2022 Updates

1 November 2022
2 August 2022
3 July 2022
4 June 2022
5 May 2022
6 March 2022
7 February 2022

November 2022

Non-Recurring Charge (NRC) / Monthly-Recurring Charge (MRC) Enhancements for Invoicing:

The MRC and NRC feature is can now be implemented for Auto Invoices. A Relationship’s Invoice tab now includes NRC and MRC checkboxes for Auto Invoices. These checkboxes are only visible when Auto Invoice is enabled.

MRCs line items will only be added to the first invoice in the calendar month between the Invoice’s start date and end date even if the invoice is weekly or some other non-monthly frequency. Any additional invoice in the calendar month would not include the MRC line items.

From the Relationship’s Balance/Payment tab, NRCs can be created and assigned as a One Time Only Charge or with an Annual, Bi-Annually or Quarterly Charge Frequency.

The Invoice sections titled "Account NRC Profile" and "Account MRC Profile" have been changed to "Account NRC Charge" and "Account MRC Charge".

Both Account level and DID Level NRC/MRC will be automatically deducted from the balance at the time of invoice creation.

Taxation Enhancements for Invoicing:

When the Compliance Solutions Inc. (CSI) taxation method is used for invoices, the invoice will now show specific line items for each tax description and tax authority name per jurisdiction instead of just showing the total amounts.

Customers can now add a CSI API token to calculate the taxation based on their CSI account. The token can be added on the General Settings page in the CSI Integration section.

Stir/Shaken Vendor Side Blocking:

This feature provides the ability to block calls to specific vendors when an identity token is not included in the SIP Invite or when the Stir/Shaken provider is not configured or is unable to provide an Identity header. This feature is configured on a Termination Vendor Trunk Group.

The previous Stir/Shaken behavior was to fail the call if a Stir/Shaken provider was configured but was unable to provide an Identify header. The new default behavior is to forward the call without the Identity header. Use the Block Unsigned Treatment if you do not want to this call to be sent to the Termination Vendor Trunk Group.

Customer Maximum Rate:

This feature enables the ability to put a limit on customer rate deck/routing by defining a maximum rate beyond which the call to a destination is immediately blocked. The purpose of this feature is to prevent prepaid customers from spamming calls to high cost & low margin destinations when their balance is near zero. The customer Maximum Rate can be configured on a Termination Routeplan in the Routeplan Options section. If the customer rate in the Rate Deck for the called destination is higher than the configured Maximum Rate, then the Orchestrator will immediately return a SIP 503 Max Rate Exceeded to the Origin.

General Improvements and Bug Fixes:

Fixed Sorting on all Rate Deck Generator Pages.
Fixed an editor issue with a black background not showing the correct color in templates.
Added a new column “Last Distributed” on a Relationship’s Rating page and the Rating Overview page showing the date and time when a rack deck was last emailed when Requires Confirmation is enabled.

Replaced the username with the company name in trunk group configuration notification emails.
Improved email validations when adding new Subscriber, Relationship and Agent Contacts to allow for any top-level domain in the domain portion of the email address.
Added the ability to select Not Applicable (N/A) for the Interstate and Intrastate rates for Prefix Jurisdictional Rate Decks when mapping CVS header names to Rate Deck Column names. The design intent to control the types of Jurisdictional calls that can be sent to a specific vendor.

Only two of the three rate types can be set to N/A at a time.

The Orchestrator now properly resets the Max-Forwards header on SIP Re-Invites when the Reset Max Forward option on a Termination Customer and Origination Vendor Trunk Groups is enabled. Previously the option only reset the Max-Forward header on the original SIP Invite.
The Orchestrator now longer automatically enables SRTP on Trunk Groups configured to use TLS as the signaling protocol. Although it is common practice to use SRTP in conjunction with TLS, there is no requirement to do so and the Orchestrator no longer enforces such a requirement. The Orchestrator’s user interface can now be used to fully control when TLS and/or SRTP can be configured.
The Orchestrator now passes a Geolocation header if present in a SIP Invite. This header can be used by Emergency Response Service Providers to identify the caller’s location.
The Orchestrator now supports SIP messages with multipart/mixed Content-Types. An SDP (Content-Type: application/sdp) and a Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) (Content-Type application/pdf+xml) can exist in the same SIP message. This allows the Orchestrator to route calls to Dynamic Location Router enabled Service Providers.
The Jamaica Area Code 658 was added to the Global NANPA prefix list.
Fixed a rare issue when uploading a Rate Deck that fails (e.g. due to bad headers in the csv file) would cause the vendor not to be associated with the previous Rate Deck. This prevented the vendor from being considered in the termination route rules.

There will be an addition of 1 new field to the CDR in the November Update

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August 2022

DNC List: The National Do Not Call Registry is a list of phone numbers from consumers who have indicated their preference to limit the telemarketing calls they receive. The DNC list will be loaded into a 46 Labs managed database and will be updated bi-weekly due to the non-automated availability of the list. On the 1st of every month the list will be refreshed with a full global list and on 15th it will be updated with change-log only.
- The DNC will show up a new option in TO section of the Rule Builder. Customer will be able to create a new Rule which will either allow them to Block calls to this number list or route to subset of vendors.
TG Level Blocking: Added new functionality to block customers from sending traffic too specific or ALL vendors while also allowing the ability to block vendors from receiving traffic from specific customers or ALL customers. This Feature is currently only going to available for termination and domestic calling only.
- Allowed Digits are: 1+ NPA, 1+NPANXX, 1+full number
- Can be used in conjunction with (for international termination) the Vendor Destination Exclusion feature that is found in Global Routing.

SBC Mode: Added a new feature that will allow the Peeredge SoftSwitch to act as mid-registrar between SIP phones and PBXs. The feature will allow registration attempts to the PBX in order to cache the register message and only send when needed.