Zed-3 GS8 User Manual

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GS8
Modual Gateway
User's Manual
Manual Part Number 96-00524-01
Zed-3
501 Valley Way
Milpitas CA 95035
USA
+1-408-587-9333
http://www.zed-3.com

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  • Page 1 Modual Gateway User’s Manual Manual Part Number 96-00524-01 Zed-3 501 Valley Way Milpitas CA 95035 +1-408-587-9333 http://www.zed-3.com...
  • Page 2: Revision History

    The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Zed-3 makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Zed-3 shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Change Password ..........40 GS8 Modular Gateway User’s Manual 1...
  • Page 4 Diagnostic Tools ..........55 GS8 Disaster Recovery System....... . . 56 Glossary .
  • Page 5: Product Introduction

    Zed-3 GS8 is a Modular Gateway which has prefect performance, rich interfaces, and interface cards plug capacity. GS8 supports GSM/CDMA, SIP, FXO interface, so it can be connected with GSM/CDMA, VoIP and PSTN networks, allows calls to freely transfer between these interfaces.
  • Page 6 1. Product Introduction Specifications Description • Up to 4 GSM ports(900/1800 MHz, 850/1900MHz ) • Up to 8 FXO ports (loop start) System capacity • Any combination of interface cards • 8 simultaneous calls • 1 reset button • 4 extended slots •...
  • Page 7: Basic Features

    • Plenty system monitor: line status, current call, CDR, system status. • Easy-use of web configuration and management system. • Powerful safety management, upload/download configurations, fireware update, disaster recovery etc. Profile 1.4.1 Appearance Figure 1-1 GS8 appearance 1.4.2 Front View...
  • Page 8: Back View

    1. Product Introduction Figure 1-2 GS8 front panel • Two LED indicators on the front panel of GS8 for system status: - Power: power indicator, be green when power-on. - Connectivity: network connectivity indicator. Be red if there is no Ethernet connectivity.
  • Page 9: Interface Module

    One GSM card supports one GSM call, one CDMA card supprts one CDMA call, but one FXO card has two FXO ports, so it supports two FXO calls. In total, GS8 supports eight FXO calls or four GSM calls or four CDMA calls.
  • Page 10 1. Product Introduction A External Antenna Figure 1-5 GSM/CDMA interface card • Signal: be red or green. be red if there is no signal. be off for 500ms then be red for 500ms if there is no SIM card. be orange when there is SIM card and signal but the register to service provider's network failed.
  • Page 11: Device Installation

    One Zed-3 pen as a gift. • Accessories package: six M6 screws, eight M4 screws, two GS8 fixers. Note: If there is any missing or damage, contact the seller or Zed-3 sales immediately and save all packages for the repackaging if need. Installation Requirements 2.1.1 Power Requirements •...
  • Page 12 2.1.3.1 Basic Conditions Keep the GS8 equipment in a room which has proper control of temperature and humidity, watch out the conductivity of the shelf. Too high or too low humidity will cause short circuit or fire. At the same time, the conductive property of rack is also considerable.
  • Page 13: Preparations

    Get a standard RJ-45 cable for GS8. 2.2.4 External Line 2FXO card is necessary if you want to call PSTN from GS8, connect its FXO port with PSTN with a cable. Prepare a GSM card if you want to call mobile phones from GS8.
  • Page 14: Network Connection

    Connect the cable with Ethernet LAN port on the back side. 2.3.2 Connect out Line • Connect analog line with the port of 2FXO card on GS8 • If there is a GSM/CDMA card, connect an antenna with GSM/CDMA port. Better way is with a coaxial cable.
  • Page 15: Web Management System

    Open IE browser and enter IP address in the address field. GS8 has a default address: 192.168.0.100. If the default address has been changed, gain it like below: ( if you can not login, see 3.1.1 change GS8's IP address) •...
  • Page 16 Change your PC's IP address to the same network segment (for example: 192.168.0.120 ) Login to GS8: visit the default "192.168.0.100" with IE browser and login with "admin". Click and enter Administration> Network Setting menu, change the IP Address, Net...
  • Page 17: Web Management System Interface

    3. Web Management System Figure 3-2 Change GS8's IP address After setting, press [Set] button to make it work. roll your PC's IP address back. Login to the web management system with the new IP address. Web Management System Interface There are six main menus on the top of the web management system's main page, they are Monitor, Line Settings, Call settings, Administration,and Maintenance.
  • Page 18: Menu Structure

    3. Web Management System The system supports Chinese and English. Here is the English version. Menu Structure Figure 3-4 Menu Structure...
  • Page 19: Monitor

    4. Monitor C h a p t e r 4 Monitor The Monitor menu in Web Management System provides System Info, Line Status, Active CAlls, Call Records etc.. System Info Login to Web Management System or on the page of Monitor > System Info, there is system information about product model, firmware version, licence and resource usage etc.
  • Page 20: Line Status

