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XT5000/XT4300/XT4000/XTE240 Series
Version 8.3.2.526
Scopia® Solution 8.3FP2
June 2015

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  • Page 1 ® Release Notes for Avaya Scopia XT Series ® For Scopia XT7000 Series ® For Scopia XT5000/XT4300/XT4000/XTE240 Series Version 8.3.2.526 Scopia® Solution 8.3FP2 June 2015...
  • Page 2 If you of their registered owners. are unable to locate a copy, please contact Avaya Inc. and a copy will be provided to you. This publication is AVAYA Confidential & Proprietary. Its use is pursuant to your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    How to Upgrade XT Series to this Release ................63 Downgrading from this Release ..................65 Resolved Issues ........................66 Known Issues ........................68 Common Remote Control Shortcuts ..................74 Additional References ......................78 Copyright, Licensing and Credits ..................79 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Scopia® XT Series Highlights | 3...

  • Page 4: Scopia® Xt Series Highlights

    Scopia® XT Series Highlights Avaya offers a complete range of advanced HD video conferencing room systems. Our complete range of dedicated Scopia® XT Series video conferencing endpoints lets you experience exceptional video conferencing in any environment. Leverage leading, powerful video communications technology to deliver an unparalleled video collaboration experience, from immersive telepresence, to conference room systems.

  • Page 5: Advanced Settings Menu

    The XT Graphical Menu items available in the path [GUI] > Configure > Advanced can be found also inside the XT Web Interface Menu, tab 'Administrator Settings'. This tab is always enabled in the Web Interface. Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Scopia® XT Series Highlights | 5...

  • Page 6: What's New

    Figure 2: Scopia® XT7100 Scopia® XT7100 Room System is the new generation Avaya’s flagship product in the Scopia® XT7000 Series of room systems. Scopia® XT7100 incorporates dual 1080p/60fps live video and content, HD audio, point to point calling using H.265 (which offers the same high resolution experience using nearly half the bandwidth), H.264 baseline and High Profile, all three available...
  • Page 7 H.265 implementation in SIP follows RTP Payload Format for High Efficiency Video Coding (draft-ietf-payload-rtp-h265-09). H.265 implementation in H.323 is Avaya Proprietary. H.265 SVC implementation in SIP/H.323 is Avaya Proprietary. Optional Camera You can connect an optional camera (HD2) to the XT7000 Codec Unit to have different views of your room.
  • Page 8 Series to replace a single HD camera with up to four HD Cameras or four generic HDMI devices (such as DVD and generic media players). The Avaya Scopia XT Camera Switch is fully powered and controlled from the Avaya Scopia XT5000 or XT7000 Series. The switch can be controlled from XT User Interface and Remote Control.

  • Page 9: Scopia® Xt4300

    Picture: Automatic*/ Manual[ with Saturation, Hue, Contrast, Brightness]  Wide Dynamic Range: Off/1,2,3*,4,5 (*default values) Important Some manual camera parameters now have an "Adjust" button (for instance Focus mode, Exposure Compensation, etc.). What’s New | 9 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 10 FP2. This new implementation significantly improves customer experience when recalling saved presets. Attention Please note that when updating XT4300 v8.3.2.56 to this new version all previously set presets will be lost and must be re-configured. What’s New | 10 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 11: Scopia® Xte240

    It is now possible to click with the mouse on the mute button in the GUI title bar to toggle audio mute.  The Full screen option activated with the mouse right click is applied to the window under the mouse cursor. What’s New | 11 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 12: Screen Link And Mobile Link

    Screen Link and Mobile Link Screen Link and Mobile Link are two Avaya technologies that allow easy pairing between a Scopia® Desktop client for Windows/Mac and a nearby Scopia® XT Series Endpoint that are connected to a network. The pairing can be used to share computer desktop with an XT endpoint, locally or in a meeting for Screen Link, or to easily transfer audio/video/presentation from the Scopia®...
  • Page 13 When a DVI cable is connected while a Screen Link is active, the DVI connection is used instead of the Screen Link (physical DVI plug has precedence over Screen Link). What’s New | 13 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 14 Mobile Link is enabled by default on XT side, and a PIN is required by default for a manual pairing. Figure 14: Scopia® Desktop Client for Windows: Mobile Link activation What’s New | 14 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 15 The PIN will be displayed on XT screen for a couple of minutes. Press back on XT remote control to dismiss the PIN earlier. What’s New | 15 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 16 You need to allow ingoing connections from XT to Scopia® Desktop Client (port 8554, TCP) on your computer. When the firewall alert below appears on your computer, press "Allow access". What’s New | 16 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 17 Select Settings, Advanced Tab  Scroll down to Screen Link /Mobile Link Volume Level.  Increase it (70%-80% max should suffice)  Press ok and try again to generate the sound What’s New | 17 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 18 Check if there are ultrasonic sources in the room (fans or other devices).  If the performance is low even if the acoustic generation is active, try to adjust the volume in the Scopia® Desktop application (see previous section). What’s New | 18 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 19 If the icon is not present, Right Click directly on the Windows Taskbar -> Choose “Task Manager -> Processes Tab”, (if present) select “CuCore.exe” and push the “End Process” button What’s New | 19 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 20 [Mobile Link] On Scopia® Desktop Client, open Log Folder menu, retrieve the last CALL_LOG-DATETIME.xml file. [Mobile Link] On Scopia® Management, retrieve the log pack from the toolbar -> Support Log Pack, as the snapshots below. What’s New | 20 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 21 [Screen Link / Mobile Link] On XT, retrieve the XT CS Package ([Web] > Diagnostics > Utilities > Customer Support Package: press Create and click on the newly created package) What’s New | 21 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 22: Sip Enhancements

