What’s New in This Release

What’s New in This Release

Most of the Release 1.5 updates do not impact installation. New material to support Release 1.5 software includes:

New system parameter PHNEMERGNUM, which allows administration of an emergency telephone number. For more information, see the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Administrator Guide.
Changes to invoking local (Craft) procedures during telephone initialization. See Accessing Local (Craft) Procedures for more information.
Release 1.5 adds two telephones, the 9630G and 9640G, to the 9600 Series. Both models have a Gigabyte Ethernet (GigE) interface to speed data transmission, but are otherwise identical to their 9630 and 9640 counterparts.
A new language, Arabic, was added to 96xx software distribution packages.
Enhanced security to defend against sequence number attacks, as per RFC 1948.
Certain 9600 Series IP Telephones now support a Bluetooth adapter and any device compatible with the Headset profile. However, this release supports only a wireless headset. Safety and installation instructions are provided with the adapter and headset and are also available on the Avaya support Web site.

Release 1.5 supports functionality introduced on Avaya Communication Manager Release 4.0. Call server administration of four key parameters is directly downloaded to the telephone during registration, instead of or in addition to, from the settings file or locally on the telephone. The four parameters are: SNMP community string, SNMP Source IP Addresses, Craft Access Code (PROCPSWD), and Group ID. The first three parameters are system parameters, while the fourth parameter is administered on a station-by-station basis.