Chapter 1 Functionality

About Gateway Features

Table 1-1

Gateway Feature Summary (continued)

 

 

 

Feature

 

Description

 

 

 

Dual video

 

The gateway supports H.239 standards-based dual video and TANDBERG

 

 

DuoVideo technology. Dual video streams enable a screen to carry video images

 

 

from one source while simultaneously displaying images from a second source.

 

 

 

Hot swap

 

The gateway features hot swap functionality that you can use to remove and

 

 

replace gateway cards under power.

 

 

Conceal caller ID

The gateway supports a conceal caller ID feature that instructs the gatekeeper to

 

 

conceal the identity of the calling endpoint on the IP or ISDN network, whether

 

 

the presentation restricted feature is enabled or not.

 

 

 

H.323 fast start

 

The gateway H.323 fast start feature enables endpoints to join a voice conference

 

 

in the gateway more quickly.

 

 

ISDN rollover (available in Cisco Unified

The gateway features ISDN rollover. In this feature, the gateway sends a “busy

Videoconferencing 3545 PRI Gateway

out” channel request to the PSTN switch when the current PRI connection is left

only)

 

with less than a predefined number of available B channels. The PSTN switch

 

 

“rolls over” to the next available gateway.

 

 

Network Specific Facility (available in

The gateway provides support for Network Specific Facility Information

Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 3545

Elements (NSF IEs) which enable system administrators to specify to service

PRI Gateway only)

providers the equipment, service, or network through which they want a call

 

 

routed.

 

 

ISDN connection failure

The gateway responds to ISDN connection failure events, by unregistering from

 

 

its gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is forced to send new IP-to-ISDN calls through a

 

 

different gateway, thus ensuring high call completion rates. The gateway

 

 

re-registers to the gatekeeper when the ISDN connection is restored.

 

 

 

Downspeeding

 

The gateway features downspeeding functionality. In the downspeeding feature,

 

 

the gateway attempts to reconnect a disconnected video call either at a lower

 

 

bandwidth or as a voice call. Downspeeding contributes to a higher percentage of

 

 

call completion on the network. The gateway supports downspeeding at call setup

 

 

and in mid-call.

 

 

Multiple trap server support

The gateway supports up to three SNMP trap servers.

 

 

 

H.239 support

 

The gateway supports the H.239 protocol in ISDN-to-IP calls and in IP-to-ISDN

 

 

calls.

 

 

Encryption support

The gateway supports H.235-compliant AES 128 encryption for calls over IP

 

 

networks, and H.233 and H.234-compliant AES 128 encryption for calls over

 

 

ISDN networks.

 

 

H.243 Conference Control support

The gateway supports the H.243 protocol in ISDN-to-IP calls and in IP-to-ISDN

 

 

calls. The gateway identifies the protocol version that an IP endpoint uses and

 

 

sends H.239 capabilities only to those endpoints working with protocol version

 

 

4.0 or later.

 

 

Peer-to-peer connectivity

The gateway supports connectivity to the IP network through a gatekeeper, or

 

 

directly to a peer device such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

 

 

IP network connections

The gateway has one 10/100Base-T Ethernet IP port (on the front panel) and

 

 

connects to an IP segment through a direct connection to a network switch.

 

 

 

Table 1-2 on page 1-4lists features for specific Cisco gateways.

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