DEFINITY® Enterprise Communications Server What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 Copyright 2001 Avaya Inc. All rights reserved. For trademark, regulatory compliance, and related legal information, see the copyright and legal notices section of this document. Copyright and legal notices Copyright Copyright 2001 by Avaya Inc. All rights reserved. This material is protected by the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. It may not be reproduced, distributed, or altered in any fashion by any entity (either internal or external to Avaya), except in accordance with applicable agreements, contracts or licensing, without the express written consent of the BCS Product Publications organization and the business management owner of the material. This document was prepared by the Product Publications department of the Business Communications Systems division of Avaya. Offices are located in Denver CO, Columbus OH, Middletown NJ, and Basking Ridge NJ, USA. DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 iii Copyright and legal notices Trademarks DEFINITY, AUDIX, CONVERSANT, elemedia, SABLIME, Talkbak, Terranova, WaveLAN, MERLIN, MERLIN LEGEND and GuestWorks are registered trademarks and 4ESS, 5ESS, Intuity, OneMeeting, OneVision, PacketStar, PathStar, ProLogix, Lucent, Lucent Technologies, and the Lucent Technologies logo are trademarks of Lucent Technologies. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks and Video for Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc. X Window System is a trademark and product of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hewlett-Packard and HP are registered trademarks of the Hewlett- Packard corporation. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Workstation, and Solaris (computer and peripherals) are registered trademarks and Solaris (operating system utilities) and Java are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Adobe, Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, Distiller, Acrobat Exchange, Adobe Type Manager, PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. Limited warranty Avaya provides a limited warranty on this product. Refer to the “Limited Use Software License Agreement” card provided with your package. Avaya has determined that use of this electronic data delivery system cannot cause harm to an end user's computing system and will not assume any responsibility for problems that may arise with a user's computer system while accessing the data in this document. Every effort has been made to make sure that this document is complete and accurate at the time of release, but information is subject to change. DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 iv Copyright and legal notices United States FCC Part 68: Answer-Supervision Signaling. Allowing this equipment to be operated in a compliance manner that does not provide proper answer-supervision signaling is in violation of information Part 68 Rules. This equipment returns answer-supervision signals to the public switched network when answered by the called station, answered by the attendant, or routed to a recorded announcement that can be administered by the CPE user. This equipment returns answer-supervision signals on all DID calls forwarded back to the public switched telephone network. Permissible exceptions are: when a call is unanswered, when a busy tone is received, or when a reorder tone is received. Canadian This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emissions set Department of out in the radio interference regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications interference Communications. Le Présent Appareil Nomérique n’émet pas de bruits information radioélectriques dépassant les limites applicables aux appareils numériques de la class A préscrites dans le reglement sur le brouillage radioélectrique édicté par le ministére des Communications du Canada. Preventing Toll “Toll fraud” is the unauthorized use of your telecommunications system by an Fraud unauthorized party (for example, a person who is not a corporate employee, agent, subcontractor, or working on your company’s behalf). Be aware that there may be a risk of toll fraud associated with your system and that, if toll fraud occurs, it can result in substantial additional charges for your telecommunications services. Avaya Fraud Intervention: If you suspect that you are being victimized by toll fraud and you need technical assistance or support, call the Technical Service Center’s Toll Fraud Intervention Hotline at 1-800-643-2353. DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 v Copyright and legal notices Providing Telecommunications Security Telecommunications security (of voice, data, and/or video communications) is the prevention of any type of intrusion to (that is, either unauthorized or malicious access to or use of your company’s telecommunications equipment) by some party. Your company’s “telecommunications equipment” includes both this Avaya product and any other voice/data/video equipment that could be accessed via this Avaya product (that is, “networked equipment”). An “outside party” is anyone who is not a corporate employee, agent, subcontractor, or working on your company’s behalf. Whereas, a “malicious party” is anyone (including someone who may be otherwise authorized) who accesses your telecommunications equipment with either malicious or mischievous intent. Such intrusions may be either to/through synchronous (time-multiplexed and/or circuit-based) or asynchronous (character-, message-, or packet-based) equipment or interfaces for reasons of: • Utilization (of capabilities special to the accessed equipment) • Theft (such as, of intellectual property, financial assets, or toll-facility access) • Eavesdropping (privacy invasions to humans) • Mischief (troubling, but apparently innocuous, tampering) • Harm (such as harmful tampering, data loss or alteration, regardless of motive or intent) DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 vi Copyright and legal notices Be aware that there may be a risk of unauthorized intrusions associated with your system and/or its networked equipment. Also realize that, if such an intrusion should occur, it could result in a variety of losses to your company (including but not limited to, human/data privacy, intellectual property, material assets, financial resources, labor costs, and/or legal costs). Your Responsibility for Your Company’s Telecommunications Security The final responsibility for securing both this system and its networked equipment rests with you – an Avaya customer’s system administrator, your telecommunications peers, and your managers. Base the fulfillment of your responsibility on acquired knowledge and resources from a variety of sources including but not limited to: • Installation documents • System administration documents • Security documents • Hardware-/software-based security tools • Shared information between you and your peers • Telecommunications security experts DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 vii Copyright and legal notices To prevent intrusions to your telecommunications equipment, you and your peers should carefully program and configure your: • Lucent-provided telecommunications systems and their interfaces • Lucent-provided software applications, as well as their underlying hardware/software platforms and interfaces • Any other equipment networked to your Avaya products Avaya does not warrant that this product or any of its networked equipment is either immune from or will prevent either unauthorized or malicious intrusions. Avaya will not be responsible for any charges, losses, or damages that result from such intrusions. Intellectual property related to this product (including trademarks) and registered to Lucent Technologies Inc. has been transferred or licensed to Avaya Inc. Any reference within the text to Lucent Technologies Inc. or Lucent should be interpreted as references to Avaya Inc. The exception is cross references to books published prior to April 1, 2001, which may retain their original Lucent titles. Avaya Inc. formed as a result of Lucent’s planned restructuring, designs builds and delivers voice, converged voice and data, customer relationship management, messaging, multi-service networking and structured cabling products and services. Avaya Labs is the research and development arm for the company. DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 2 February 2001 viii Contents Copyright and legal notices iii Contents ix About this Document xvii Overview . xvii Audience . xvii How to order more copies . xviii How to get help . .xix Tell us what you think . xx 1Global 1 Avaya Directory Gateway — Administration Change Notification. 1 Overview . 1 Administration . 2 DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 1 November 2000 ix Contents ATM WAN Spare Processors (WSP) . 4 Overview . 5 Description. 5 Administration . 6 Maintenance . 12 Firmware Download . 14 Overview . 14 Description. 14 Administration . 15 New Hardware . 17 Increased Memory Capacity . 18 Overview . 18 Description. 19 Step-by-Step . 20 IP Asynchronous Links. 23 Overview . 23 Description. 23 Additional Highlights . 25 Hardware Requirements . 25 Administration . 25 DEFINITY ECS What’s New for Release 9 555-233-766 Issue 1 November 2000 x Contents Avaya R300 Remote Office Communicator . 29 Overview . 29 Description. 29 Administration . 30 Maintenance . 33 Station Used as Virtual Extensions . 34 Overview . 34 Description. 34 Administration . 35 UDS1 with Echo Cancellation . 36 Overview . 36 Description. 36 Administration . 37 Global Power Supply. 38 Overview . 38 Description. 39 Hardware Requirements . 40 Mobility Enhancements . 41 Cluster ID Administration . 41 Increased Radio Controller Capacity. ..