Home Media; Universal Plug And Play; Enabling Universal Plug And Play On The Device - AudioCodes MP-26 series User Manual

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Home Media

16.1

Universal Plug and Play

Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) is a networking architecture that provides compatibility
among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. UPnP-enabled products can
seamlessly connect and communicate with other UPnP-enabled devices without the need
for user configuration, centralized servers, or product-specific device drivers. This
technology leverages existing standards and technologies, including TCP/IP, HTTP 1.1
and XML, facilitating the incorporation of UPnP capabilities into a wide range of networked
products for the home.
UPnP technologies are rapidly adopted and integrated into widely-used consumer products
such as Windows XP. Therefore it is critical that today's Residential Gateways be UPnP-
compliant. Your device is at the forefront of this development, offering a complete software
platform for UPnP devices. This means that any UPnP-enabled control point (client) can
dynamically join the network, obtain an IP address and exchange information about its
capabilities and those of other computers on the network. They can subsequently
communicate with each other directly, thereby further enabling peer-to-peer networking.
And this all happens automatically, providing a truly zero-configuration network.

16.1.1 Enabling Universal Plug and Play on the Device

The procedure below describes how to enable the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) feature
on the device.
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To enable UPnP:
1. In the 'Advanced' screen, click the Universal Plug and Play
'Universal Plug and Play' screen appears.
Figure 16-1: Advanced - Universal Plug n Play (e.g., MP-264)
2. Select the 'Allow Other Network Users to Control MP264's Network Features' to
enable the UPnP feature. This allows you to define UPnP services on any of the LAN
hosts.
3. Select the 'Enable Automatic Cleanup of Old Unused UPnP Services' to enable
automatic cleanup of invalid rules. This feature checks the validity of all UPnP services
every five minutes, and removes old and obsolete services, unless a user-defined rule
depends on them.
4. From the 'WAN Connection Publication' drop-down list, select which WAN information
is published by the device. By default, the device publishes only its main WAN
connection, which is controllable by UPnP entities. However, you may select the
'Publish All WAN Connections' option if you wish to grant UPnP control over all of the
device's WAN connections.
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