Bardissi Enterprises Newswire

AltiGen Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATGN), the leading provider of 100% Microsoft-based VoIP business phone systems and Unified Communications solutions announced today the availability of the Max Communications Server 6.5.

Technology Enhancements:

-SNMP Management feature

-QoS enhancement (802.1p and 802.1q)

-Secured VoIP connection (TLS/SRTP)

-Enhanced 3rd party IP phone support

PBX and Voice Messaging Enhancements:

-Microsoft Exchange 2007 Integration enhancements

-Release Conference Bridge when number of participants is reduced to two

-Support 120 MeetMe conference members in one bridge (HMCP/Softswitch only)

-SIP Trunk enhancements

-Mobile Extension over SIP trunk and Mobile Extension trunk group configuration

-Import and export an extension list from or to a CSV file

Multi‐site Enterprise Manager Enhancements:

-Global extension rerouting over PSTN when WAN connection is down

-Redirect an AltiGen IP phone to an alternate server when its home server is down

Licensing Changes

The following licensing changes should be noted before you upgrade to the 6.5 release.

1. New Concurrent Session Licenses - the 6.5 release supports a dual‐mode licensing model. In addition to SEAT based licenses, the following concurrent SESSION licenses are new in the 6.5 release.

∙MaxCommunicator Session

∙MaxAgent Session

∙MaxSupervisor Session

∙IPTalk Session

 2. AltiConsole Licensing Model - The AltiConsole license is changed to a concurrent session based license in the 6.5 release. This change will affect 6.0 system upgrading to 6.5. AltiConsole license is removed from the "Client SEAT License Management" configuration.

3. License Converting rules:

 ∙5.x version of AltiConsole, AltiView, AltiAgent, AltiSupervisor, and IPTalk concurrent SESSION licenses will be converted to 6.5 version of concurrent SESSION licenses.

∙6.0 AltiConsole SEAT license will be converted to 6.5 concurrent SESSION license.

∙6.0 version of MaxCommunicator, MaxAgent, MaxSupervisor, and IPTalk SEAT license will be kept the same.

MAXCS 6.5 sends SNMP traps to report the following events to a Network Management System:

-Server memory, CPU, or hard disk exceeds defined limits

-MAXCS Switching service is initialized, stopped, or restarted

-PRI trunk goes down or reconnects

-Gateway server loses connection or restarts

-The master or a member server in the Enterprise VoIP domain goes down or reconnects

-IP phone server service goes down or restarts

-Voice mail service goes down or restarts

-CTI service (CT Proxy) goes down or restarts

-Softswitch redundancy switchover occurs

-Enterprise manager redirects IP phone to an alternate server when the home server for the IP phone is not available

QOS Enhancements

-Release 6.5 supports layer2 802.1p (class of service priority) and 802.1Q (VLAN) in the server

and AltiGen IP phones.

Secured VoIP Connection (TLS/SRTP)

This feature allows secured SIP connections and encrypted conversations to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.

-Secured connection can be configured for connection to AltiGen IP phones and SIP‐

Tie trunks.

-SIP signaling is secured by using TLS (Transport Layer Security )

-Voice media is secured by using SRTP (Secured Real Time Protocol)

Enhanced 3rd Party IP Phone Support                    

Release 6.5 supports standard SIP Hold, Transfer, Call Waiting, and server‐side Conference for certified 3rd party SIP phones.

Currently certified 3rd party phones are:

-Aastra 6731i, 6753i, 6755i, 6757i, 6757i‐CT

-Polycom SoundStation IP6000 Conference phone

Exchange 2007 UM Integration Enhancements

Release 6.5 expands the capability of Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging (UM) with the following new features:

-Option to enable voice mail synchronization in Bridged mode.

-Ability to return a call from Exchange voice mail

-Allow caller to "Zero out" from Exchange voice mail greeting

-Outlook 2007 user can click "Play on Phone" option to play the voice mail stored in Exchange through an IP phone

-AltiGen voicemail greeting is disabled when configured as Native mode integration. This eliminates the double ‐greeting when using Native mode.

SIP Trunk Enhancements

Release 6.5 has the following SIP trunk enhancements:

-MobileExtension Support over SIP trunks

-Ability to send the extension Transmitted Caller ID or system Calling Line Number through SIP

trunks.

-Ability to create multiple SIP trunk profiles to support different SIP trunk service parameters. SIP trunk profile can set the following variables for different SIP trunking services:

-Specify different ways of sending calling line ID in SIP protocol

-Define acceptable calling line ID range or a specific number

-Enable sending caller name

-Define incoming DID number field

Global Extension Rerouting over the PSTN

-When a user dials a global extension and the WAN connection to that server is down, the call initiating system dials the target system's PSTN number and sends the dialed extension number

automatically when the target's auto ‐attendant answers.

-Enterprise Manager will publish the main PSTN number of each site to all VoIP domain members for PSTN rerouting.

IP Phone Redirect to an Alternate Server

An IP phone can be configured in Enterprise Manager to automatically register to an alternate server when the phone's home server is down. Thus, the IP phone can still work under the alternate (backup) server. When the home server is recovered, the administrator can switch IP phones back to the home server from Enterprise Manager.

New Windows OS Support

-MAXCS all‐in‐one system can now be installed on Windows 2008 32‐bit.

-HMCP Gateway can be installed on Windows 2008 32‐

bit system.

-MAXCS Softswitch can be installed on Windows 2008 32bit or 64 bit. [MAXCS Softswitch on Windows 2003 64-Bit will not be supported.]

-MaxCommunicator, MaxSupervisor, MaxAgent can be installed on Windows 2008, 2003, Vista 32 ‐bit or 64‐bit editions