Specifications

11. IP Office Video Softphone
IP Office Matrix - Release 8.1 (2)
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• Automatic selection of the best codec based on the other party’s capability, the available
bandwidth, and network conditions. The softphone switches the codec within a call in response to
changing network conditions.
• Integration with a SIP deskphone, so you can use either the deskphone controls or screens t
o
c
ontrol a phone call
• Compliance to 3261 SIP standard.
• Support for these firewall traversal solutions: STUN, TURN, or ICE.
• The IP Office Softphone includes an icon to indicate your do not disturb status. The icon can be
clicked to change the status.
• A Speed Dials tab is available. It contains buttons to which you can assign numbers to dial and
name labels. For buttons that match another extension number, the button color indicates when
that user is busy.
• You can send an Instant Message (IM) to a contact who has a softphone or XMPP address. The
IP Office Softphone allows you to send IMs to individuals or broadcast groups, and also supports
IM conferencing and chat rooms (including ad-hoc group chat). In addition, you can send files to
a user who has an XMPP address.
•
XMPP compliance as follows:
o RFC 3920
o RFC 3921
Supported extensions:
o XEP-0004
o XEP-0016
License Requirements
Use of IP Office Softphone requires the IP Office system to contain the following licenses:
• System Licenses
For IP Office Release 7.0 and higher, the system must have Essential Edition and Preferred Edition
licenses.
• User Licenses
Use of IP Office Softphone requires the IP Office configuration to contain sufficient Teleworker
and/or Power User licenses for the number of configured IP Office Softphone users. To be valid,
th li t t h th i l b f th IP Offi t ' f t k
Provisioning
IP Office Video Softphone forms part of the Teleworker or Power User profile. A user can log onto
the IP Office Video Softphone using their normal username and password. License entitlement
will be checked against that user before the login is accepted.
Unlike Avaya hard phones, IP Office Video Softphone does not require an Avaya IP Phone License
to work on IP Office.
While the IP Office Video Softphone is a thick client application, it is extremely easy to install and
provision. Installation of the application on a standard PC requires minimal to no configuration
as all provisioning of the product is done from the IP Office as a provisioning server.
If a DHCP server is present and set up correctly, Softphone will completely configure itself. The
user only needs to enter the username and password to get connected.
If DHCP is not available, the user needs to enter a single IP address of the IP Office; all other
parameters will be set automatically.
Softphone can be set up so that, when the PC starts up, the application is automatically started
with the default username and password. The user can disable automatic login as well as