Multi-Tech Systems MVP120 manual Billing/Misc Tab, Using the MultiVOIP Software

Chapter 7 - Using the MultiVOIP Software

The Fax group enables a fax machine to transmit and receive faxes through the MVP120. If a fax machine is connected to the via PBX port or PTSN, the Max Baud Rate should be set to match the baud rate of the fax machine (refer to user documentation). The Fax Volume setting controls the output level of the fax tones, and this setting should be changed only under the direction of Multi-Tech’s Technical Support personnel. The Jitter Value setting defines the inter- arrival packet deviation (in milliseconds) for the fax transmission. A higher value will increase the amount of delay (allowing for a higher percentage of packets to be reassembled) and a lower value would decrease the amount of delay (a lower percentage of packets would be reassembled).

The Advanced Features group allows you to enable Silence Compression so that a MVP120 will not transmit voice packets when silence is detected, thereby reducing the amount of network bandwidth that is being used by the voice channel; Echo Cancellation for the voice channel will remove echo and improve the quality of sound; and, Forward Error Correction allowing some of the voice packets that were corrupted (or lost) to be recovered. FEC adds an additional 50% overhead to the total network bandwidth consumed by the voice channel.

Billing/Misc Tab

This tab controls the parameters for auto call, automatic disconnection, billing options, and dynamic jitter buffer.

The Auto Call option allows the local MVP120 to call a remote MVP120 without the user having to dial a Phone Directory Database number. As soon as you access the local MVP120 voice/fax channel, the MVP120 immediately connects to the remote MVP120 that you identified in the Remote MVP120 Phone Number field of this option.

The Automatic Disconnection group provides three options which can be used singly or in any combination. The Jitter Value defines the average inter-arrival packet deviation (in milliseconds) before the call is automatically disconnected.The default is 20 milliseconds. A higher value means voice transmission will be more accepting of jitter. A lower value is less tolerant of jitter.

Consecutive Packets Lost defines the number of consecutive packets that are lost after which the call is automatically disconnected. The default is 30 packets.

Call Duration defines the maximum length of time (in seconds) that a call remains connected before the call is automatically disconnected. The default is 180 seconds. A call limit of three minutes may be too short for most configurations. Therefore, you may want to increase this default value.

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