    Note that proxy/registrar fields have been unified in a single configuration field (Server DNS Name). The status of the registration can be checked in [GUI] > C > S ONFIGURE YSTEM TATUS > H OME PAGE Figure 20: SIP Server Registration What’s New | 22 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 23 Temporary Maximum Media Stream Bit Rate Request (TMMBR, 'timber') to request a sender to limit the maximum bit rate for a media stream to or below, the provided value, without using re- invites, thus reducing IOT issues. What’s New | 23 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 24 TMMBR Configuration SIP NetSense NetSense is a proprietary AVAYA technology which uses a sophisticated prediction technique to adapt the bandwidth used to a lower rate before packet loss actually affects call video quality. As the available bandwidth of a connection varies depending on data traffic, NetSense dynamically scans the video stream, and then reduces or improves the video resolution to maximize quality with the available bandwidth.
  • Page 25 > A > P >SIP>A DMINISTRATOR ETTINGS ROTOCOLS DVANCED  BFCP UDP: UDP Ports can be configured to be automatically assigned or manually set. Figure 25: Outbound BFCP Configuration What’s New | 25 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 26 If received an OPTION with a TAG set on the To header, even if the OPTION is not supported a 200 OK response is sent instead the previous 501 error. This transaction does not affect the dialog. What’s New | 26 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 27: Presentation Enhancements

    Always – Gallery Layout will always be sent by Scopia® MCU. In case where there are two screens connected, one will show the Gallery Layout and the other screen will show the local self-video. What’s New | 27 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 28 For instance, if XT is presenting at 1080p and one participant is able to receive 1080p while the others are able to receive 720p, one presentation encoder will transmit content at 1080p, while the other will transmit at 720p. What’s New | 28 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 29 This will assure the best content sharing experience for the meeting, as only the participants on low quality links will be impacted by the errors on the network. Figure 30: Low Quality Link Impacts on Single Participant What’s New | 29 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 30: Graphical User Interface (Gui) Enhancements

    Note that the default input mode for dial address field is now numeric. Also the call details page has been revised and simplified. Figure 33: Number Field in Call Page What’s New | 30 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 31 > I/O C > A > D DMINISTRATOR ETTINGS ONNECTION UDIO NPUTS IGITAL OR NALOG UDIO  Ignore Mute: set to 'Yes' Figure 36: Mute Not Applied to Audio Input What’s New | 31 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 32: Recording And Playback Enhancements

    When recording, the number of calls in a hosted meeting is up to 6. Do not remove the USB storage while recording. In this version it is possible to record to USB storage also encrypted calls. The content is not encrypted. What’s New | 32 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 33 The playback automatically stops when exiting from the playback page. Figure 39: Playback Panel and Icons During a playback, a simplified playback panel allows the following actions, using the XT remote control: What’s New | 33 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 34 Press Save when done. Figure 40: Customize Recording Audio Messages Important Max audio message length is 15 seconds. Longer messages will be truncated. Customized audio messages are lost in recovery mode upgrades. What’s New | 34 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 35: Contacts Enhancements

    Contacts from a remote directory are represented by a 'book' icon. Figure 42: Searching in Favorites and Remote Contacts Important Only one remote LDAP Server can be selected at a time. What’s New | 35 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 36 If the entry is already present, a notification will be displayed. Figure 43: Add a New Favorite Figure 44: Save a Remote Contact as Favorite Figure 45: Save a Call as Favorite What’s New | 36 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 37 It is also possible to specify a different automatic answer policy when receiving incoming calls from trusted contacts. This way, the XT Codec Unit will auto-answer only to trusted endpoints and ask to confirm others. What’s New | 37 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 38 ETTINGS YSTEM PRESS ERVER  Select the Type 'Remote H.350 (third party)' option.  Configure Server IP Address, Password and Port accordingly. Figure 49: Third Party Remote LDAP Server What’s New | 38 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 39: Embedded Mcu Enhancements

