This is an official announcement of PortaSwitch Maintenance Release 17.

PortaOne support team now starts installing it to the staging systems of selected clients. Please contact support to schedule the update of your system.

Below is a short summary of the new features available in the MR17:

Adaptive routing	Dynamic measurement of vendor’s quality parameters (ASR, ALOC, PDD, etc.) with ability to receive alarms or remove a route from the routing plan when quality falls below the specified threshold
Customized account/customer info	Administrator’s ability to define, edit, and validate a set of extra attributes (e.g. driver’s license ID or tax code) to extend any standard PortaBilling100 information
Improved customer self-care interface	Dashboard for the customer self-care interface, to conveniently present the most important billing and service information (with the special focus on various IP Centrex features)
Enhanced account management	Ability to manually terminate a whole customer with all its accounts
Group pickup	Ability to answer a call ringing on another’s phone by dialing a special code from your phone
Web administration improvements	Web administration page for creation and management of virtual PortaSIP instances
Presence services	This allows users to keep others informed of their status, availability, and how they may be contacted – all before a communication session even begins.
Call forward management	IVR application for self-managemant of the call forwarding by an end-user
Improved callback application	Callback application to automatically register your CLI in the system for the future use
Spanish language support	Support for the Spanish language in the PortaUM management IVRs and pre-paid card application

A complete copy of the MR17 New Features Guide can be found on the top of the Documentation page.