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A400E on DAHDI User Manual OpenVox Communication Co.Ltd A400E on DAHDI User Manual Version: 2.2 OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn http://ArtTel.ru...
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual OpenVox Communication Co.Ltd OpenVox-Best Cost Effective Asterisk Cards Address: F/3, Building No.127, Jindi Industrial Zone, Shazui Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518048, China Tel:+86-755-82535461, 82535095, 82535362, Fax:+86-755-83823074 Business Contact: sales@openvox.com.cn Technical Support: support@openvox.com.cn Business Hours: 09:00-18:00(GMT+8) from Monday to Friday URL: www.openvox.cn...
General Safety Instructions ..................4 Test Environme nts ....................... 5 Chapter 1 Ove rvie w ..................... 6 1.1 What is Asterisk ....................6 1.2 What is A400E ....................7 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup ..................10 2.1 Power supply....................10 2.2 Slot compatibility .................... 10 2.3 Timing cable....................
4. For avoiding personal injuries and damages to your machine and A400E card, make sure bracket of the card is secured to the PC ’s chassis ground by fastening the card with a screw. 5. Electrical Surges, ESD are very destructive to the equipment. To avoid it, make sure there is a low impedance discharge path from your computer to chassis ground.
A400E on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 1 Overview 1.1 What is Asterisk The Definition of Asterisk is described as follows: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows (emulated) and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.
With interchangeable FXS/FXO modules, it can eliminate the requirements for separate channel banks or access gateways. The A400E contains 4 module banks. Each bank supports one analog interface. The module banks may be filled with up to 4 FXO or FXS modules enabling the creation of any combination of ports.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual FXS-100 FXO-100 module module Analog phone 1 Analog phone 2 PSTN line 1 PSTN line 2 PCI-E Figure 2 Sample application Key benefits High performance with low price Modular Design: Up to 4 FXS, FXO or mixed FXS/FXO ports per card.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual Worldwide usable: Configurable line interface to meet global telephone line interface requirements RoHS compliant Certificates: CE, FCC, A-Tick trixbox Officially Certified Elastix ® Officially Certified Features Supports PCI 2.2 or above, 3.3 V and 5 V PCI slots ...
2.2 Slot compatibility A400E is compatible with PCI-E slot, i.e., PCI-E × 1(slot 1), × 2, × 4, × 8, × 16 are all fit for A400E, while PCI is not fit; you should confirm your slot type and insert A400E into any type of PCI-E slot as previously described.
FXO modules use FXS signaling while FXS modules use FXO signaling. FXO modules correspond to FXO port and the same with FXS modules and FXS ports. FXO ports allow A400E connect to PSTN lines and FXS ports connect to extension sets.
A400E on DAHDI User Manual 2.5 Hardware setup procedure Power off your PC, remember unplug the AC power cable Insert A400E into a PCI-E slot Put timing cable correctly if necessary, for more details, please refer HERE ...
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual analog phones directly to make sure the lines and phones are available before insert the PSTN lines into FXO ports. After hard ware setup, it is time to install software. OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
A400E on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration A400E supports DAHDI software driver on Linux. To make full use of A400E, you should download, compile, install and configure DAHDI and Asterisk. 3.1 Download DAHDI software packages are available on openvox official website or Digium.
# tar –xvzf asterisk-1.8.0.tar.gz 3.2 Installation 1. Hardware detection # lspci –vvvv Check the outcome and confirm your system has recognized A400E. If it has been recognized, "Network controller" will be displayed in the output information like that: OpenVox Communication Co. LTD.
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Kernel driver in use: wctdm Kernel modules: wctdm, hisax Figure 5 Hardware detection If A400E is not recognized by the system, you have to power off and take out the card, then try to insert it into another PCI-E slot. 2. Software installation Some dependencies are crucial.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual directly. Otherwise, the system will keep on installing it. After install the dependencies, please change to the directory dahdi-linux-complete-XX (XX represents DAHDI version), then perform the following commands one by one to install DAHDI. # cd /usr/src/dahdi-linux-complete-XX...
A400E on DAHDI User Manual # make install # make samples "make samples" will install the standard sample configuration file in the directory /etc/asterisk. As a freshman, you should perform make samples, that is to say, it is unnecessary to perform make samples every time. Because once performed, it will cover the old sample configuration files you have installed.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual "wctdm" is the driver module name of A400E. "opermode" applies to FXO port and is invalid for FXS port, and you are allowed to take place of "CHINA" to other mode name which is available in the file: ../dahdi-linux-XX/linux/drivers/dahdi/fxo_modules.h...
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual # Span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F Board 5" (MASTER) fxoks=1 fxoks=2 fxsks=3 fxsks=4 # Global data loadzone = us defaultzone = us Figure 6 A part of system.conf 2. Country mode modification In order to match your country pattern, you need to change parameters loadzone and defaultzone to your country.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual A part of file /etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf is showed as below. (Modification, if it is not agree with the hardware setup) span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F Board 5" (MASTER) ;;; line="1 WCTDM/4/0 FXOKS" signalling=fxo_ks callerid="Channel 1" <4001>...
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual After modifying the country mode, please execute the following command: # dahdi_cfg –vvvvvv The command is used for reading and loading parameters in the configuration file system.conf and writing to the hardware. A part of outputs are showed in the following figure.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret Pseudo default default from-internal default from-internal default from-pstn default from-pstn default Figure 9 channels show If DAHDI channels are found, it means they have been loaded into Asterisk. You are going to edit dialplan by your requirements.
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A400E on DAHDI User Manual While a call comes from PSTN line, Asterisk answers firstly, and then gets through to the extension set which connects channel 1. After saving your dialplan, please run "asterisk –r", then execute "reload" in the CLI. Next you are able to make calls.
A400E on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 4 Reference www.openvox.cn www.digium.com www.asterisk.org www.voip-info.org www.asteriskguru.com Tips Any questions during installation please consult in our forum or look up for answers from the following websites: Forum wiki OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
A400E on DAHDI User Manual Appendix B PIN Assignments Either 4-pin or 6-pin RJ11 port is compatible with A400E, let’s illustrate pin assignments of RJ11 port by the following tables. 4-pin RJ11 port 4-pin RJ11 port Description Not used Ring...
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