Alcatel-lucent MEDIA RESOURCE FUNCTION DATASHEET
Alcatel-Lucent Media Resource Function
R EL E A S E 7.1
The Alcatel-Lucent Media Resource Function (MRF) is a comprehensive software product, fulfilling the role
of a powerful media server in packet-switched networks and allowing quick deployment of a range of
value-added services.
The Alcatel-Lucent MRF can be used
as either a standalone node to provide
basic announcement services, or as a
node for an IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS), Long Term Evolution (LTE), CDMA,
Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System (UMTS), next-generationnetwork (NGN) or WiMax network. As the
latter type of node, the product plays a
key role in many media-related services:
• Playing multilingual fixed and
variable audio announcements
• Playing video announcements
• Collecting dual-tone multi-frequency
(DTMF) for user interaction
• Providing audio and video conferencing, selecting the video stream,
with mixing of audio streams and
coders/decoders (CODECs) transcoding
• Performing legal interception, thanks
to its media-stream duplication
capability
The use of a full-software mediaprocessing technology provides a very
competitive solution with reduced
costs and reduced time-to-market
for feature improvements because
no digital signal processors (DSPs) are
used. The Alcatel-Lucent MRF is also
a rich application-protocol solution
that supports all major interfaces,
including Network Announcement
protocol (NETANN), Media Server
Control Markup Language (MSCML),
Media Session Markup Language
(MSML), Alcatel-Lucent Media Session
Markup Language AMSML and voice
eXtensible Markup Language
(vXML) script.
Key features
• Playback of prerecorded fixed and
variable announcements, such as
phone number, prices, date, time,
duration and integer numbers,
including in a multilingual
environment
• Textual announcements played using
optional speech synthesis, such as
text-to-speech (TTS) technology for
all supported audio CODECs
• Playback of video announcements
• Recording of audio and video
announcements
• DTMF detection: collection of user
interactions through:
¬ Out-band user-plane DTMF
detection
¬ Out-band control-plane DTMF
detection
¬ In-band DTMF detection for
CODEC G711 a-law or µ-law and
in video sessions
• Conferencing:
¬ Channel mixing for audio confer-
ence accepts any of the supported
CODECs; the necessary transcoding
is transparent to the application
¬ Video conferencing (MSCML):
accepts any of the supported
CODECs; the necessary transcoding
is transparent to the application,
the loudest speaker video stream
is broadcasted to all conferees
¬ Recording
• Lawful interception
• CODEC transcoding: conference,
announcement playback
• Collection of user interactions
through:
¬ DTMF detection: out-band
and in-band
¬ Optional speech-recognition
technology
Key benefits
• Supports multiple languages (more
than 80) and variable announcements
• Supports a variety of CODECs; the
software-based architecture also
makes it simpler and less expensive
to introduce a new CODEC than with
a DSP-based architecture
• Delivers multiservices: platform
can interact with several services
simultaneously, generating economyof-scale savings
• Fully integrates with Alcatel-Lucent
solutions
• Supports multiple application
protocols, facilitating integration
with third-party services
• Provides multinetworking: using
the Alcatel-Lucent MRF and the
Alcatel-Lucent Specialized Resource
Point (SRP), customers can broadcast
announcements over TDM and IP
networks with a single operation
• Offers high scalability: seamless
scalability ensures efficient capacity
expansions
• Delivers carrier-grade services: provides quality voice and video services
with highest availability
• Supports Quality of Service (QoS):
differentiated services code point
(DSCP) marking to differentiate the
flow according to RFC 4594
Figure 1. Alcatel-Lucent MRF, Release 7.1 environment
Application servers
LSM
(CSCF)
MGC-12
Audio
• G.711 a/µ law
• G.729A
• AMR-NB, EVRC
Video: H.263
• Profile 0 level 10 QCIF
• Profile 0 level 30 QCIF/CIF
5420 CTS
(FS5K)
Class 5
services
NETANN
MSML
3G MSC
(m.5, m.6)
Standard Alcatel-Lucent products
5340
ECN
NETANN
RTP/RTCP
NETANN/MSCML
8610
ICC
MSCML
MRF
Voice mail
Messaging
8642
FRC
AMSML
VoiceXML
Video mail
Wireless
office
AMSML
NETANN
VoiceXML
RTSP
Others
(project
defined)
SIP
1357 LI
HTTP
server
Project
integration
Streaming
server
Alcatel- Lucent Media Resourc e Func tion | Rele ase 7.1 | Data She et2
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