Next Generation Telephony Systems and Services

New Features

Reports:

• Endusers Call Details and Call summary screens now may optionally hide NULL duration and NULL billed call items
• Payments screen completely redesigned, possible to see incoming/outgoing payments, filter by group. Possibility to cancel a payment.

Administration:

• User accounts can be enabled / disabled now, no need to delete permanently

Accounts:

• Accounts can be searched by their E.164 number now
• Accounts can be searched by their web login now

Account Groups:

• Possibility to change Authentication Type for entire group
• Possible to select and perform various edit function on range of accounts specified by Serial Numbers
• Groups can be authenticated on per NAS basis

System performance:

• Summarization processes now run in background with lower priority.
• More efficient use of replication server – balance check function uses replication slave now

External Payment systems:

• Added support for 2checkout.com version 2

Radius server related features:

• System now handles Cisco NASes which mistakenly return more that one calledstation-id and calling-station-id attributes in Radius messages
• Improved speed of Radius authentication and accounting procedures by optimizing SQL queries
• Added optional feature – strict accounting which will not allow account to be accounted if its credentials don't allow authentication.
• Added support for Cisco Gatekeepers: call duration is taken from VSAs instead of acct-session-time as Cisco have different interpretaion of acct-session-timeattribute
• Added support to authenticate accounts by H.323+E.164 on Mera MVTS
• Radius server no longer needs to be started in billing directory
• Added special versions of freeradius 0.9.3 and 1.0.0

Bugfixes

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some problems with MySQL version 4.1 database server support
• Billing start script fixed
• Fixed broken image display for Resellers
• Resellers were not able to see Users list - fixed
• Fixed 2checkout.com Payment Processing return page
• Fixed possible security flaw where malicious user could access Account Group not owned by himself
• Fixed possibility to create a Company with no name

Other changes

Other features:

• Billing Manager now available as standalone product in multi-site version
• Added feature to perform various functions to Billing Manager via HTTP request: get balance, add account, get rate etc. Feature intended to support devices without Radius support, e.g. Asterisk softswitch as described in this reference: http://www.asterisk-support.ru/Members/litnimax/HowTo/
• Added daily charge fee support
• Added optional script which can perform account balance fix in case it has got corrupted

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