Legal Intercept

Intercepts all incoming and outgoing calls of this customer for law enforcement purposes.

First Login Greeting

When a new account (phone number) in this IP Centrex environment is provisioned and registers for the first time, call this phone back and play a pre-recorded voice message confirming service activation, giving information about various available options, and so on.

RTP Proxy

RTP Proxy

This specifies the RTP proxy policy for this customer. For a description of possible values, refer to the Calls to/from Vendor connections with Voice Calls service type section.

CLI Trust

Accept Caller Identity

• Favor forwarder – Use the redirector- provided ID for caller identification. 

• Caller only – Use the caller-provided ID for caller identification. 

• None – Do not accept caller-provided ID for caller identification.

Supply Caller Identity

• Yes – accept the remote network and maintain caller ID on outgoing headers (even for private calls).

• No – do not accept the remote network and strip any private caller’s ID.

Music On Hold

Defines the music on hold to be used with the IP Centrex environment.

Music On Hold

• Select Enabled to activate this feature for the customer.

• Select Disabled to make this feature unavailable to the customer.

File

Defines the music on hold to be used with the IP Centrex environment.

• Select the music from the list. The list includes all the files you uploaded before, for other customers.

• Select Upload New Music to upload your own music. The Upload New Music dialog box appears.

In the Upload New Music dialog box, select a file on your local file system using the Browse button. To rename the music, enter the desired name in the Music Name field; otherwise the local file name will be used. Then click Upload.

The uploaded music will replace the previous entry in the list, and is usually enabled within 10 minutes. It also appears in the list of available MOH files and you can assign it to another customer.

For a list of supported audio file formats, see Audio File Formats Supported by Music on Hold Feature.

Call Parking

Call Parking

• Select Enabled to activate this feature for the customer.

• Select Disabled to make this feature unavailable to the customer.

Park Prefix

The end user can dial this access code to park a call.

The default value is *70.

This access code is available only if call parking is enabled for the customer.

Read-only field. For information about how to configure Park Prefix, please see the Service Codes table on the Dialing Rules Wizard page.

Release Prefix

The end user can dial this access code to retrieve

a call from the parked status. 

The default value is *71.

This access code is available only if call parking is enabled for the customer.

Read-only field. For information about how to configure Park Prefix, please see the Service Codes table on the Dialing Rules Wizard page.

Limit simultaneous calls

Limit simultaneous calls

Engage real-time checks of the number of concurrent calls made by this customer’s accounts. When the specified number of concurrent calls has already been established (calls are in a “connected” state) and the account tries to place another call, that call will be rejected.

NOTE: To enable the Limit Simultaneous Calls feature, activate the send_start_acct option for the corresponding PortaSIP instances on the Configuration Server. To increase the features accuracy, activate the allow_reauth option too. Note that these features may slightly increase the load on the billing engine.

Count:

• All calls - Choose this option to allow a specific number of concurrent calls (both internal and external).
• Off-centrex calls only - Choose this option to allow only a specific number of external concurrent calls. Once this specified number of simultaneous calls is established and an end user attempts to place another call, that call is rejected. This limitation applies to external calls only. IP Centrex users can call each other as much as they need.

allow no more than ... forwarded calls

Define a maximum number of concurrent forwarded calls allowed for this customer’s accounts. This limit is only applied when calls are forwarded to external numbers.

allow no more than ... incoming calls

Define a maximum number of concurrent incoming calls allowed for this customer’s accounts.

allow no more than ... outgoing calls

out of ... simultaneous calls

Codec connectivity profile

Select a suitable codec connectivity profile that will be used for bandwidth allocation calculation. Every new call’s allocated bandwidth is calculated by considering a negotiated codec and its parameters to enable full use of the available bandwidth and block new calls if no more bandwidth is available.

Max bandwidth

This allows you to configure the bandwidth utilization limitation to ensure that only an acceptable number of calls are allowed, in order to avoid severe degradation of the sound quality on calls in progress.

The system plays a 'limit reached' warning when allocated bandwidth is used up.

NOTE: Playing warning prompts requires an additional 8 Kbps of bandwidth. Therefore, set aside a certain amount of bandwidth (about 8 Kbps) when you define the bandwidth limit.

Note that only external calls are scrutinized during bandwidth consumption calculation.

Max incoming bandwidth

This allows you to configure the bandwidth utilization limitation for incoming calls.

Max outgoing bandwidth

This allows you to configure the bandwidth utilization limitation for outgoing calls.

Endpoint Redirection

This allows the end user to configure call redirection on their SIP phones (if this feature is supported by the SIP phone).

Ext-to-Ext Call Distinctive Ring

For incoming calls from phones within the IP Centrex environment, use a ring pattern different from the default one.

Sip Contact

Sip Contact

Enable this feature to define the way a SIP device will perform SIP registration to PortaSwitch®.