    Trunk lines are very important basic resources for GS8 system. All calls must have trunk lines to be made. GS8 has two kinds of trunk line: IP line and interface card line. You must use SIP protocol to make a call on IP line, you may add, delete, or modify IP line by yourself. Maximal capacity is 10 register IP lines and 10 unregister IP lines.
  • Page 21 GS8 monitors SIM cards of wireless modules (including GSM and CDMA), and all status will be shown at the Status field. For IP Line, GS8 checks whether unregister IP lines are ready every 10 minutes and shows the result at Status field.
  • Page 22: Active Calls

    4. Monitor The lowest leverl is 5, the signal less than 5 is showed as a blank, 5 to 9 shows one grid. 10 to 15 shows two grids. 16-20 shows three grids. 21 to 25 shows 4 grids. Greater than 25 shows full five grids.
  • Page 23 4. Monitor Figure 4-4 Monitor-Call Records Setting page • Caller: the caller's phone number. • Callee: the callee's phone number. • Callin Line: the line type and port number of the caller in conversation, for example: "FXO/slot3-2" means the 2nd port of the FXO card which is in 3rd slot. •...
  • Page 24: Line Settings

    C h a p t e r 5 Line Settings Our GS8 equipment supports four types of interface cards: GSM, CMDA, FXO and IP card. On the page of Line Settings page, you can define the common properties of all kinds of lines in this equipment.
  • Page 25: Ip Line

    5. Line Settings IP Line Here supports two ways of IP Line Settings: register and unregister. For register-type IP Line, you need to set proxy's address and port, register server's address and port, user name and password, register expiration, NAT-traverse, home domain, and maximum connections and AA switch.
  • Page 26: Backup Settings

    5. Line Settings • Password: the password for register. • Register Expiration: timeout after these seconds. • Home Domain: domain's IP address. • NAT Traversal Mode: three modes: • None: no mode. • Port Forwarding: port forwarding mode: • Pubilc Address: set public IP address or domain and port, the IP and port are separated by ":".
  • Page 27: Gsm Line

    If the IP-PBX has GSM card, the web management system will show your GSM line setting page. 5.2.1 GSM Line List • ID: the slot number of GSM device, like "slot1". • Phone Number: the phone number of this line. 1. Show this parameter when GS8 has GSM module.
  • Page 28 Voice In Call: Accept or reject returned voice when call out via this line. • Working Frequency: Working frequency of this GSM line. You may use different type GSM module on GS8. - Working Frequency is gray and un-conofigurable when GSM use double frequencies: 900 / 1800 MHZ.
  • Page 29: Cdma Line

    Phone Number: The phone number of this line • Enable AA: If enter AA (Auto Attendant) when dail in via this line. • Output Volume: Output volume of this line: low, middle, high, highest. 2. Show this parameter when GS8 has CDMA module.
  • Page 30: Fxo Line

    5.4.1 FXO line List • ID: the real position of FXO interface card on GS8, like "slot2-1" which means the 1st FXO interface card on the 2nd slot is FXO module. • Phone Number: the phone number of this line.
  • Page 31: Call Settings

    6. Call Settings C h a p t e r 6 Call Settings The Call Setings menu of Web Management System provides configurations of call routing, number transform, call filtration, schedule group, and system configuration. Among them, number transform, call routing and call filtration co-exist and supplement each other. Call routing is the core, plus number transform, call filtration, numbering plan and schedule setting, all of them are combined to provide flexible control of coming and going calls via GS-8 modular gateway.
  • Page 32: Routing Matching Rules

    6. Call Settings Examples: Input Output • 1234X The first four digits are 1234, the fifth is a digit from 0 to 9, five digits totally. • 1234[1,5-9] The first four digits are 1234, the fifth is 1 or a digit from 5 to 9, five digits totally. •...
  • Page 33: Route

    6. Call Settings Route Call Settings > Route lists trunks available and decides which record to use and how to control the calls based on source device, caller id, callee id and call time etc. Call Settings page is separated into two areas: the list area and the edit area: •...
  • Page 34: Alter

    6. Call Settings Note: The principle of routing we used here is Perfect Matching, which is searching the most matched route based on source line. For example, there are two routes, the Sources of route A are IP1 and IP2, the Source of route B is IP1, so when a call is from IP1, no matter which route is on the first positon, the system will choose route B.
  • Page 35 6. Call Settings • The edit area: the edit area of settings. Figure 6-2 Call Settings - Alter page 6.4.1 Alter Strategies List Alter strategies list shows you a group of created strategies. GSM supports transforming multi-number based on one matching mode. •...
  • Page 36 6. Call Settings 6.4.2 Parameters Descriptions Enter necessary parameters in edit area when you create a new strategy, press Add button to save it. • Description: the description of this strategy. • Type: the execute mode of this strategy: Pre-routing or Post-routing. Number transform can be done in two periods: before routing (pre-routing) and after routing (post-routing).
  • Page 37 6. Call Settings - Transform Objective: caller or callee number. - Transform action: includes Strip, Add, Keep, Replace, Calculate. - Transform location: head or tail. - Transform parameter: digit number or specific number or string etc. press OK to save it and exit.
  • Page 38: Filter