    Default Lecturer Layout: default layout when hosting a meeting, in lecturer mode. To activate lecturer mode, browse to participants, select a participant and press 'Make lecturer' button. Figure 50: MCU Preferences What’s New | 39 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 40 Max Calls: change to the maximum number of calls allowed Important When these limitations are set, they are shown in the Web interface. Figure 52: Web Page Showing MCU Limitations What’s New | 40 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 41: Privacy Mode: Send Image Or Hide Video

    Presentation could be received as Main Video. When a Presentation is sent by XT, the 'Hide Video' option for the Presentation is ignored, and the privacy image might be transmitted also for live video What’s New | 41 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 42: Web Enhancements

    Customizable Images XT Series provides a basic license to customize some system images. These images can now be viewed, downloaded, changed or reset to default ones using the Web interface. What’s New | 42 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 43 .wav, .wma…) They will be internally converted to .pcm. An error is returned if the format is not supported Max message length is 15 seconds. Longer are truncated. Customized messages are lost in recovery mode upgrades. What’s New | 43 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 44 > U > R > W ONFIGURE DVANCED TILITIES EMOTE CCESS > A > U > R > W DMINISTRATOR ETTINGS TILITIES EMOTE CCESS Figure 56: Session Inactivity Timeout What’s New | 44 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 45 Figure 58: Certificate Information Important In this version it is also possible create a Certificate request using an FQDN / DNS name in place of the XT IP address. What’s New | 45 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 46: Password Protected Download

    In this version it is possible to protect with a password download of files that can be exported by XT through direct access to the web Figure 60: Enable download by password Important When download of files is password protected, Scopia® Management configuration export is not allowed. What’s New | 46 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 47: Traffic Shaping Option

    Please note that enabling Traffic Shaping can cause NetSense technology to detect network congestion conditions; Traffic Shaping can also lower the frame rate or introduce latency, especially on the presentation data. Figure 61: Traffic Shaping Option What’s New | 47 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 48: Enhancements

    Needed range of UDP/TCP dynamic ports is now calculated according to the max number of remote participants, considering MCU and XTD active licenses.  Graphical adjustment can be applied also to live video  Added support for ASUS VN248 (monitor on/off) What’s New | 48 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 49: Software Upgrade Enhancements

    Scopia® Management, AT Commands, HTTP or using an USB key. When a password is set for software upgrade, software downgrade will fail with message "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" ACK_RECV 10054 What’s New | 49 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 50 Do not close browser / change page until the procedure is completed.  Progress while uploading / upgrading is shown  Wait for XT to restart  Login again Web Upgrade – Step by Step Figure 64: What’s New | 50 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 51 What’s New | 51 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 52 Chrome: version 31 or higher Chrome for Android: version 38 or higher Safari and iOS Safari: version 7.1 or higher Opera (excluded Mini): version 25 or higher Android Browser: version 4.4 or higher What’s New | 52 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 53: Diagnostic Enhancements

    Save: Stores the captured data in a package. The previously saved tracks can be downloaded before creating a new package.  AudioAnalyzer Package: Download a package containing captured audio tracks. Figure 66: AudioAnalyzer Menu What’s New | 53 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 54 All the captured tracks are for R&D debugging purpose only; they are encrypted and cannot be played for security and privacy reasons. License Info Enhancements When registering XT to Avaya PLDS, a Host ID is needed in the License Host Information page: XT Mac Address in the format XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX XT Serial Number...
  • Page 55 In this version it is possible to see call detailed reports in the Web interface. The table can be sorted in ascending or descending order clicking on any column header. Table content can be exported as "comma separated values" text file (English only). What’s New | 55 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 56 > C IAGNOSTICS ETAILS Figure 71: Call Details To open the exported file in Microsoft Excel, follow these steps:  Launch Excel, select the file to open as Text file. What’s New | 56 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 57 As Delimiters, clear Tab and select Comma. Press Next.  Set the Column data format to Text. Scroll the data Preview window and select at least the first five columns. Press Finish What’s New | 57 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 58: Xt Command Interface Enhancements

    IP address.  SSH Enabled: Yes, username is fixed to atadmin.  Password: default 1234, can be changed. Figure 72: SSH options in AT Commands Page What’s New | 58 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 59 The web page provides also the possibility to save the console session in a file. Figure 73: Web AT Console Important The console is available only if the AT commands are enabled over IP in the XT host for the Web client. What’s New | 59 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 60 Telnet Configuration 8.3.2 New command to configure WEB video 8.3.2 Extended SF SY SA HD2 and XT camera switch video input management; Extended camera preset/PTZ commands Added recording/Playing status What’s New | 60 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...
  • Page 61 New command to read recent calls list 8.3.0 Extended Added held down buttons for remote control emulation 8.3.0 Extended Added do not disturb status info 8.3.0 New command to manage do not disturb What’s New | 61 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series...

