1. Release Notes
  2. New Features in ECB 4.0.0

2 New Features in ECB 4.0.0

The ECB 4.0.0 release delivers the following enhancements and new features to improve the functionality, look, and behavior of the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker (OECB) software.

  1. TCP Timers
  2. Global SIP Timers
  3. Configuration to Establish Authentication by TACACS Only
  4. AD Routing Support on ECB
  5. HA Interface Redundancy
  6. SIP Digest Authentication For INVITE

TCP Timers

The OECB includes timing capabilities for inbound connections that the remote peer initiated, meaning that the remote peer sent the first SYN message. You can configure timers that define timing surrounding TCP connections, including maximum idle time for a connection before the system consider the connection inactive. This support is available in software versions P-Cz3.3.0p1 and above.

Global SIP Timers

Global SIP Timers The OECB includes SIP timers that define the transaction expiration times, retransmission intervals when UDP is used as a transport, and the lifetime of dynamic TCP connections. These retransmission and expiration timers correspond to timers defined in RFC 3261. This support is available in software versions P-Cz3.3.0p1 and above.

Configuration to Establish Authentication by TACACS Only

You can configure the OECB to restrict access authentication to the TACACS function, thereby enhancing system security. This support is available in software versions P-Cz3.3.0p1 and above.

AD Routing Support on ECB

This feature extends ECB's LDAP and Active Directory behavior in an environment where ECB needs to validate the numbers associated to the same attribute such as msRTCSIP-Line. This behavior is seen in environments where you have a IPBX and are integrating with Skype for Business (SfB) or Micorsoft Teams. This feature enables ECB 4.0.0 :
  • Peforms a request to the LDAP AD, to route the incoming calls to SfB, Teams or any UC Service and compare it with IPBX based on the response from the AD.
  • Allows you to perform a multi-stage validation of the msRTCSIP-OptionFlags field to know if the user has a Microsoft Lync Voice account.
  • Allows you to configure lookup queries using the « msRTCSIP-Line » and « “msRTCSIP-OptionFlags” with regular-expression to check the active status of the connection.
  • The new GUI field Operation Type allows you to change the logic of an LDAP query from "or" to "and", and also the ability to recurse through multiple LDAP look-up queries. The default value is "or".

HA Interface Redundancy

The High Availibility (HA) Interface Redundancy feature in ECB 4.0.0 is an enhancement to the existing feature. ECB 4.0.0 now supports configuration of HA over the Wancom2 port. The Wancom1 and Wancom2 ports, if available in the hardware, provide redundancy if one of the two ports fail.

SIP Digest Authentication For INVITE

ECB 4.0.0 allows the SIP digest authentication for SIP INVITE and REFER in addition to the current support for the REGISTER method. The GUI field Methods attribute in the SIP-authentication-profile allows you to configure the authentication for the SIP INVITE and SIP REFER.