    6. Call Settings • Replace N digits from the tail of caller or callee number: replace N (N>=1) digits from the tail of caller or callee number with another number. If N is more than the length of caller or callee number, replace the number with another defferent number completely.
  • Page 39: Filter List

    6. Call Settings Figure 6-4 Call Settings - Call Filtration Setting page 6.5.1 Filter List Call filtration matching strategy is similar with route matching strategy. From up to down, get the first matched strategy no matter how many strategies left are matched too. Then determine whether let this call via the gateway based on this strategy's filtration action.
  • Page 40: Schedule

    6. Call Settings 6.5.2 Parameters Description Set parameters in edit area when you create a new strategy. Press [Add] button to save it. • Description: the description of this strategy. • Type: the execute mode of this strategy: pre-routing or post-routing. Call filtration can be used in two locations: before number transforming before routing (pre-routing) and after number transforming after routing (post-routing).
  • Page 41 6. Call Settings 6.6.1.1 Add a Group Figure 6-5 Call Settings - Schedule Group Settings page Press 'Add …' under Schedule Group to enter the page. Parameters here: • Description: the description of this schedule. • Date Range Type: the range type of date: by day, by week, by month, by year, work day or every day.
  • Page 42: System

    6. Call Settings • Description: the description of this schedule • Date Range Type: the range type of date: by day, by week, by month, by year, work day or every day. • Time range: the specific time range Click [Add] to save it. 6.6.2 Schedule Management Use 'Modify' , 'Remove' to change or delete existing schedule in the list.
  • Page 43 • Dial Timeout: expiration time of dialing, count in second. • Query IP: how to get GS8's IP address, composed by 12 keys : 0-9, *, #, the default is "***", see 3.1 Login. • Auth Enable: if need authentication information when querying GS8's IP address. If yes, you should set Auth Passward also.
  • Page 44: Administration

    7. Administration C h a p t e r 7 Administration You may use this menu to change administrator password, and manage system time and network settings. Change Password Change the administrator's password here, (other users' passwords are set in Administration > Change Password) •...
  • Page 45: Network Setting

    Primary / Secondary DNS: the IP address of primary or secondary DNS server. VLAN: enable or disable VLAN. You need to set GS8's VLAN tag if you enabled VLAN, GS8 will send IP package with VLAN tag. The configuration refers to 3.1 change GS8's IP Address.
  • Page 46 7. Administration If you use NTP server, please set right time zone and NTP server (with domain or IP address) to get the correct time. Set it by yourself, be careful about the format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. 7.3.1 Enable Time Server Set NTP server to synchronize the system time of the equipment.
  • Page 47 7. Administration 7.3.2 Disable Time Server Select GS8 equipment's time zone in the drop-down list. Note: Time zone is necessary if you use NTP service. 7.3.3 Change Time Set time by yourself. The format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Note: Be carefule about the format.
  • Page 48: Sms

    8. SMS C h a p t e r 8 GS8 provides SMS route setting, client setting, reveiving and sending management page at SMS menu. Figure 8-1 SMS settings page...
  • Page 49: Route

    8. SMS Route Click Route on the left task bar to set intellective route for GS8 SMS sending. Two parts in Route setting page: • The above part: show existing SMS route list. • The below part: edit area of SMS route 8.1.1...
  • Page 50 8. SMS Figure 8-3 SMS - Route setting page • Description: the description of this route • Source Line: the type of source device (includes FXO, GSM, CDMA, IP) and ports available ( can be multi-chosen) , for example, 'Slot1-2' means the 2nd port of the 1st card. "G/C"means GSM or CDMA module: C-slot3 is the CDMA port of the third slot, "G-slot4"is the GSM port on the 4th slot.
  • Page 51: Gtxt Client

    Alter parameter: digit number or specific number or string etc. press [OK] to save it and exit. GTXT Client GTXT is a Windows SMS reveiver client especially developed for GS8. it interacts with GS8 via TCP connection. On the page of GTXT, you may check created GTXT account list , create and manage GTXT account information.
  • Page 52: Configuration