  • Page 62: Integrating With Other Components

    ® * Scopia Management V8.3 is required for Roster integration and Calendar and Gallery Layout. ® * Scopia Elite 6000 MCU V8.3 is required for Gallery Layout. Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Integrating with Other Components | 62...

  • Page 63: How To Upgrade Xt Series To This Release

    Maintenance Contract. The codec can in any case work in preview mode without a license for 30 days (Power ON time – countdown is suspended when the system is OFF). Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series How to Upgrade XT Series to this Release | 63...
  • Page 64 Before Upgrading it’s always suggested to back-up the previous system configuration from Diagnostics > Utilities > Configuration > Export. For any issue appearing when using this software package please contact Avaya Customer Support (http://support.avaya.com) providing  the system CSPackage (Web > Diagnostics> Utilities >Customer Support Package: press Create and save the newly created package) ...

  • Page 65: Downgrading From This Release

    In particular:  XTE240 cannot be downgraded to versions earlier than 3.1.1.  Avaya Branded XT Endpoints cannot be downgraded to versions earlier than 8.3.0.61.  XT4300 cannot be downgraded to versions 8.3.0 or earlier.  XT7000 cannot be downgraded to versions earlier than 8.3.2.2xx Release Notes for Avaya Scopia®...

  • Page 66: Resolved Issues

    Management Server Time Zone is Negative (GMT -X) or displayed with a wrong start time. Fixed issue where in MCU SIP ‘Presentation’ is sent in H.264 (not in H.264 RVXT5000-1000 HiP) Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Resolved Issues | 66...
  • Page 67 RVXT5000-947 SR# 1-5738684692 become local video. RVXT5000-923 Embedded MCU: Avaya Communicator (Flare) windows does see only the video from only XT5000 and not from other conf participants. RVXT5000-878 XT5000embeded: After exist with a XT5000 from an embedded XT5000 conf video is not received RVXT5000-819 "Today"...

  • Page 68: Known Issues

    Known Issues Avaya performs effective testing of each software version. Patch software may be available to fix known issues of this software version. Please contact Avaya’s Customer Support Service for further information. This section details the list of known issues for this version. Issues are common to Scopia® XT Series.
  • Page 69 The XT doesn't display the message to QC#26789 be in call hold when Flare iPad is put in JIRA-57114 hold Using Polycom MGC50 (v 8.0.2.6) QC#2766 sometimes H.239 presentation does not Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Known Issues | 69...
  • Page 70 Configure > Advanced > Protocols > QC#26201 issue when placing SIP TLS calls. SIP > TLS > Enabled =No RVXT5000-1239 Audio call icon shown in embedded MCU with Polycom Group Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Known Issues | 70...
  • Page 71 The physical link does not establishes Connect the cable and then setting both C2960 version 12.2(44) and configure the settings on XT only XT in Manual for speed and duplex Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Known Issues | 71...
  • Page 72 CS. RVXT5000-1236 The video window is not removed from A hot fix for this issue is available MCU layout if the first call is in video through CS. privacy Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Known Issues | 72...
  • Page 73 Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Known Issues | 73...

  • Page 74: Common Remote Control Shortcuts

    Remote Control Unit, then press 5 to set it to 50 Hz or 6 to set it to 60 Hz. Use this shortcut only when no call is active  Press and hold the 'call' key to toggle Do Not Disturb Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Common Remote Control Shortcuts | 74...
  • Page 75 [New] Press and hold the 'near/far' key to mimic the function of the 'inputs' key on the Advanced Remote Control. Caution Do not disconnect or power off the system to switch off. Press and hold the 'on/off' key on the Remote Control. Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Common Remote Control Shortcuts | 75...
  • Page 76 Presets from 110 to 119: pressing 'memo'/'select' then # and 0/9  Preset 120 pressing: 'memo'/'select' then # and *  Preset 121 pressing: 'memo'/'select' then # and # Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Common Remote Control Shortcuts | 76...
  • Page 77 Caution Do not unplug or power off the system to switch off. Press and hold the 'on/off/monitor' key on the Remote Control (top-right key). Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Common Remote Control Shortcuts | 77...

  • Page 78: Additional References

    To search the Scopia Knowledge Base, see http://support.avaya.com or directly at http://kb.avaya.com  For more information about Administering Avaya Video Conferencing Solution, see https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100172067  ® For more information about the complete set of products offered in the Scopia Solution, http://www.avaya.com...

  • Page 79: Copyright, Licensing And Credits

    Third Party Open Source License Agreements and Commercial License Agreement for ® Scopia Products are available at http://support.avaya.com/Copyright  Scopia® XT Series devices include AAC-ELD technologies licensed by Fraunhofer IIS; see http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series Copyright, Licensing and Credits | 79...

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