NewVoiceMedia has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information contained in this document is accurate at the time of publication. The information in this document is subject to periodic change and applies to the latest versions of our products.

General requirements and recommendations

Web browsers

For all browsers you must enable the following:

  • Cookies
  • JavaScript
  • TLS 1.2 or later. For further information about supported protocols and cipher suites, see Supported protocol versions and cipher suites.

  • Web storage (both session storage and local storage) (if using for ContactPad)

We support the following browsers:

  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 11

    Call Recordings, Call Recording Player and Conversation Analyzer are not supported in Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 11 or earlier.


  • Microsoft® Edge, latest version
  • Mozilla® Firefox®, latest version
  • Google Chrome™, latest version
  • Apple® Safari®, latest version

    For ContactPad and ContactHub only. You must configure your browser to always allow cookies.


We do NOT support Apple® Safari® on an Apple Mac when using the Mid-Call Payment Transfer solution

We do NOT support privacy mode in any browsers when using ContactPad.

Processor and memory requirements

Your processor speed and RAM must meet the recommended specification for your operating system.

Screen resolution

1024 x 768 pixels

Firewall

NewVoiceMedia, including screen pops, requires port 443 (HTTPS)

SFTP access to call recordings requires port 22

Bandwidth

ContactPad uses 8 kilobytes per second (KBps)

Real Time uses 16 KBps (based on 100 agent, 2 groups, and 2 queue icons)

Recommendation bandwidth = (number of ContactPad users x 8 KBps) + (number of Real Time users x 16 KBps)

A call center with 20 agents using ContactPad, 2 supervisors using Real Time and 1 wallboard user using Real Time will need: (20 x 8 KBps) + (2 x 16 KBps) + (1 x 16 KBps) = 208 KBps

You can use lower bandwidths, but lower bandwidths will result in slower refresh rates and a poor user experience.

  • These bandwidth recommendations are based on call delivery through the PSTN and do not include VoIP (voice traffic). The voice traffic bandwidth is stated in the telephony section below.
  • End users (agents, supervisors and wallboard users) regularly communicate both ways with the host data center. The recommendations apply to upload bandwidth as well as download bandwidth to maintain communication between end-user interfaces and the host data center. Whilst upload bandwidth requirements are not as great as download requirements, having sufficient bandwidth to upload files quickly ensures a good end-user experience.

Latency

Maximum 250 ms for optimum agent experience.

This latency recommendation is based on call delivery through the PSTN and does not include VoIP (voice traffic). The voice traffic bandwidth is stated in the telephony section below.

NewVoiceMedia in Salesforce

ItemRequirement/recommendation

Minimum version

  • Professional edition (Express and Essentials licenses only)—requires Web Services API
  • Enterprise edition
  • Unlimited edition
  • Performance edition

Salesforce accounts and licenses

The NewVoiceMedia managed package requires a Salesforce.com account to establish the API connection between Salesforce and NewVoiceMedia platform accounts.

You can dedicate this account to NewVoiceMedia or you can share it with other applications. A dedicated account is preferable, as it allows for greater fault finding and auditing without impacting other applications.

All of your Salesforce users must have a Salesforce license—other than a Communities license—to use NewVoiceMedia in Salesforce.

Users with Communities licenses cannot use NewVoiceMedia in Salesforce.


Session SettingsSessions must not be locked to the IP address from which they originated. For information about this and other session settings, see Salesforce help.
Web browserFor information about required browsers, see Salesforce help.

Number format

Telephone numbers within Salesforce should be in E.164 format (maximum is 15 digits). For information about the E.164 format, see E.164 format. The format of the number is required for dynamic call routing, screen popping and Click to dial.

API calls

Your organization must be enabled for API access. You must also operate within the API request limits set by Salesforce for your account.

As a guide, each read and each write to and from Salesforce makes one API call. For example, 100 calls make 200 API calls.

