Description
The Virtualized MRF is the software foundation for Radisys’ media processing products and solutions, including the MPX-12000 MRF and Virtualized MRF.
Features
- Carrier-class media processing features in a Software Product Offering
- Standards-based IMS MRF compliance for VoLTE and RCS
- Media Processing for OTT communications
- Virtualization support for cloud deployments
- Support for WebRTC services
- Based on MPX Operating Software (MPX-OS)
Benefits
- Scalability delivered through multiple COTS or ATCA platform options
- Optimized software media processing performance – even under high load
- Minimized total cost of ownership
- MPX-OS foundation supports common capabilities, codecs, management, and control interfaces across Radisys MPX product family
Revenue Generating Applications
- VoLTE
- Rich Communication Services (RCS)
- Unified Collaboration and Multimedia Conferencing
- Virtualized MPaaS (Media Processing as a Service) for cloud communications
- WebRTC services
- WebRTC to SIP interworking
- Enterprise VoIP and UC
- Specialized conferencing applications, including financial trading
- VoiceXML-based IVR & Messaging
- IP Contact Centers
- Voice Quality Enhancement (VQE)
- Edge transcoding for FMC and LTE-nonLTE access
Specifications & Datasheet Download
Capacity
- Entry-level systems starting at 50 ports
- Scalable to thousands of ports (dependent on compute platform)
Control Interfaces
- SIP (RFC 3261)
- SIP (RFC 4117) for 2-party transcoding
- Netann (RFC 4240)
- SIP with VoiceXML 2.0 (some VXML 2.1)
- SIP with Media Server Markup Language
- (MSML RFC 5707)
- Media Control (RFC 6230) with MSML Package
- H.248.1 v2
- RESTful APIs¹
Co-Residency
User-configurable Linux processor affinity for co-resident applications
VoLTE and RCS
- MMtel / 3GPP compliant MRF
- Compliance with GSMA IR.92 and IR.94
Multimedia Conferencing
- Voice–activated video switching (video conferencing)
- Continuous presence video conferencing (4-way)
- N-way audio mixing across all supported codecs (including HD audio)
- Cascaded conference mixing
- Loudest N mixing and preferred speaker
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC), and programmable gain control
- Current speaker notification
- Whisper feature
- Personalized mixing for each participant (e.g. for complex call center mixing models, network gaming, voice chat, etc.)
Multimedia Announcements and Tones
- Audio and video announcements (supports multimedia ringback tone applications)
- Multiple languages (40+) for Sets and Variables
- Set Announcement Features (e.g. same prompt in multiple languages)
- Variable Announcement Features (e.g. date, time, currency, etc.)
- Caller-specific announcement volume control (AGC and programmable gain)
- DTMF detection and generation
- Inband, RFC 2833, Redundant RFC 2833
Multimedia Recording and Playback
- Recording / playback – audio-only, video-only, audio/video
- VCR Control (pause/resume, skip forward, skip back)
- Internal and external storage (NFS/HTTP)
- RTSP 1.0 supported for video and audio playback
- Programmable Text and icon overlay (over video stream)
Voice Quality Enhancements (VQE)
- Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC)
- Noise Reduction, Noise Gating, Noisy Line Detection
- Packet Loss Concealment
- VQE Statistics
IP-IP Transcoding
- 3rd party control of transcoding using SIP (RFC 4117), SIP with MSML (RFC 5707), or H.248¹
- Inline Transcoding supported using SIP Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA)
- IP-IP Transcoding integrated with VQE, gain control, and DTMF transcoding
Fax
- Fax Detection & Notification
- Embedded Fax Server (Send/Receive)
- T.38 or G.711 (T.30 Passthrough)
- Fax over HTTP
Speech
MRCP v1.0 and v2.0 support with 3rd party speech servers for:
- Text-to-speech (TTS)
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
Media Support
Video Codecs
- H.263 (RFC 2190), H.264 (RFC 3984 – MPEG4 part 10)
VP8 (for WebRTC)
MPEG4 Part 2
H.265¹
VP9¹
Specs
- QCIF to 720p, 1080p¹
- Up to 2 Mbps per stream
- Up to 30 fps
Audio Codecs
- HD codecs: G.722, AMR-WB, OPUS, SILK¹
- baseband codecs: G.711, G.729AB, AMR-NB
- Mid-call audio codec changes between NB and WB modes
- Voice activity detection, silence suppression, comfort noise generation
- 5ms packetization for minimized delay
- Advanced Jitter Buffer Configurability
Stream Connection
- Full transcoding, transrating, and rate matching
- Packet forking, switching, and media replication (fan out) in support of applications such as Lawful Intercept
Media over IP
- RTP, RTSP streaming, RTCP, RTCP-XR, SRTP, Secure RTCP (SRTCP), RTP Redundancy (RFC 2198)
- IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack support
IP QoS
- DiffServ/ToS Markings (RFC 2474)
- Adaptive or programmable jitter buffer
Security
SSH v1 and v2, SFTP, IPSec, HTTPS
Media Storage
- For announcements, recordings, ringback tones, fax, and other multimedia content
- Audio/Video Container Formats: WAV, QuickTime™, 3GP
- TIFF Fax Storage Format
- Internal storage: Dependent on storage space on compute platform
- External storage: unlimited (via NFS/HTTP)
Network Interfaces
- 100/1000 BaseT Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)
- VLAN Tagging
Redundancy
Ethernet/NIC Bonding
Network Management
- Full management, configuration, and provisioning supported via SNMP v2c, v3 and/or web-based element management tools
- Permission levels by user role, Audit trail of user actions, password aging
- RADIUS authentication for Web UI access
- Rich alarms, logs, and statistics
Operating System Required
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 6.4 (64 bits), or Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bits)
Virtualization Support
- KVM
- VMware (including vMotion support)
Platforms Supported
- Radisys ATCA Compute Module
- Dell R620
- IBM BladeCenter HS22
- HP Proliant BL 460c G6
- HP Proliant DL 360 G8
- Cisco UCS B200 M3
- Professional Services available to certify Software MRF on new COTS platforms
