
Phone Reference
Internet Protocol (IP) Softphones
Administrator’s Guide for Avaya Communication Manager
599
November 2003
Internet Protocol (IP) Softphones
IP Softphones can turn a PC or a laptop into an advanced telephone. Using the Internet Protocol (IP)
network, you can place calls, take calls, and handle calls on your PC. With certain exceptions, every
feature available for wired-endpoint voice calling is available for IP-based calling; it supports
internetworking with conventional circuit-switched stations and trunks.
There are three softphone models that are fixed at the time of purchase and do not change afterward:
•
Avaya IP Softphone (for additional information, go to http://www.avaya.com/support, click on
Telephones and End User Devices
, then scroll down to
IP Telephony
)
•
Avaya IP Agent (for additional information, go to http://www.avaya.com/support, click on
Call
Center/CRM
, then scroll down to
IP Agent
)
•
Avaya Softconsole (for additional information, go to http://www.avaya.com/support, click on
Call
Center/CRM
, then scroll down to
IP Telephony
)
The connection for the end-point is supported whether the customer is directly connected using a network
inter-face card (NIC) or the customer has dialed into their network using a dial-up point-to-point (PPP)
account. The connection is managed via a registration session with the Avaya server. The call server
manages the voice connection directly to a circuit-switched telephone (Telecommuter configuration),
directly to an IP Telephone (Control of IP Telephone configuration), directly to a DCP digital telephone
(Control of DCP Telephone configuration), or over UDP/RTP to the IP Softphone’s iClarity IP Audio
H.323 audio end-point (Road Warrior or VoIP configuration)
At any time, an end user can put a softphone into one of the following modes by changing a software
menu:
•
Road-Warrior (Voice over IP (VoIP))
•
Telecommuter
•
Native H.323 (only available with Avaya IP Softphone R2)
•
Control of IP Telephone (only available with IP Softphone R4 and later)
•
Control of DCP Telephone (only available with IP Softphone R5 and later)
NOTE:
Beginning with the November 2003 release of Communication Manager, R1 and R2
IP Softphone and IP Agent, which use a dual connect (two extensions) architecture, are no
longer supported. R3 and R4 IP Softphone and IP Agent, which use a single connect (one
extension) architecture, continue to be supported. This applies to the RoadWarrior and the
Telecommuter configurations for the IP Softphone. Native H.323 registrations for R1 and
R2 Softphones continue to be supported.
Road-warrior mode
The road-warrior (VoIP) mode enables travelers to use Communication Manager features from temporary
remote locations, such as a hotel room. The road-warrior configuration uses two separate software
applications running on a user’s PC that is connected to Communication Manager over an IP network.
The single network connection carries two channels: one for call-control signaling and one for voice. IP
Softphone software handles the call signaling and an H.323 V2-compliant audio application such as
Avaya iClarity, which is installed with Avaya IP Softphone Release 3 and later (or a third-party
application, like Microsoft
®
NetMeeting
®
) handles the voice communications. The user’s PC provides
the audio connection via a microphone and speakers.
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