For information about user permissions required to run API calls, see ContactWorld API user permissions.

Data requirements

You must have enough Salesforce data storage available for your use. For information about data storage limits in Salesforce, see Salesforce help.

As a guide, each call made or received in NewVoiceMedia generates a Salesforce task record. Task records are 2 kilobytes (KB).

Salesforce CTI

We provide a Call Center definition file for you to import. The imported Call Center uses Open CTI. You do not need to install a CTI adapter.

Connect

Data requirements

Advanced Reporting

Item
Requirement/recommendation
Scheduled jobs

Advanced statistics requires four scheduled jobs.

Salesforce limit is 100 jobs per organization.

Storage requirements

You must have enough Salesforce data storage available for your use. For information about data storage limits in Salesforce, see Salesforce help.

By default, Salesforce stores 8 days' worth of statistics. The retention period is configurable.

Each active agent generates one statistics record per day.
Each call generates one statistics record.
Each statistics record uses 2 KB.
Advanced statistics generates up to 4 MB of rolling transaction logs. 

Use the following calculation to estimate your storage requirements:

(2 KB x (average number of calls per day + average number of active agents per day) x retention period (days)) + 4 MB

For example, if your call center receives an average of 1000 calls per day, with an average of 100 active agents per day, and you use the default retention period, use the following calculation to estimate your storage requirements:

(2 KB x (1000 + 100) x 8) + 4 MB = 21.6 MB

Motivate

For information about prerequisites for Motitvate, see Requirements in Motivate Install Guide v1.

Telephony

ItemRequirement/recommendation

PSTN connectivity

A direct dial-in (DDI), also called direct inward dialing (DID), is required for each agent. We recommend that you do not reuse legacy or known DDIs (unless the DDIs are unknown to end customers).

Direct dial-in (DDI)/Direct inward dialing (DID)

The DDI may be on an existing private branch exchange (PBX), landline or mobile.

If using an existing PBX for voice connectivity, ensure that you are using basic voice connectivity only—you should disable hunt groups, voicemail, and forwarding. You must also ensure that you can accommodate sufficient channels for all your concurrent users.

Voice over IP (VoIP)

If using IP telephony provided by NewVoiceMedia, to achieve high-quality VoIP calls, your IP network has the following requirements:

  • Bandwidth: 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per phone
  • Latency (round-trip delay time): < 100 ms one way
  • Jitter: < 20 ms
  • Packet loss: < 1%

You can use Power over Ethernet (PoE) to power IP hardphones supplied by NewVoiceMedia. If PoE is not supported you must order separate power supplies for each phone, specifying which plug socket type you require.

Audio file format

Most audio files in .wav format can be played. For information about the required audio format, see Recording and preparing audio used in applets.


NewVoiceMedia will provide additional IP and port information where relevant for your location.

WebRTC

ItemRequirement/recommendation

Server-side ports—outbound traffic (packets leaving the customer's network)

Signaling: 443

Presence: 443

Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP): 10,000-20,000

Client-side ports—
return traffic (packets entering the customer's network)

Softphone selects any available port from the ephemeral range—on most machines ports 1,024 to 65,535.
Protocol

Signaling: TCP

Presence: TCP

RTP: User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Bandwidth100 kilobits per second (kbps) (symmetric)
Firewall configuration

Your firewalls should allow UDP to and from the public internet for the browsers that will be using ContactPad with WebRTC.

