Howto:DE - EWE - business DSL voice plus SIP-Provider (2018)
Summary
Tests for the business_DSL_voice_plus SIP trunk product of the provider EWE were completed. Test results have been last updated on July 10th, 2020. Check the history of this article for the date of the first publication of the testreport.
The provider doesn't offer the possibility to test the SIP-trunk regularly and automatically (e.g. before firmware releases). As a result, we do not know if it will still work or will work with different firmware than the one we tested with.
Tested Firmware: 13r1 Service Release 8
<internal>Provider SBC: ewetel/oldenburg-(prod)</internal>
Remarks
The provider doesn't offer the possibility to test the SIP-trunk regularly and automatically (e.g. before firmware releases). As a result, we do not know if it will still work or will work with different firmware than the one we tested with.
Tested Firmware: 13r1 Service Release 8 (132195)
List of Issues found in media-relay Configuration
- CONN NR INCOMING
- Incoming calls from the PSTN don't show a correct connected number to the calling party.
- EARLY MEDIA INBOUND
- The provider does not support early-media (i.e. establish RTP-stream before 200 OK/connect) for calls to the PSTN.
- FAX T38
- The provider does not fully support T.38 fax
- REDIR DIVHDR
- The provider does not support maintaining the original caller ID for redirected calls (e.g. CFU) when the original caller is present in a
Diversion:
header. - REDIR HISTHDR
- The provider does not support maintaining the original caller ID for redirected calls (e.g. CFU) when the original caller is present in a
History-Info:
header. - SIP INFO
- The provider does not support conveying DTMF using the SIP-INFO method.
Here is the list of test-cases that have been performed for this provider: 180_RINGING, BASIC_CALL, CLIR, CLNS_ONNET, CLNS, CONN_NR_DIFF, CONN_NR_INCOMING, CONN_NR, DTMF, EARLY_MEDIA_INBOUND, FAX_AUDIO, FAX_T38_ONNET, FAX_T38, FAX_T38ANDAUDIO, G711A_ONNET, G711A, G711U_ONNET, G711U, G722_ONNET, G722, G729_ONNET, G729, HOLD_RETRIEVE, IP_FRAGMENTATION, LARGE_SIP_MESSAGES, MOBILITY, OPUS_NB, OPUS_WB, RALERT_DISC, REDIR_302, REDIR_DIVHDR, REDIR_HISTHDR, REVERSE_MEDIA, SDP_ICE, SDP_RTCP_MUX, SDP_VIDEO, SIP_INFO, SRTP_INCOMING, SRTP_INTERNAL, SRTP_OUTGOING, SUBSCRIBER_NR, XFER_BLIND, XFER_CONS_ALERT, XFER_CONS_EXT, XFER_CONS
Test Results
This SIP provider requires a media-relay configuration. That is, all media traffic between the SIP provider and all endpoints must flow through the SBC. For this reason, a configuration without media-relay has not been tested and hence no test results for this configuration are listed.
Configuration with media-relay
- Registration
- The provider supports only UDP as transport protocol. As a result, the SIP-communication is not encrypted(TLS). Moreover it requires all involved network elements to support IP-fragmentation.
- NAT Traversal
- The provider detects clients behind NAT and can handle calls to them without requiring the clients to use NAT-traversal methods like STUN.
- DTMF (RFC2833)
- The provider can convey DTMF digits using the RTP payload method as per RFC2833.
- Session Timer
- The tests regarding the SIP-session timer were successful. This means that either no session expiry is used or that it is used and works. It does not imply that session expiry actually is used.
- Redundancy
- Registration of two SIP-interfaces on the same SIP-account is supported by the provider. However, the provider has no failover mechanism if one device is down. As a result, you can use both SIP-interfaces for load-balancing purposes. If one device is down, for 600 seconds incoming and outgoing calls might be rejected/fail.
- Correct signalling of Ringing-state
- OK
- CLIR
- OK
- Clip No Screening (CLNS)
- Straight clip no screening (i.e. sending a foreign number as calling line id) works fine. As this works anyway, it does not matter, if the provider supports the interpretation of
History-Info:
orDiversion:
SIP headers for providing the correct calling line id for diverted calls. This provider supports call redirection using the SIP 302 Redirect header. Rerouting can be enabled by setting the Reroute supported check-mark in the corresponding Trunk object configuration. Also, the Interworking check-mark must be set in the route used for calls from and to the SIP provider.
- However, this configuration is not strictly required, as the provider supports clip no screening so that redirected calls (i.e. call forwards to external numbers) will show a proper calling line id (CLI) at the receiving party anyway. However, it may be useful anyhow to get rid of externally forwarded calls on the SBC entirely.
- COLP
- Outbound calls to the PSTN show the correct connected number. However incoming calls from the PSTN do not.
- A caller from the PSTN will receive an incorrect connected number that differs from the dialled number. This might lead to the caller cancelling the call.
- For outbound calls to the PSTN, an update of the connected number is not signalled to the caller.
- Early-Media
- The provider does not support early (that is, before connect) media for outbound calls to the PSTN (hence no inbound early media). This may be an issue in cases where such media is played to the caller (e.g. when calling an unavailable mobile phone).
- Fax
- Transport of faxes to/from the PSTN via G.711 codec was tested successfully.
- Transport of faxes using T.38 worked to onnet destinations. However it failed to PSTN destination. Fallback to audiofax worked.
- As a result, T.38 is enabled on the SIP-interface, the use of audio-fax is necessary.
- Codecs
- supported to/from PSTN: G711A
- supported onnet (VoIP to VoIP): G711A and G722
- IP-Fragmentation
- OK
- Large SIP messages
- OK
- Reverse Media Negotiation
- OK
- Mobility Calls
- Transmitting DTMF-tones as SIP-INFO messages is not supported, however mobility calls are still possible as in the media-relay configuration, the SBC will convey DTMF signalling to the PBX.
- SRTP
- The provider does not support audio encryption using SRTP.
- Dialing of Subscriber Numbers
- OK
- Call Transfer
- OK
Configuration
Use profile DE-EWE-business_DSL_voice_plus in Gateway/Interfaces/SIP to configure this SIP provider.
- A most recent v13r3 firmware is required to use this SIP-profile. For hints regarding upgrade to v13r3, see Howto:V13_Firmware_Upgrade_V13r2_V13r3
New profiles are added in the course of our V13R3 software Service Releases, see Reference13r3:Release Notes Firmware. Here is an up to date list of tested SIP providers.
Disclaimer
These tests look at a number of interoperability scenarios between innovaphone SIP devices and a given SIP trunk product. As we are enhancing our testing procedures, nature and number of these tests will vary.
All test results document the fact how the tested combination performs in the tested scenario. It explicitly does not comment on the question what the reason is for the behaviour nor if and how it could be changed. It thus does not imply that either the SIP trunk provider or the innovaphone device fails in any way. It merely says that the combination does not perform as defined by the test.
If not mentioned otherwise, all tests are repeated on a weekly basis (a.k.a. nightly tests) using the then-current innovaphone firmware. If a tested combination keeps performing differently from the state documented here during nightly tests, we reserve the right to update this article accordingly.
Some tests do not have consistent results. This may occur for various reasons. If so, we document the tests result as being unstable.
Some of the tested SIP trunk products are not available for nightly tests. In this case, the fact will be noted in the Summary section.