Call Processing

Multi-location

Communication Manager release 2.2 or later allows a Linux-based server located in one country to control gateways located across national borders and provide appropriate country-specific tones and features. Specifically, these features include the following:

A-law & Mu-law Companding

Call Progress Tone Generation

Loss Plan

Analog line board parameters

Call Detail Recording

R2-MFC (Multifrequency-Signaling) trunks

Multi-location functionality is subject to the following limitations:

25 Countries

R2-MFC: 8 signaling sets

Additional Tone Generators (TN 2182 in Port Networks, built-in tone generators in Media Gateways) are required to support country-specific tones

No per-country alarms or traffic reports are available

LSPs must be set to the same time zone as the server

This feature is intended for IP-remoted gateways, not DS1-remoted Port Networks.

Modem/Fax/TTY over IP

In the past, many organizations have experienced problems transporting modem, fax, and TTY tones over an IP Telephony network, regardless of vendor. Modems, faxes, and TTYs are very sensitive to latency and jitter, and do not tolerate distortion induced through compression, expansion, and transcoding. In order to overcome these difficulties, Avaya has enhanced its modem, fax, and TTY-over-IP support in release 2.2 and later.

There are two enhanced modes for supporting Modem-over-IP (MoIP): pass-through and relay. Pass-through is essentially a best-effort transmission, and works by forcing the use of the G.711 (uncompressed) codec for the call. Re-transmission is governed by the application.

Pass-through mode is suited to LAN environments where both ends of a call are synchronized using a common clock source. Relay, on the other hand, uses redundant packet transmission to protect against packet loss. Because relay mode does not force the use of G.711, it requires less bandwidth than pass-through, however requires more DSP resources. Relay is more effective than pass-through across a WAN.

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Avaya 555-245-600 manual Multi-location, Modem/Fax/TTY over IP