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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual OpenVox Communication Co.Ltd A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Version: 2.2 OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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A1200P 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 A1200P ....................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 A1200P 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.
A1200P 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.
A1200P on DAHDI User Manual 1.2 What is A1200P A1200P is the industrial first 12 port analog card with 12 interchangeable FXS/FXO modules design. It can eliminate the requirement for separate channel banks or access gateways. The A1200P contains 12 module banks. Each bank supports one analog interface.
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Each port can be set as FXO or FXS via plugging different modules in it LEDs display the board’s status Low CPU Payload : Below 25% with 5 A1200P cards(60 ports in total) after driver installed, on a Celereon D 2.53GHz Extending the system by adding more modules ...
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual protecting users’ investment by directly utilizing their investment on modules of TDM400P 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 ...
A1200P board by a specific connector. 2.2 Slot compatibility A1200P is compatible with 32-bit 5.0V PCI slot, 64-bit 3.3V PCI slot or 64-bit 5.0V PCI slot except PCI-E slot; you should confirm your slot type and insert A1200P into any type of PCI slot as previously described.
A1200P on DAHDI User Manual 2.3 Timing cable If you have just one card in the system, all channels on that card have already run under the same clock source, so timing cable is unnecessary. But if there are more than one card, using timing cable has some advantages.
FXS ports which provides power (battery) and generates ring signals. 2.5 Splitter A RJ45 interface of A1200P is divided into four RJ11 ports by a specific splitter as the picture of Appendix B stated. So you should prepare for some splitters when install A1200P.
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Power supply connection Port PCI slot Figure 4 Hardware setup Caution: If any FXS module is setup, you should make power on. During the above processes, an ESD wrist strap is needed. Once power is on, you must not attempt to install or take down the board.
A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration A1200P supports DAHDI software driver on Linux. To make full use of A1200P, 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 A1200P. If it has been recognized, communication controller will be displayed in the output information like that: OpenVox Communication Co. LTD.
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PME- Kernel modules: opvxa1200, hisax Figure 5 Hardware detection If A1200P is not recognized by the system, you have to power off and take out the card, then try to insert it into other PCI slot. 2. Software installation Some dependencies are crucial. If any of them is absent, the software installation process would not go through successfully.
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A1200P 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...
A1200P 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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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Opvxa1200 is the driver module name of A1200P. "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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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual # Span 1: OPVXA1200/12 "OpenVox A1200P/A800P Board 13" (MASTER) fxsks=1 fxsks=2 fxsks=3 fxsks=4 fxsks=5 fxsks=6 fxoks=7 fxoks=8 fxoks=9 fxoks=10 fxoks=11 fxoks=12 # Global data loadzone = us defaultzone = us Figure 6 A part of system.conf 2.
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual /etc/asterisk/indications.conf. country=cn A part of file /etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf is showed as below. (Modification, if it is not agree with the hardware setup) OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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A1200P 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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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual 3. Asterisk initiation # asterisk -vvvvvvgc If Asterisk is already activate, run "asterisk –r" instead. In the CLI, please run the following command: localhost*CLI> dahdi show channels Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret Pseudo default...
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual # vim /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf [from-pstn] exten => s,1,Answer() exten => s,n,Dial(dahdi/1,,r) exten => s,n,Hangup() [from-internal] exten => 200,1,Dial(dahdi/7/outgoing_number) exten => 200,2,Hangup() Figure 10 dial plan You should write the destination number instead of the outgoing_number in the above dial plan. The above dial plan achieves that when an extension telephone dials 200, Asterisk will transfer through channel 7 to the destination.
A1200P 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...
A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Appendix A Specifications • Weight and size Weight: 161g (5.68oz) Size: 31.2× 11.1×1.8cm (12.56×4.4× 0.71 inch) • Interfaces PCI Bus: 3.3V or 5V bus slot, PCI 2.2 or above Power Supply Connect: 12V 4-pin connector (When any FXS modules...
Appendix B PIN Assignments A FXO or FXS port corresponds to four RJ11 port by a splitter. Either 4-pin or 6-pin RJ11 port is compatible with A1200P, let’s illustrate pin assignments of RJ11 port by the following tables. 4-pin RJ11 port...
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual Not used Ring Not used 6-pin RJ11 port 6-pin RJ11 port Description Not used Not used Ring Not used Not used RJ-45 interface Tel 1 TIP/RING of Tel 1 Tel 1 Tel 2 TIP/RING of Tel 2...
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A1200P on DAHDI User Manual RJ-45 RJ-11 OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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