Aastra Telecom 41-001343-02 manual Silence Suppression, Configuring RTP Features

Global SIP Settings

When an active call is using SRTP (i.e. when an SRTP enabled IP phone initiates a call and the receiving phone is also SRTP enabled) and the transport protocol is set to TLS, the IP Phone UI displays a “lock” icon, indicating that the call is secure. If one of the phones does not support SRTP and/or TLS is not enabled, the IP Phone UIs do not display the lock icon, indi- cating that the call may not be secure.

Note:

If you enable SRTP, then you should also enable Transport Layer Security (TLS). This prevents capture of the key used for SRTP encryption. To enable TLS, set the Transport Protocol parameter (located on the Global SIP Settings menu) to TLS.

You can configure SRTP on a global or per-line basis using the configuration files or the Aastra Web UI.

Silence Suppression

In IP telephony, silence on a line (lack of voice) uses up bandwidth when sending voice over a packet-switched system. Silence suppression is encoding that starts and stops the times of silence in order to eliminate that wasted bandwidth.

Silence suppression is enabled by default on the IP phones. The phone negotiates whether or not to use silence suppres- sion. Disabling this feature forces the phone to ignore any negotiated value.

You can configure silence suppression on a global-basis using the configuration files or the Aastra Web UI.

Option to Include/Remove Silence Suppression Attribute from SDP Offer

The parameter sip remove silence suppression offer is available allowing administrators the ability to control whether or not the silence suppression attribute should be included in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer.

If enabled (1), the silence suppression attribute will be removed from the SDP offer. If disabled (0), the attribute will not be removed from the SDP offer. This parameter is disabled by default and requires a reboot if the value of the parameter has changed. You can configure this parameter using the configuration files only.

Configuring RTP Features

Use the following procedures to configure the RTP features on the IP phone.

Configuration Files

For specific parameters you can set for RTP features in the configuration files, see Appendix A, the section, “RTP, Codec, DTMF Global Settings” on page A-99.

IP Phone UI

1.	on the phone to enter the Options List.
Press

2.Select Administrator Menu.

3.Enter your Administrator password.

Note:

The IP Phones accept numeric passwords only.

4.Select SIP Settings.

5.Select RTP Port Base to change the RTP port base setting. Default is 3000.

6.Press Done (2 times) to save the change.

Note:

The session prompts you to restart the IP phone to apply the configuration settings

7.Select Restart.

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