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Intermittent One-Way Audio
« on: August 26, 2025, 08:07:49 AM »
Everyone,

Well, I finally hit a wall that I can’t see a way over.

We have a customer with a virtual MCD and a physical MCD MXe-III both at 9.4.9 currently and they are using 53xx series phones.

Supposedly over the summer they started having issues with intermittent one-way audio.

The customer checked the phone of the user that was complaining about the issue and swapped it out, no change.

Our service tech checked the PRI on the MXe-III and had no errors.

They had the network vendor check the network and they have no issues either.

The service tech changed the phones primary server to the physical MXe-III and left it there, no change.

Keep in mind this is during the summer and very little traffic so it didn’t happen every day so it was taking time to find anything.

The service tech pushed multiple calls throughout the day to try and get it to happen but was unable to recreate it.

The service tech saw that they were losing connection to the physical controller and started a long-term ping.

The service tech noticed some issues in the maintenance logs and put in a ticket with Mitel, but it was for phones that were failing over.

The service tech sent a copy of the SOS logs from both controllers to Mitel and they can’t find a problem that would cause one-way audio.

Operations swapped out the entire MXe-III controller and restored the database.

The network vendor swapped out the core switches.

We didn’t hear back from them for a month or two.

Their IT guy quit which is why we didn’t hear back, and they continued to have the problem and last week they tried to call 911 and it failed with one-way audio.

As you can imagine the customer is upset at this point, but we can’t think of anything else we can do.

Operations spun up a new virtual controller, but I didn’t have any hope for that as the audio shouldn’t be anchored through it.

I had been brought into a vendor meet yesterday and I am going to take out four PCs, one for each building, and install them to track the network since they have four different vlans.

The network vendor is stating it isn’t their network as they have no issues with internal calls, and they haven’t had any issues with loss of connection since they swapped out the core switches.

Obviously, there is an issue but neither of us can find any fault with our equipment at this point.

Hopefully someone has a good idea of what we can look at or try in order to determine what could be causing this.

Thanks,

TE

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2025, 08:24:03 AM »
Are all phone related devices on the same network?

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2025, 08:39:45 AM »
Johnp,

The controllers on are the 172.20.252.0/22 network along with phones in that building.

We have phones from the other buildings in the following networks:
172.20.0.1 – 172.20.3.254          VLAN:3800
172.20.4.1 – 172.20.7.254          VLAN:3900
172.20.8.1 – 172.20.11.254        VLAN:3700
172.20.252.38 – 172.20.252.200 VLAN:4000

The last octet from each range is the gateway setup in the Extreme Network Core switches via VRRP.

Thanks,

TE

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2025, 08:54:01 AM »
which side can hear?

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2025, 10:06:46 PM »
Are all voice VLANs trusted on the MXE in MSL?  The IP phone would need to communicate directly with the MXE due to legacy PRI.  Make sure they are trusted  on the virtual too, but you are correct that wouldn't be part of the call for IP phone over PRI.  Is there an E2T card on the MXE?  Did you reuse any hardware from the original MXE on the swap?  Bad DSP?

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2025, 11:14:19 PM »
Ralph,

I asked that question today to one of the people who it happens to most.

It could happen on an inbound or outbound call and the audio lost could be in either direction, not normal.

They also stated that although they never had it happen to them they heard about audio being dropped after a call was answered and they talked for a bit, also not normal.

ACDeezNutz,

Yes, I verified that all VLANs were trusted on the MSL for both the MXe-III and the Virtual MCD. There is an E2T card on the MXe-III and we didn't reuse any hardware from the old MXe-III as we didn't know what could be causing it and didn't want to take a chance.

Anyone,

Does anyone know of a piece of software that would allow us to do something like a ping or pathping with a timestamp and store the results daily? I put a PC in each VLAN/Building and having it running a continuous ping, but I don't know of a way to store the results or have a timestamp. I just read an article on how to do it with PowerShell so I will give that a try tomorrow, but I remember back in the windows XP days there used to a program that had a GUI and would do that as well as other internal commands.

Thanks,

TE

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2025, 12:52:59 PM »
could pipe output to a file doing a similar command like this [ ping 192.168.1.1 -t > d:\ping.txt ]

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2025, 05:41:47 PM »
Anyone,

Does anyone know of a piece of software that would allow us to do something like a ping or pathping with a timestamp and store the results daily? I put a PC in each VLAN/Building and having it running a continuous ping, but I don't know of a way to store the results or have a timestamp. I just read an article on how to do it with PowerShell so I will give that a try tomorrow, but I remember back in the windows XP days there used to a program that had a GUI and would do that as well as other internal commands.

Thanks,

TE

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Re: Intermittent One-Way Audio
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2025, 08:44:39 PM »
Johnp,

Well, I thought about that, but it doesn't provide a timestamp or have any way to restart if the machine goes down and with it logging all results the file filled up quickly.

What I ended up doing is taking a crash course on how to use PowerShell to perform the tasks and provide the information needed, now I just have to wait and see if it works correctly.

If you want to see what I came up with then just look at the attachment. You will have to change it to a PS1 file if you want to use it.

Acejavelin,

That is a great looking tool, and I wish I saw this before spending all that time writing a PS Script, live and learn. If the script doesn't work, I will probably buy 5 perpetual licenses to install on the 4 PCs out there.

Thanks,

TE

P.S. If anyone has any suggestions or helpful revisions or insights on the script, I am all ears as I am not sure it is really working properly yet.

 

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