Multitech Multivoip 100 Model Mvp110 Voice/fax Over Ip Networks User Guide

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Installing Your MVP110 Software
The following installation procedures do not provide every screen or option in the process of installing
the MVP110 software. It is assumed that a technical person with a thorough knowledge of Windows
and the software loading process is doing the installation. Once you have installed the software, you
will be instructed on how to configure your MVP110, and finally, on how to deploy your MVP110.
Additional information on the...

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4. The MVP110 Setup welcome dialog box displays.
Press Enter or click Next to continue.
5. The Choose Destination Location dialog box displays. Follow the on-screen instructions.
You can either choose the Destination Location of your MVP110 software or select the default
destination by clicking Next. If you click Browse, you can select a different destination folder for the
MVP110 software.
6. In the Select Program Folder dialog box, select where you want...

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of the MVP110. From the Select Port list, choose the COM port of your PC.
Click OK to continue.
8. The Setup Complete dialog displays.
Click Finish to continue.
9. The following message displays:
Click Ye s to continue.
10. The following message displays.
 Click Ye s to continue.         

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Configuring Your MVP110
The following steps provide instructions for configuring your MVP110. The configuration sequence includes IP
Protocol default setup, Channel setup, and Phone Directory Database setup. The Phone Directory Database
setup is configured differently depending on whether or not the Gatekeeper function is available and enabled on
the Phone Directory Database dialog box.
11. The IP Protocol Default Setup dialog box displays.
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15. The Voice/Fax tab displays the parameters for the voice gain, DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-
Frequency) gain, voice coder, faxing, and advanced features such as Silence Compression,
Echo Cancellation, and Forward Error Correction.
16. You can set up the input and output voice gain so that the volume can be increased or
decreased. Input gain modifies the level of the audio coming in to the voice channel before it is
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silence is detected, thereby reducing the amount of network bandwidth that is being used by the
voice channel.
If Echo Cancellation is enabled, the MVP110 will remove echo which improves the quality of
sound.
The Forward Error Correction (FEC) feature allows some of the voice packets that were
corrupted or lost to be recovered. FEC adds an additional 50% overhead to the total network
bandwidth consumed by the voice channel.
20. The Billing/Misc tab...

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of the jitter buffer directly effects the voice delay between MVP110 gateways.
The Minimum Jitter Value default setting is 150 milliseconds, the Maximum Jitter Value default
setting is 300 milliseconds, and the Optimization Factor default setting is 7.
If your country/region is not the default USA, click the Regional tab and proceed to step 25;
otherwise, proceed to step 26 to begin building your phone directory database.
25. To change the Tone Pairs on...

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Registering with a Gatekeeper Phone Directory
This section describes how to register H.323 endpoints with the Gatekeeper. The H.323 Gatekeeper
function resides at a PC acting as the central point for all calls within its zone and providing call
control services to registered endpoints. The Gatekeeper performs two important call control
functions: address translation from LAN aliases to IP addresses, and bandwidth management where
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33. Leave the Description box blank.
34. Enter the Voice Channel number corresponding to the phone number entered.
35. Fill in the H.323 ID box with a description to identify the phone number. For this example, you
could enter “New York Office”.
36. Enter the IP Address of the MultiVOIP you are currently configuring in the IP Address box.
37. Click OK when you are finished and the Phone Directory Database dialog box displays with
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 Building a Proprietary Phonebook Directory
27. To build your proprietary MVP110 Phone Directory (in an H.323 environment without the
Gatekeeper option enabled), you will first need to select the Proprietary Phonebook option and
then configure the “Master” MVP110 and then the “Slave” MVP110s (or other H.323 endpoints).
Configuring the “Slave” MVP110 is discussed later in this chapter.
The first MVP110 to be configured is designated the “Master” and...