This article highlights the new features and updates of our QORUS Enterprise 7, which was released to enhance the performance and capabilities of Speakerbus products, with the aim of improving our solution stack to meet the demands of clients and third parties.
Our solutions have been enhanced with these updates to more effectively cater to the needs of our financial clients and partners.
Privacy (when activated) prevents other users from barging in on a call. Privacy can be set / unset by a user at any point during a call by pressing the Privacy function key. The introduction of a Handset Privacy default option allows the user (or system admin in iManager) to pre-set the initial state of all new calls to be either Privacy On or Off, depending on their preferred selection.
Speakerbus' Record on Demand (RoD) feature, introduced in Enterprise 4, is a distinctive voice recording tool. It allows authorized users to choose which calls to record. For users with RoD enabled, recording is initially set to "off," but can be activated before or during a call. Recording stops automatically at the end of the call unless the user selects RoD again.
Inverted Record on Demand is a new choice where recording is set to “on” by default and may be switched off prior to a call or at any point during a call, to stop recording. At the end of the call, recording resumes for all future calls, unless the user selects RoD again.
All recordings are captured in the usual manner via a third-party voice recorder platform.
AYRE's acoustic processing parameters have been modified to enhance the audio quality for the unit's speakers. Additionally, an acoustic limiter has been implemented to provide additional gain to the speakers without negatively impacting the echo cancellers.
Further improvements have been made to the handling of received G711 packets to enhance audio levels.
A new operational mode called "Speaker Mono mode" has been specifically designed for AYRE. In this mode, all audio output is directed to both speakers simultaneously, increasing the perceived volume of the speaker.
System and user menus have been combined into a single view under the menu icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This puts all user options in a single place for ease of use and frees up space in the top-level bar for upcoming features.
*The original system menu has moved into a sub-menu of the single menu.
IPv6
The Speakerbus QORUS is now IPv6 capable and can be deployed in specific IPv6 environments, the following diagram details the deployable solution.
iCMS supports the configuration of iTurrets, Gateways, PBXs and server connections using both IPv4 and IPv6.
iG330 and iTurret can connect to services and servers using IPv4 and IPv6 protocols (depending on the service and server’s respective configuration).
iCS supports IPv4 or IPv6 exclusively and does not support both protocols simultaneously.
Connections between iCDS and 3rd Party Voice recorders currently remain at IPv4 only.
The iCDS monitor tool also continues to support IPv4 connections only.
The following Software / Firmware Versions are required as a minimum for IPv6:
iCMS Provisioning API
A major new addition for Enterprise 7 is the creation of a standards-based REST API that provides a remote admin user with access to the iCMS database through a set of https endpoints.
Initial functionality includes managing Users (Add, Edit, Delete), User Groups, User Permissions, User Policies and Templates, Read/Write programming of PBX appearances and reporting capabilities for various database entities such as Voice Services, CloudBase, Call Regions and Sites.
A special user account for API access is required and managed through iManager independently to the standard user accounts. These user credentials are then used to authenticate with the API, obtain a Token and issue commands.
iManager Enhancements
Enterprise 7 includes several changes to the iManager environment to enhance the product, augment system admin and extend our reporting capabilities. iManager enhancements include:
Based on customer feedback, a number of existing iManager reports have been updated to include extra detail and several new reports added:
Removed sa account and sysadmin requirement for iCMS database installation.
Licensing model changed from a device limit to a concurrent logged in user limit.
The iCMS database name is now customisable. It no longer has to be called the default name of “CMS”.
The iCMS database can now be hosted on Google Cloud Platform along with Microsoft SQL Server for resilient anytime, anywhere access.
For customers who wish to implement full E164 compliant numbering schemes, Speakerbus now offer support for Call/Line appearance addresses starting with a ‘+’.
Addresses starting with a “+” can co-exist with non-E164 numbers in the iManager database allowing customers to run mixed environments while they migrate between numbering schemes.
*This requires iCMS v4.000 or later
802.1x is a port based authentication standard, where a port on a switch or router is configured to initially only allow a device to communicate with an authentication server. This server is tasked with retrieving the identity of a device and confirming that it is allowed access to the network.
Once the device has satisfied the authentication server the switch then allows the device access to the rest of the network.
CM defaultfull has been replaced by a new ‘CM defaultfactory’ which will log out the user, if required, default all the CM variables (except for SOFTWARE_VERSION) to their factor settings in a safe way, delete all XML config files, delete all Cisco config files and delete any log files and any other miscellaneous files that contain historical data.
AYRE has long had the ability to perform local certificate uploads into the device using SSH, but included in the latest version of iManager is a new Certificate option located under “Deskstations”, that enables Sys Admins to remotely upload security certificates either individually or across a range of units.
The original release of AYRE made provision for the UX to run on a single dedicated CPU, but experiments indicated a performance benefit in allowing it to run across two (or more) cores.
Security Enhancements
Compatibility
Added support for iCDS:
Ended Support for iCDS
Added support for iCMS
Ended support for iCMS
Please contact your Speakerbus Account Manager for more details.