Specifications

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Release Notes for Cisco 7000 Family for Cisco IOS Release 12.1 T
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New and Changed Information
Ecosystem Gatekeeper Interoperability Enhancements
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series routers
The Ecosystem Gatekeeper Interoperability Enhancements feature supplements the existing support for
alternate gatekeepers and adds support for the alternate gatekeeper field (altGKInfo) to the gatekeeper
rejection (GRJ) and registration rejection (RRJ) messages. This allows a gateway to move between
gatekeepers during the gatekeeper request (GRQ) and registration request (RRQ) phases.
The altGKInfo consists of two subfields: the alternateGatekeeper and the altGKisPermanent flag. The
alternateGatekeeper is the list of alternate gatekeepers. The altGKisPermanent flag indicates whether
the gatekeepers in the associated alternateGatekeeper field are permanent or temporary.
If the current state of altGKisPermanent flag is true, then the new altGKInfo of any registration,
admission, and status (RAS) messages received from one of the alternate gatekeepers is accepted, and
the new list replaces the existing list.
If the current state of altGKisPermanent flag is false, then the altGKInfo of any RAS messages received
from one of the alternate gatekeepers is ignored.
If the current permanent gatekeeper becomes nonresponsive and the altGKisPermanent flag is set to
false, then the gateway sets the internal state of the altGKisPermanent flag to true. This setting enables
the gateway to accept the alternate gatekeeper list from one of the gatekeepers in the existing alternate
gatekeeper list.
The handling of the altGKInfo field varies depending on whether it is included in a GRJ or an RRJ
message.
Gateway-to-Gatekeeper Billing Redundancy
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series routers
The Gateway-to-Gatekeeper Billing Redundancy feature enhances the accounting capabilities of the
Cisco H.323 Gateway and provides support for Vocaltec Gatekeepers. The Gateway-to-Gatekeeper
Billing Redundancy feature provides redundant billing information to an alternate gatekeeper if the
primary gatekeeper to which a gateway is registered becomes unavailable.
During the process of establishing a call, the primary gatekeeper sends an admission confirmation
(ACF) message to the registered gateway. The ACF message includes the user billing information and
an access token. To provide the billing information to an alternate gatekeeper if the primary gatekeeper
is unavailable when the call session ends, the access token information sent in the ACF message is now
also included in the disengage request (DRQ) message that is sent to the alternate gatekeeper.
This features enables the alternate gatekeeper to obtain the billing information required to successfully
complete the transaction.