Deliver Incoming Calls To

Define whether the IP PBX address for delivering incoming calls is taken from the IP PBX registration account or specified directly in the Static Address field.

Account

This shows the customer’s IP PBX registration account.

This option is usually selected if a customer’s IP PBX is located at a dynamic IP address and can register only the main phone line (provisioned as the registration account in PortaBilling®) on the PortaSIP® server.

Static Address

Enable this feature if the customer’s IP PBX can’t perform SIP registration to PortaSwitch®.

Use Original CLD

Specify the destination number that calls will be routed to. If left blank, the number originally dialed will be used as the destination number.

Host

This contains the destination host the calls will be routed to. A customer’s IP PBX can be identified with one of the following options:

• A valid IP address (four numbers separated by points, e.g. 12.34.56.78).

• A valid domain name (e.g. pbx.example.com).

A valid domain name with configured DNS SVR records. In this case, PortaSIP® will round-robin through them.

Transport

Select the transport protocol (either TCP or UDP) that is used to deliver incoming calls.

User-managed SIP addresses

User-managed SIP addresses

Define to which external SIP proxies the customer can forward calls using the SIP URI forward feature.

Addresses

Type IP addresses or hostnames of external SIP proxies here. Use one of the following formats:

• IP address

• IP address:port

• hostname

• hostname:port

A user-managed SIP address must be unique. Its value length should not be greater than the allowed maximum (255).

Group Pickup

Group Pickup

The Group Pickup feature enables members of the same huntgroup to answer each other’s calls by dialing a Group Pickup Prefix.

To fine-tune a group pickup functionality, a customer can organize IP Centrex extensions into pickup groups. Pickup groups are based on huntgroups, i.e. huntgroup A with number 2000 can serve as primary pickup group for its extensions 123 and 456. At the same time extension 123 can also belong to huntgroup B with number 9999.

In this example, extension 123 has the following pickup options:

• To pick up an incoming call to huntgroup A (its primary pickup group) by dialing only *40;
• To pick up an incoming call to extension 456 by dialing *40456 (both extensions belong to the same huntgroup and have it as their primary pickup group);
• To pick up an incoming call to huntgroup B by dialing *409999 (since extension 123 also belongs to this huntgroup).

Note that group pickup must be enabled for the particular huntgroup as well.

In case no primary pickup groups are defined within the IP Centrex (e.g. a small company with only several staff members) any extension can pick up incoming calls of others by dialing only the pickup prefix.

Override Identity

Override Identity

Here you can set options that an end user may use for an identity. If an end user applies an identity that does not belong among the options permitted, it will be replaced with an identity provided by an administrator. PortaBilling® provides several options for overriding identity information:

• Never – The caller’s identity information supplied by the remote party will neither be screened nor overridden. This implies that the remote party is trusted and takes full responsibility for the supplied display number and display name.

• If Different From Account ID And Aliases – The identity will be overridden if it differs from the ID of the account that is authorized for the call and any of the aliases assigned to this account.

• If Different From All Customer Accounts – The identity will be overridden if it doesn’t match an account ID (or account alias) of any account belonging to this customer.

• If Different From All Accounts In The Specified Batch – An end user may only specify an identity (account ID or account alias) that belongs to his account’s batch. If a specified identity does not belong to that batch, it will be replaced with an identity provided by an administrator.

• If Different From All Accounts in the Specified Huntgroup – An end user may only specify an identity (account ID or account alias) that belongs to his account’s huntgroup. If a specified identity does not belong to the huntgroup, it will be replaced with an identity provided by an administrator.

• If Different From All Accounts in the Specified Site – An end user may only specify an identity (account ID or account alias) that belongs to his account’s site. If a specified identity does not belong to that site, it will be replaced with an identity provided by an administrator.

• Always – The identity value supplied by the remote party will always be overridden. This allows you to manually specify the display number and / or the display name for an account.

Batch

This allows you to specify a batch (this field is only available when If Different From All Accounts In The Specified Batch has been selected).

Huntgroup

This allows you to specify a huntgroup (this field is only available when If Different From All Accounts In The Specified Huntgroup is selected).

Site

This allows you to specify a site (this field is only available when If Different From All Accounts In The Specified Site is selected).

Identity

Here you can specify a default value that will replace the account identity (or display number) when the identity used for the call in the RPID / PAI headers (or From header) is invalid. If not specified, the account ID will be used instead.

Override Display Number

This allows you to control the “Caller number” value that will be placed in the From: header and typically displayed on the called party’s phone display. The possible values are:

• Never – The display number supplied by the remote party is not restricted and therefore will not be modified. This allows the remote IP phone or IP PBX to supply any CLI / ANI number.

