New Release 7.0 Features and Platform Support
Introducing Strata CS Release 7.0
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New Administration Features and Settings
• SIP Phone Management -
The Strata CS Administrator creates and manages the appropriate Aastra
SIP phone configuration files <mac>.cfg and Aastra.cfg. When you use the Administrator to edit an
external SIP station setting and specify the Aastra SIP phone’s MAC address, or when you edit SIP
span settings, the appropriate configuration files are now created or updated, and are applied the next
time the SIP phone is reset. You can also edit these files manually and your edits are preserved.
• User Templates –
User templates can now be created that contain collections of user settings you can
apply to multiple users and roles in bulk. User templates make it easy to create users with similar
settings. You can also use them to make bulk changes of individual settings to existing users.
• Phone Templates -
Phone Templates contain collections of phone settings, organized by each phone
family and model (e.g. Nortel, Toshiba, analog, etc). Once defined, pressing *0 on an unassigned
extension will apply the default phone template for that device type. You can also apply phone settings
to one or more users or roles to make bulk changes of individual phone settings as needed. Predefine
phone templates are installed for all device types – you can access these templates using Tools > Phone
Templates…
• User Import/Export -
You can import users in bulk from a Windows Server’s Active Directory or a
CSV file using the Administrator’s Import and Export menu option. When importing users, you can set
all user settings (using user templates) and phone settings (using phone templates).
• New User Template -
From
File > New Users from template
you can manually enter basic user
details into a grid and specify corresponding user and phone templates to rapidly create many users
without a CSV file or Active Directory source.
• RTP Relay for SIP to SIP Calls -
SIP calls involving only SIP end-points are handled using off-bus
routing. With off-bus routing, packets in a SIP to SIP call are routed more directly from one SIP end-
point to the other through Strata CS’s RTP Relay instead of via the TDM bus of the Intel Dialogic
boards. The result is higher voice quality and lower latency, and in some configurations, reduced Intel
RTP resource usage. The RTP relay runs in Windows Kernel mode by default, to keep CPU usage low.
• DiffServ Support -
DiffServ QoS is now supported on H.323 and SIP Spans and is configured using
the “Layer 3 QoS TOS Octet” setting on the Tuning tab of the Span. Due to limitations of the Intel
drivers, this feature is not available on Intel’s 10BT boards (DM/IP-241-1T1-10P and DM/IP-301-1E1-
10P). To use this feature your network equipment and VoIP devices must support DiffServ QoS.
Please refer to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1349.txt and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2474.txt for more
information.
• External SIP Station Authentification -
SIP external stations can be authenticated based on per-
station authentication settings, per-span authentication settings or user extensions and passwords.
• Phone Settings in Administrator -
All phone settings are available in Administrator including call
waiting settings. Previously some of these phone settings were only available in ViewPoint.
• Call History Pane -
The Device Monitor has been enhanced with a Call History pane showing real-
time activity on any trunk or station. Also the Administrator contains a
View call history
permission to
determine if users have the ability to see the call history pane in ViewPoint’s Call Monitor or Call Log.
• Active Call Duration -
The Device Monitor can display the duration of any active call when you
click on a trunk or station.
• Enhanced Dial Plan View -
The Dial plan view can show entries from the perspective of the PSTN
(e.g. by DID numbers) or from internal dial tone (e.g. by Extensions)
• Network Traffic Facility -
A built-in network capture facility collects network traces in and out of
the Strata CS Server for client / server communications and VoIP signaling. This facility and is on by
default. It can also optionally capture RTP audio traffic as well to troubleshoot QoS issues. This ability
is off by default as it requires more CPU resources. See Chapter 12 of the
Strata CS Administrator
Manual
for details.
