DTMF and MF digits to the IP network over RFC 2833 previously only in band dialing was supported Improved Broken Connection event mechanism User can now set the event timeout using the BrokenConnectionEventTimeout parameter in 100 msec units In addition BrokenConnectionEventActivationMode controls if the detector is activated when the channel is opened or from first RTP packet received from the network Adding Packets and Octets received fields to the acEV_RTCP and acEV_
27. story Previous Versions e Improved help menus Help related to each page with parameters explanations and usage e Enhanced information about software revisions hardware configurations MAC address etc m Embedded Web server password protection support was added The User can change the password from the Change Password Web page note that a hardware restart must follow this operation The User can reset the password to the default value of Admin by using the ini file parameter RESETWEBPASSWORD this should always be applied the first time the hardware is used If this parameter is not part of the ini file the hardware remembers the last password used The default Username is Admin and the Password is Admin m The analog coefficients file loading using the Web interface is not supported in the MP 10X FXO boards 3 1 9 2 Web Browser Interop The Web browser connection to AudioCodes boards was tested using the following browsers E Microsoft Internet Explorer Ver 5 0 or newer m Netscape Navigator Ver 7 0 or newer 3 2 Previous Releases Details of previous releases can be found in the Release Notes of Version 4 0 Document LTRT 00616 published by AudioCodes on Oct 21 2002 Version 4 2 25 October 2003 a WH wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Previous Versions US AudioCodes Inc 2890 Zanker Road Suite 200 San Jose CA 95134 Tel 408 577 0488 Fax 408 5
28. such as BootP and TFTP requests which in turn may cause the board to fail to start up A possible workaround is to set the BootPRetries ini file parameter to 5 causing the board to issue 20 BootP requests for 60 seconds A second workaround would be to disable the spanning tree on the port of the external switch which is connected to the board 6 Configuring the board to auto negotiate mode while the opposite port is set manually to full duplex either 10 Base T or 100 Base T is invalid It is also invalid to set the board to one of the manual modes while the opposite port is configured differently The User is encouraged to always prefer full duplex connections over half duplex and 100 Base T over 10 Base T due to the larger bandwidth Version 4 2 15 October 2003 7a wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways 2 5 VolP Engine Constraints f 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 NetCoder is no longer supported on the MP 1xx product line Modem relay is not supported FRF 11 Fax and DTMF proprietary relay is no longer supported Due to that the channel parameter UseT38orFRF11 and the enumerator values of MF DTMFTransportType acProprietaryDTMFRelay acProprietaryMFRelay are obsolete The default values of the DTMF amp MF Transport Types were changed from proprietary FRF 11 to RFC 2833 RTCP port RTP port 1 must be kept for the incoming traffic
29. supported e MGCPEndpointNumberingOffset e MGCPActiveEndpoints 29 On MP 102 the use of AUEP command with wildcard is not supported 30 On MP 102 the first RTP channel uses UDP port of BaseUDPPort 20 2 7 MEGACO Constraints 31 ModemDescriptor and MuxDescriptor are NOT supported in this version 32 The auditCapabilities reply does NOT return the parameter values 33 Version legality is NOT checked 34 Call Agent legality is NOT checked every request is performed 35 In the FXS modules only Bellcore CallerlID is supported for signal generation 36 On MP 102 the first RTP channel uses UDP port of BaseUDPPort 20 37 Input gain and echo canceller parameters cannot be changed on the fly using MEGACO The target termination should first be subtracted for the changes to take effect 38 The DigitMap field in the Web SNMP can not be changed on line A reset is needed for a new value 39 Ifthe values of input gain and echo canceller are changed via Web SNWMP it will not affect the next call only the one after it 40 The IP address of call agent can not be set through BootP application anymore 41 Size Limitations e Maximal command length 6000 bytes Version 4 2 17 October 2003 a lt E wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways e Maximal number of transactions per message 10 e Maximal number of actions per transaction 150 e Maximal number of command requests per action 10 e Maxima
30. t nt netfail is now supported It will be sent if the RTP stream was broken 1 8 Embedded Web Server New Features 1 8 1 Web Server Features 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 User help when delaying for more than 1 second on the parameter name a short description of this parameter is displayed Invalid parameter value warning alert invalid parameters are colored red and a short warning message is displayed HTTP port can be configured via ini file The User can now retrieve the board configuration in ini file format The ini file is downloaded from the board via the Web browser and contains all parameters that are different from their default value The ini file can then be uploaded to a second board in order to apply the same configuration Restore default button before uploading an ini file to the board the User can choose to set all configuration parameters to their default values by pressing the Restore Defaults button If an ini file is loaded without restoring the defaults first only the parameters that appear in the ini file are modified Support for Date and Time configuration Message log page adds the option to watch the error logs directly without an external SysLog server Message log page adds the option to watch the error logs directly without an external SysLog server Save Configuration button burning the current configuration to the flash memory wit
31. to the ini file This parameter will be used in the header of the MEGACO command instead of the local IP and port If this parameter is not defined in the ini file the default local IP and port will be used The syntax of this parameter should be according to the Mid definition of the MEGACO If the syntax is wrong an error message will be sent to the SysLog and the local IP and port will be used This is relevant for TEXT MEGACO only Note that this parameter is NOT supported via Web or SNMP A new profile bit was added to the existing ini file parameter MGCPCompaitibilityProfile Adding the value 16 to the current value activates it For example using the default profile 2 with full SDP support and this profile the total value will be 26 2 8 16 This profile controls the following e Inthe serviceChange request the Timestamp parameter is omitted e The audit command on ROOT termination with packages descriptor returns the total supported packages for the board e The default packetization period ptime for the transparent coder is 10 milliseconds Using the SDP attribute ptime of course can change this e The packetization period of the FAX Bypass mode will be the same as the one required for voice When not using this profile the packetization period will be set according to ini file FaxBypassBasicRTPPacketinterval 11 October 2003 a WH wi AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways 56 The even
32. valmSec HeartBeatDestIP and HeartBeatDestPort Added support to IP Multicasting level1 according to RFC 1112 3 1 5 VoIP Engine New Features Version 4 2 Support for Fax Bypass RTP Dynamic payload type This enables the Fax Bypass feature to work with other similar modes on other vendors Gateways A new feature was added that sends only RFC 2833 RTP packets while receiving any types of packet Support for the IETF RTP Payload for Comfort Noise CN per RFC 3389 Enhancement of the Voice Prompt playback mechanism Voice Prompts that are recorded with G 711 A law and G 711 law can be played to a channel being opened with any coder e g G 723 Voice Prompts that are being recorded with anything other than G 711 A law and G 711 law can be played only to the TDM side when the channel is being opened with the same coder as the Voice Prompts coder New event EV_RTCP_CLOSE is issued when closing channel This event includes statistics for the closed channel only relevant to RTP channels Support for detection of call progress tones and DTMF from the packet network side The User determines on which side does the channel detect CPT and DTMF using the parameter IBSDRedirection in the channel parameters Support G 729 10 msec packet interval mode 21 October 2003 A T wt AudioCodes MediaPack Series Analog Gateways Previous Versions RTP Dynamic Payload Types according to RFC 2833 DTMF Relay and RFC 2198 RTP Redundan
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