    Username: The user name of GTXT Client account. • Password: The password of GTXT Client account. Use [Add], [Modify], [Remove] buttons to manage GTXT Client account list in GS8 web management system. Configuration Set if receive, send and save SMS at Configuration page.
  • Page 53 GTXT user within some valid time when it received a message from that GTXT user. At the same time, GS8 provides message saving function too - save the messages on GS8 when it got an un-sendable message for routing fail or unavailable destination. Then GS8 send certain GTXT user all his/her messages and deleted them locally after he/her login to GS8 and sending update request message.
  • Page 54: Send Test Message

    8. SMS Send Test Message On the page of Send Test Message, administrator may send test message here: Figure 8-8 SMS - sending test page Operate like below: Choose a send port: set message sending line at OutLine. Available lines are preset at Line Settings menu.
  • Page 55 Click one message on the list of Received Message and read it at Contents field. 8.5.2 Download SMS Use [Download] on the bottom of Received Message page to save all saved messages in GS8 locally as saved_sms.txt. 8.5.3 Remove SMS Use [Remove All] on the botton of the page of Received Message to delete all buffered messages on GS8.
  • Page 56: Maintenance

    9. Maintenance C h a p t e r 9 Maintenance In Maintenance menu, administrators can maintain the system via backup, recovery, up-grade etc. operations. System Reboot Figure 9-1 System Reboot page • Restart VoIP: stop and restart the service. •...
  • Page 57: Upgrade Firmware

    9. Maintenance Config Management page • Upload: press [Upload] button to upload the backup configuration file to GS8 equipment. • Download: press [Download] button to download system configuration as gs8_config.tgz file to local machine. 9.2.2 Reset To Default Factory Configurations This menu will reset the equipment to the default factory configurations except network setting.
  • Page 58: Auto Attendant

    'GS8 Disaster Recovery System' to restart and upgrade GS8 again. Auto Attendant GS8 provides voice file uploading function. on the page of Maintenance > Auto Attendants, you may set language of prompts, and upload new voice file or recovery them to the defaults.
  • Page 59: Diagnostic Tools

    9. Maintenance Set Encode Type: define codec type for uploading file. Press [Upload] to upload the file. 9.4.3 Recovery to Default Prompts Press [Reset] on the page of Reset all voice prompts to default to recovery prompts to the defaults, which means clear all files uploaded by users and use the default prompts. Diagnostic Tools Visit Maintenance >...
  • Page 60: Gs8 Disaster Recovery System

    GS8 Disaster Recovery System. The steps are: Press Reset button for 3 seconds after power on. Press Reset button for 2 seconds to enter GS8 Disaster Recovery System. The indicator light is red now. Note: All datas in GS8 Disaster Recovery System are default configurations, you need to update configurations to use GS8.
  • Page 61: Glossary

    B. Glossary A p p e n d i x B Glossary 10BaseT. A physical media specified by the IEEE 802.3 standard for supporting Ethernet with a maximum transmission rate of 10 Mb/s. 10BaseT consists of copper twisted-pair cable normally used for wiring ordinary telephones.
  • Page 62 B. Glossary Decryption. Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data to its original form. See Encryption. De-Militarized Zone (DMZ). A computer host or small network placed between a company’s private network and the outside public network to prevent outside users from gaining direct access to a server that contains company data.
  • Page 63 Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). The portion of an Internet URL that identifies the server program that an Internet request addresses. The FQDN includes the second-level domain name (such as Zed-3.com) and any other levels (such as www.Zed-3.com). Gateway. A network point that serves as an entrance to another network. Computers that control traffic within an enterprise’s network or at the local Internet Service Provider (ISP) are gateways.
  • Page 64 B. Glossary Internet Protocol (IP). A network layer protocol that sends datagram packets between Internet nodes. IP is a connection-less protocol, implying that there is no continuing connection between communicating endpoints. IP provides addressing, type-of-service (ToS) specification, security, fragmentation and reassembly features. The most widely used IP version is Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4).
  • Page 65 B. Glossary table relates your IP address to your computer's physical (MAC) address on the LAN. The MAC address is used by the Media Access Control sublayer of the Datalink Control (DLC) protocol layer. Each physical device type has a different MAC sublayer. Network Address Translation (NAT).
  • Page 66 B. Glossary or changes to an RFC are permitted once it becomes an Internet standard. changes to internet standards are enacted through subsequent RFCs that supersede or elaborate on all or parts of existing RFCs. Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). A protocol by which a physical machine in a local area network can request its IP address from a gateway server ’s Address Resolution Protocol table or cache.
  • Page 67 Also referred to as a location or address, URLs specify the location of files on servers. A general URL has the syntax protocol://address. For example, http://www.Zed-3.com/index.htm specifies that the protocol is http and the address is www.Zed-3.com/ index.htm. Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP). Also known as 10BaseT. This is the standard cabling used for telephone lines.
  • Page 68 B. Glossary sending the initial INVITE request and as a UAS when receiving a BYE request from the calling station. Similarly, the same software can act as a proxy server for one request and as a redirect server for the next request. User Agent Client.

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