Polycom ViewStation SP128 Instruction Manual

February 2005 1
3725-22561-001/A
Release Notes
ViewStation/SP, Version 7.5.4
Polycom is pleased to announce the version 7.5.4 software release for Polycom
ViewStation and ViewStation SP systems.
What’s New in This Release?
Polycom software release 7.5.4 is available as a free software update for
ViewStation/SP customers. Version 7.5.4 includes all of the features of version
7.5.2 and addresses the issues described in the Corrected Issues table.
Corrected Issues
The following table lists issues corrected in version 7.5.4.
Feature Corrected Issue
Address Book Address Book entries made with an older ViewStation were
sometimes displayed or dialed with the wrong speed. This
issue has been corrected.
API After going to sleep, a ViewStation system might not respond
to API controls. This issue has been corrected.
The reboot command returned an error instead of restarting
the system. This issue has been corrected.
Cosmetic issues and inconsistencies with the “screen
speeddial” command have been corrected.
Audio An audible noise was sometimes heard with a multipoint call
downspeed. This issue has been corrected.
When an audio call was added to a video call, an echo
sometimes occurred after some time in the call. This issue
has been corrected.
Boot Up Registration with certain gatekeepers sometimes caused a
reboot. This issue has been corrected.
Cameras Sony EVI-D10 cameras connected to ViewStation systems
had some problems with automatic camera tracking. This
issue has been corrected.
H.320/H.323 A ViewStation system sometimes rebooted if another system
hung up while Visual Concert PC was still sending. This
issue has been corrected.

Release Notes
ViewStation/SP, 7.5.4
2
H.323 iPower systems did not display the ViewStation system
name when in an iPower MCU conference. This issue has
been corrected.
ViewStation and ViewStation SP setup messages to
PathNavigator did not send an H.323 extension. This issue
has been corrected.
Interoperability
Firewalls
ViewStation systems were not sending a carriage return,
before a newline character, to firewalls. This issue has been
corrected.
Interoperability
MGC
ViewStation systems went into secondary status when
switching between an H.261 video conference and an H.263
video conference configured on the MGC. This issue has
been corrected.
ViewStation systems sometimes incorrectly displayed a
"Join to conference" message when an MGC conference
was ended. This issue has been corrected.
ISDN, BRI A ViewStation SP384 might reboot repeatedly when the
ISDN protocol was changed from 5ESS to ETSI or vice
versa. This issue has been corrected.
UI The system went to sleep while on the near screen, or when
toggling between the near screen and main screen when in
a POTS call, even when the user did not want this behavior.
You can now prevent this behavior if you FTP a file named
sleeponnear.dat with the word No in it.
When a system was configured for IP only, but registered to
a gatekeeper for gateway calls, the default selection on the
dialer screen was IP. This is now (or CAN be) set to Auto for
gateway calls.
You can now use a comma as a delimiter when entering an
IP address.
The Telephone link appeared on the main screen of a
ViewStation system even when Telephone was not enabled.
This issue has been corrected.
ISDN-only ViewStation systems unnecessarily prompted
users to choose between IP and ISDN when dialing. This
issue has been corrected.
When a ViewStation system was configured to call out using
ISDN only and the call failed, the system attempted to dial IP
through Global Management System. This issues has been
corrected. Failed ISDN calls no longer roll over to IP when
the secondary dialing preference is set to None.
The Menu icon on the Dialing Speeds screen linked to the
home screen instead of to the H.323 Setup screen. This
issue has been corrected.
Montserrat was misspelled in country list on the ViewStation
system UI. This issue has been corrected.
Feature Corrected Issue

Release Notes
ViewStation/SP, 7.5.4
3
V.35 ViewStation V.35 systems did not answer calls in manual
answer mode. This issue has been corrected.
If the answer dialog box timed out, the system would not
notify the user of incoming calls again until an outbound call
was made. This issue has been corrected.
Video Video encoders generated PAL video problems with some
endpoints. This issue has been corrected.
Uniform display was bad on the receiving system when a
PAL system sent proper temporal reference values. This
issue has been corrected.
Visual Concert PC When using Visual Concert PC with a ViewStation system
the error message “The far site does not support Visual
Concert PC” sometimes appeared even though content was
sent without any problem. This issue has been corrected.
Web UI Users were unable to change the ISDN number of a V.35
system from the web interface. This issue has been
corrected.
Status balls did not always appear in the web interface when
making a call from a ViewStation V.35 system. This issue
has been corrected.
Using the Web UI, the "%" symbol was not displayed with
Closed Captioning. This issue has been corrected.
On the "Imux Setup" screen of the web interface, the ISDN
Numbers, Dialing Speeds, and Advanced Dialing links
reloaded the page incorrectly. This issue has been
corrected.
Changing the language in Web UI updated the system UI
only after restarting the system. Now the system UI changes
to the new language as soon as you switch screens.
The Country Code field in the web interface was editable,
but it is now correctly displayed as read only.
Cosmetic issues and inconsistencies between the web UI
and system UI have been corrected.
Feature Corrected Issue

Release Notes
ViewStation/SP, 7.5.4
4
Feature Limitations
The following table lists known limitations with the product.
Upgrading to 7.5.4
Refer to your ViewStation User Guide for instructions and information about
updating the ViewStation system software.
Copyright Information
© 2005 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved.
No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written
permission of Polycom, Inc.
Trademark Information
Polycom®, the Polycom logo design, and ViewStation® are registered trademarks of
Polycom, Inc. Global Management System™, iPower™, MGC™, PathNavigator™,
Visual Concert™ PC, and VSX™ are trademarks of Polycom, Inc.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
Feature Limitation
H.323 Calls will not connect when an iPower system calls into a
ViewStation SP system with an improperly configured
gatekeeper. Calls from other systems, such as a
VSX system or ViewStation FX, connect properly to a
ViewStation SP system with the same configuration.