• If Ruled Out By The Identity Constraint – The validity of a display number supplied by a remote party is verified according to a rule set for identity. For example, when the If Different From Account ID And Aliases option is selected in the Override Identity list, and the display number supplied by the remote party doesn’t match the ID of the account that is authorized for the call or any of the aliases assigned to this account, the display number will be overridden.

• If Different From The Used Identity – The display number supplied by the remote party (in the From: header) will be overridden if it is different from the used (already checked and / or overridden according to the Override Identity constraint) caller identity.

• Always – The display number supplied by the remote party will always be overridden. This allows you to manually specify the display number for an account.

Override Display Name

This allows you to override the caller name used by the calling account. The possible values are:

• Never – The display name supplied by the remote party is not restricted therefore it will not be modified. This allows the remote IP phone or IP PBX to supply any display name

• Always – The display name supplied by the remote party will always be overridden

Paging / Intercom

Paging / Intercom

This allows you to enable the intercom feature for accounts under this customer.

An end user can dial a special service code before a phone number to establish an intercom connection (two-way communication using phone’s loudspeakers) with a colleague (within the same IP Centrex).

For information about how to configure Paging / Intercom Prefix, please see the Service Codes table on the Dialing Rules Wizard page.

Dialing Rules

Dialing Rules

This permits you to enable / disable the dialing rules for this customer.

Dialing Format

• Select one of the existent dialing rule formats. Click the Wizard icon to review the selected dialing rule.

• Select Custom Dialing Rule if you want to create personalized dialing settings for a customer. Then click the Wizard icon to open the Dialing Rule Wizard.

Translate CLI on outgoing calls

This permits you to translate the CLI number in outgoing calls based on the selected dialing format.

Translate CLI on incoming calls

This permits you to translate the CLI number in incoming calls based on the selected dialing format.

Location Information

In this section you can set the country that the end user is currently in or usually resides in (and thus this country will be treated as ‘safe’ when the system checks for fraudulent activity) and whether the end user is allowed to make calls from abroad.

Location Information

• Enabled – Select this option to provide information about the end user’s current ‘default’ country and whether they are permitted to make calls from abroad.

• Disabled – Select this option if such information must not be provided. In this case, fraud detection, if enabled, is based solely on the geo / risk profile settings.

Allowed Mobility

This option is available only when Location Information is set to Enabled.

Specify whether the end user is permitted to make calls from abroad.

• Stationary User (Permanent Location) – Select this option for residential users who may only make calls from a single country. These end users are not authorized to make calls from countries other than their default one, and outgoing calls made from other countries will be screened.

• Roaming User (Changeable Location) – Select this option for users who frequently travel to different countries.

In this case, the call will be screened if it does not meet one of the following conditions:

• The call is made from the end user’s default country.

• The call is made from countries in the No Restrictions section in the geo / risk profile specified in the end user’s product.

• The call is made from countries in the Suspicious section of the geo / risk profile, but the number of calls does not exceed the value permitted (also specified in the geo / risk profile).

Current Location

This option is available only when Location Information is set to Enabled.

Select the country from the list.

This is the user’s ‘default’ country, i.e. the country where the end user permanently resides.

Calls made from this country will be treated as safe and legitimate even if this country is on the High-Risk list of the geo / fraud profile.

Calls made from other countries by stationary end users (Allowed Mobility is set to Stationary User (Permanent Location)) will be screened.

For example, the geo / risk profile assigned to an end user lists Myanmar as a high-risk country. But when an end user moves to Myanmar for a half- year business project, Myanmar can be assigned as the end user’s current location. Thus, the end user will be permitted to freely make calls from this new location, and you won’t need to create a separate geo / risk profile for them. 

Note that if you leave this option blank, the system automatically tries to obtain its value upon first use of the account after its creation. This is done according to the following logic:

• If a geo / risk profile is defined in an end user’s product and the end user makes a call from a nonrestricted country, the system will use this country as the end user’s current ‘default’ country.

• If a geo / risk profile is not defined, the system has no source for verifying which country is considered ‘safe’ and thus treats all countries as ‘suspicious.’ Since the current location can only be automatically assigned when a country is considered ‘safe,’ the system will not be able to assign it. Therefore, all outgoing calls made by the end user will be screened.

NOTE: To permit auto detection of the account’s location, on the Configuration server web interface go to the Admin node -> the Global environment -> the VoiceFraudProtection group and enable the Assign_Primary_Location option.

Additional Info

This option works if the user’s Current Location is set to France and contains the user’s location information that will be conveyed by PortaSIP® within the “P-Access-Network-Info” SIP header to comply with EU regulations.

The value for this option must be defined in the GSTNR1R2C1C1C3C4C5XX format, where:

• GSTN is the network indication,
• R1R2 is the individual carrier code,
• C1C1C3C4C5 is the city code of the call’s origin, and
• XX are auxiliary digits (00 by default).