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Gatekeeper Features

Value Added Features

Centrex Services

  • Centralized administration and maintenance
    - Closed User Groups (Virtual PBX)
    - Logical grouping of users
    - Localized short number dialing
    - Subscriber level dialing privileges and restrictions for making inter-group calls
  • Extensive Digit Manipulation Algorithms
  • Flexibility to inter-work with other service providers
    - Multiple routes for the same destination
    - Least cost routing
    - Automatic Alternate Routing and Failure Backup
  • Pre-paid interface
    - Configure routes as pre-paid or post-paid
    - Integration with 3rd party pre-paid engines

Hunt Groups

  • Ability to host/support services such as helpdesk and customer care
  • Sequential line hunting
    - Prioritized list for attempting to connect calls
  • Uniform distribution
    - Agent login-logout
    - Calls handled in round-robin fashion uniform distribution

H.450 Supplementary Services

  • Call Transfer
  • Call Forward
  • Call Hold
  • Call Waiting
  • Message Waiting Indication
  • Name Identification

Security and Authentication

  • Support H.235 standard-based security
  • RADIUS and Cisco Access Token Security

Basic Feature Set

The Aricent Gatekeeper provides the following basic services:

Registration (RAS)/ Zone Management:

  • Registration of H.323 endpoints
  • Definition of zones/registrations on a range of IP and Alias addresses
  • Support for Gatekeeper discovery (GRQ/ GCF) procedures

Address Translation

  • Translation of "alias" addresses to "transport" addresses
  • Interface with a LDAP server for address translation lookup
  • Building applications doing INAP based lookup for routing decisions

Bandwidth Management:

  • Simultaneous processing of calls
  • Control and management of usable bandwidth
  • Assign user priority

User Authentication and Authorization:

  • Local user profile database
  • Interface with relevant user profile database
  • Integration of RADIUS support as BES for advanced authentication mechanisms

Signaling mode

  • Gatekeeper routed call signaling mode
  • Direct endpoint call signaling mode

 

Last updated : March 16, 2006

 

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