Vocera Client Gateway Ports

When you open the vgwproperties.txt file, you can set the following properties to configure Vocera Client Gateway ports:

Table 1. Vocera Client Gateway port properties

Property

Description

VCGCallSignalingPort

Sets the port to use for SIP signaling from Vocera Smartphones. The default is 5060.

VCGBaseAudioPortNo

Sets the base UDP port for receiving audio packets from Vocera Voice Server, Telephony Server, or Vocera badges. The default base UDP port is 6300.

By default, Vocera Client Gateway opens up to 256 UDP ports to receive audio from the Vocera Voice Server, Telephony Server, or Vocera badges.

VCGRTPBasePort

Sets the base UDP port for receiving audio packets from Vocera Smartphones. The default is 7700.

Each client session uses an RTP and an RTCP port. Therefore, the total number of UDP ports for Smartphone to Vocera Client Gateway audio is two times the number of VCGMaxChannelsSupported, which is set to 256 by default, resulting in 512 ports allocated by default.