CTArchitect Integration and Validation in a new Telephony Environment
Introduction
Our telephony partners, MyForce, provide a telephony environment validation service and our recommendation is that clients use this. However, if your IT teams wish to configure a new environment themselves, here is a checklist for them to make sure that CTArchitect is correctly hooked up to your system.
SIP validation
- Verify SIP registration. This can be done in CTArchitect by checking the IP Registrations Window:
Note: it can take a few minutes before this registration shows up as successful. - Make test calls using the following codecs G711A and G729 (optional, if the compression option has been purchased).
- CLI masking:
- Check whether calls can be made without providing a CLI.
- Try to make a call and provide a CLI that lies outside the range of the SIP trunk.
- Check whether calls over 30 minutes are possible. Some SIP trunk providers and gateways are configured by default to cut calls over 30 minutes.
- Check basic voice quality. Is the voice clear and latency reasonable enough to have a conversation?
- Set up an international call.
- Outbound disconnect causes - it is important for CTArchitect that disconnect causes are given by out-of-band disconnect codes and that these codes are received within a reasonable time. This is especially important when using the CTArchitect as an outbound dialer. This is checked by taking Wireshark traces and looking at the SIP packets directly:
- Busy disconnect cause.
- Unused number.
- Incomplete number (too short).
- A number that is too long.
- DTMF tones. Check that the DTMF tones sent correctly and received on CTArchitect. This is done by simply listening whether DTMF tones are received on the phone.