Monday 16 February 2009

VegaStream Announce Release 8.5 now Available

Release 8.5 Product Bulletin
We have been busy over the past few months developing the latest software release 8.5 which is now available.

There are a number of new features which have been specifically designed to enhance SIP services & to reduce the processing requirements of service provider's networks. In addition resilience & security functionality have been strengthened with the introduction of SIP TLS and SRTP.

We have some more exciting developments including some new gateway models available in the next few months. These include integrated ADSL modems and Application Servers. We will be sending out more information on these new Sproducts in the next few weeks.

If you have any questions, please contact me for assistance.

Steve Davis
EVP Global Sales and Marketing
VegaStream Group



Enhanced Network Proxy
The VRP (VegaStream Resilient Proxy) has been improved & renamed Enhanced Network Proxy (ENP). The proxy will support the ability for 120 IP phones to make telephone calls over the PSTN in situations of ADSL outages as well as supporting SIP trunking for Microsoft Office Communications Server.

Interoperability Features for the FXS ports
There are a number of new features for phones connnected to FXS ports on VegaStream gateways. These features are supported locally without support from a remote softswitch.

The new FXS features include:
> Three Party Conferenc
> Call Forwarding
> Do Not Disturb
> Executive Interrupt
> DTMF Readback of IP Parameters
> FXS 8km Drive

This builds on the high level of PBX functionality that already exists in the VegaStream gateways. The existing FXS feature set includes:-
> Call Transfer
> Distinctive Ringing
> Hunt Groups
> Call Barring
> CLIP
> T38 Fax Support
> Teleworking
[see more here]

Some other new features in 8.5 include:-
> QSIG Message Waiting Indication~
> QSIG Un-Tromboning
> SIP Call Waiting Messaging
> GSM Codec Support
> Music on Hold
> Overlap Dialling
> UDP/TCP Control

Resilience & Security Features:
> SIP Registration controlled by failover relays on Vega 400
> SNMP Version 3
> SIP TLS
> SRTP

More details are available on VegaStream's technical support website as well as the new 8.5 software.