NewVoiceMedia's WebRTC servers use fixed IP addresses from a public range. The WebRTC client uses Global Low Latency (GLL) architecture. GLL reduces the latency of calls by selecting the closest IP address for WebRTC, but includes failover to another IP address if the closest one is not available. We recommend that you configure your firewall to allow all of the following IP addresses to prevent loss of service in case of failover:

LocationMedia GatewaysSTUN/TURN

Australia

54.252.254.64 - 54.252.254.127

Brazil177.71.206.192 - 177.71.206.255
Germany35.156.191.128 - 35.156.191.25518.195.48.224 - 18.195.48.255
Ireland

54.171.127.192 - 54.171.127.255
52.215.127.0 - 52.215.127.255

Japan 54.65.63.192 - 54.65.63.255
Singapore 54.169.127.128 - 54.169.127.191
US East Coast (Virginia)

54.172.60.0 - 54.172.61.255
34.203.250.0 - 34.203.251.255

US West Coast (Oregon)Not applicable54.244.51.0 - 54.244.51.255
For Global Low Latency and ResiliencyAdd all of the above IP addresses as recommended

NewVoiceMedia WebRTC servers use dynamic port numbers. We therefore strongly recommend that your firewall does not limit access to a specific range of port numbers for those IP addresses.

Supported browsers

Google Chrome™, latest version, using the WebRTC for NewVoiceMedia extension.

We develop and test the WebRTC feature in the latest version of Google Chrome™ only.


Salesforce integrationWebRTC is only supported in Salesforce Lightning Experience and in the console view in Salesforce Classic. For information about Salesforce console, see Salesforce help.
Backup phoneAll agents should have access to an alternative phone as a backup for WebRTC.
Alternative phoneWe recommend that agents have access to an alternative phone for non-NewVoiceMedia related calls.

Firewall Configuration

IP Addresses

The URLs of our data centers with corresponding IP addresses are shown in the following table. You must add the appropriate IP addresses to any existing firewall permissions.

We recommend adding the appropriate URLs and IP addresses to any firewall rules that restrict employee access, and we request that you treat NewVoiceMedia as a business critical application. By this we mean optimizing and prioritizing IP traffic to NewVoiceMedia over other non-critical traffic. This is to ensure real-time responses to agent requests (call steering buttons, call transfers, hold requests, and so on).

We recommend that any IP packet inspection or local caching policies are also reviewed, to optimize the user experience.

Outbound IP addresses

Outbound IP addresses are used for standard web access, for example agents and supervisors accessing NewVoiceMedia applications. All customers will need to allow this.

Inbound IP addresses

Inbound IP addresses are used when NewVoiceMedia interacts with an external system where IP whitelisting is in place. Such systems include Salesforce; a customer owned, or managed, server or service; and other cloud provider services.

Application acceleration

To improve performance and response time, we use a content delivery network (CDN) for some of our static NewVoiceMedia website resources. Your firewall must allow requests to and from cdn.newvoicemedia.com for supervisors and agents to access NewVoiceMedia applications. If your firewall does not support URL whitelisting, you must whitelist the IP addresses listed at http://d7uri8nf7uskq.cloudfront.net/tools/list-cloudfront-ips.

The list of addresses at http://d7uri8nf7uskq.cloudfront.net/tools/list-cloudfront-ips is subject to change.


RegionURLIP addresses (outbound)IP addresses (inbound)
All

cdn.newvoicemedia.comhttp://d7uri8nf7uskq.cloudfront.net/tools/list-cloudfront-ips
EMEA


https://emea.newvoicemedia.com

194.140.251.7
194.140.251.14
194.140.252.7
194.140.252.14

81.171.141.37
81.171.141.44
89.187.126.117
194.140.251.71
194.140.251.84
194.140.252.71
194.140.252.84
62.173.96.133

194.140.251.4
194.140.252.4
81.171.141.34
89.187.126.114
194.140.251.68
194.140.252.68

62.173.96.130
USA

https://nam.newvoicemedia.com

107.23.216.122
18.208.11.69
54.176.97.247
54.176.165.234

54.208.98.242
54.209.40.204
54.219.131.5754.219.131.57
54.219.131.71
54.219.131.71
APAC


https://apac.newvoicemedia.com

13.236.101.83
13.55.214.98
52.74.111.52
52.77.102.86

54.252.173.50
54.252.187.75
54.254.137.13354.254.137.133
54.254.157.106
54.254.157.106