I see NET’s just released a firmware update for the Tenor series of UC Gateways. It takes it up from “AS_AF_AX_BX-DXi-P108-09-18” to “AS_AF_AX_BX-DXi-P108-09-21”. No idea what’s in it, and I’m not allowed to post it here (sorry) – but if you’re a Tenor devotee like me, you’ve already abandoned this post and are downloading it …
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You might have seen my earlier post on the file formats you need for audio files for Lync and Exchange. From firmware release 2.1.x, the UX family of PSTN Gateways now support the direct provision of Music On Hold (MOH). “The Music On Hold feature allows you to play music or other audio while a …
Long-thought impossible, it turns out that you CAN configure an NET Tenor (nee Quintum) FXS gateway for HOTLINE operation. Here’s how.
The NET Tenor appears to have a bug in its “108 Routing” (a feature enhancement I wrote of here and here). If you make a call to an FXS port that’s busy, the Tenor reports “SIP/2.0 503 Service Unavailable” instead of “SIP/2.0 486 Busy here”, and this is reflected back to the calling party. A …
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Before you commit to going CU4, make sure your Gateways are at a compatible version of firmware. For the NET UX and VX, the minimum supported versions are: VX 4.7.5v55 UX 1.3.2 build 89 UX 2.0.1 build 118 – G.
Updated 12th December 2011. (Scroll to the bottom) We’ve found here in Oz with the UX that occasionally a random failure code from the carrier is enough to block the entire gateway. The NET faithfully interprets the applicable standards, mapping the ISDN failure messages to their SIP equivalents, then sends the resulting message to Lync. …
Lync for all its cleverness has one or two minor, transient shortcomings. There, I’ve said it. One of these is the ambiguity of the message provided to a user when they try to call a number that’s barred by their Voice Policy: “Call was not completed or has ended”.
The NET (nee Quintum) Tenor gateway family has recently seen a functionality injection with the introduction of what they’re calling “108 Routing”. Until now the Tenor has had some limitations in its routing capabilities. One such restriction was that the outbound (IP) destination was either H.323 or SIP – you could never run both in …
Every so often I want to add some new functionality in a live Lync system, and it needs to be tested before it goes live. My normal approach to this is to add routing for a fake country code to get the call to the relevant gateway, then change the number back to something genuine …
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NET’s vxBuilder application has a handy “Recent” list that serves as a directory of your most-visited sites. I recently decided that the growing list of IP addresses needed to go and be replaced by their names. It didn’t take long to find the list – it’s tucked away in the Registry at HKCU\Software\Network Equipment Technologies\SHOUTbuilder\Recent, …