
Interoperability 113
IP Telephony Configuration Guide
Gatekeeper
The Business Communications Manager is designed to interoperate with any H.323v2 gatekeeper,
with the Business Communications Manager supporting both Direct (GatekeeperResolved) and
Routed (GatekeeperRouted) call signalling in this mode of operation. Note that if the call
signalling method is changed, the Business Communications Manager must be restarted before it
functions properly.
Asymmetrical Media Channel Negotiation
By default, the Business Communications Manager IP Telephony gateway supports the G.729
codec family, G.723.1, G.711
µ
-law and G.711 A-law audio media encoding. Because NetMeeting
does not support the H.323 fastStart call setup method, NetMeeting can choose a different media
type for its receive and transmit channels. However, Business Communications Manager IP
Telephony gateway does not support calls with different media types for the receive and transmit
channels and immediately hangs up a call taken with asymmetric audio channels. In this case, the
party on the Business Communications Manager switch hears a treatment from the switch
(normally a reorder tone). The party on the NetMeeting client losses connection.
To solve this problem, in NetMeeting, under the Tools, Options, Audio, Advanced, check
Manually configure compression settings, and ensure that the media types are in the same order
as shown in the Business Communications Manager media parameters table. Table 17 on page 113
lists the names used by the Business Communications Manager local gateway table and the
matching names in NetMeeting.
No feedback busy station
The Business Communications Manager VoIP gateway provides call progress tones in-band to the
user. If a a busy station is contacted through the gateway, the gateway plays a busy tone to the user.
However, as NetMeeting does not support fastStart, no speech path is opened to the user before the
call connects. Because of this, the user on the NetMeeting station does not hear a busy signal from
the gateway.
Table 17 Name comparison
Business Communications Manager media
parameters table MS NetMeeting
G.723.1 6.3 Kbit/s MS G.723 6400 bit/s
G.723.1 5.3 Kbit/s MS G.723 5333 bit/s
G.711
µ
-law CCITT
µ
-law
G.711 A-law CCITT A-law
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