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深圳开源通信有限公司
OpenVox-Best Cost Effective Asterisk Cards
OpenVox A400P/A400E User Manual
Written by: James.zhu
Email:james.zhu@openvox.cn,zhulizhong@gmail.com
Date: 30/12/2008
Version: 0.03
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深圳开源通信有限公司
OpenVox-Best Cost Effective Asterisk Cards
OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd.
Address: F/2,Building No.14,Shangsha Science & Technology Park,
No.9283,Binhe Road, Futian District,ShenZhen ,Guangdong 518048,China
Tel:+86-755-82535095,82535461,Fax:+86-755-82535174
E-Mail：sales@openvox.cn support@openvox.cn
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Business Hours: 9:30AM-17:30PM from Monday-Friday
URL：www.openvox.cn
Thank You for Choosing OpenVox Products!
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Overview…………………………………………………………………
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Chapter 2
So ft w a re I n st a l l a t i o n a n d C o n f i g u r a t i o n …………………
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Chapter 3
Hardware Setting ………………………………………………………
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Chapter 4
References………………………………………………………………
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Chapter 1 Overview
1. What is A400P/A400E
A400P/A400E is a modular analog telephony interface product. It is designed to be
hardware compatible with Digium’s TDM400p. A400P/A400E must be used with FXO-100
or FXS-100 together to build a workable system. The FXO-100 and FXS-100 modules are
also pin to pin compatible with Digium’s X100M and S100M。
Key Benefits:
Scalable: just add additional cards to extend system
Support PCI for A400P and PCI Express for A400E
Be easy to use: full software and hardware compatible with Digium's TDM400P. User
can use Diguim's X100M/S100M module on this card, or use our FXO-100/ FXS-100 Module
on TDM400P
RoHS Compliant
Certificates: A-Tick, CE and FCC
trixbox Officially Certified
Misc:(for A400P)
1)Temperature Operation: 0 to 50°C
2)Temperature Storage: - 40 to 125°C
3)Humidity:10 TO 90% NON-CONDENSING
4)Voltage:5/12V,3REN
5)Power Dissipation Max:2.77W/11.6W
Misc:(for A400E)
1) Temperature Operation: 0 to 50°C
2) Temperature Storage: - 40 to 125°C
3) Humidity:10 TO 90% NON-CONDENSING
4) Voltage:3.3/12V,3REN
5) Power Dissipation Max:2.06W/11.6W
Disclaimers
Asterisk® is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc.
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2. What is Asterisk:
The Definition of Asterisk is described as follow:
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. Asterisk does
voice over IP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based
telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
Figure 1: Asterisk Setup
Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive
Voice Response, Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID
services, ADSI, IAX, SIP, H.323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager
only) and SCCP/Skinny(voip-info.org).
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Chapter 2 Software Installation and Configuration
Before installing the software, user should have some fundamental knowledge of Linux.
Some commands are needed such as cd, tar and vi. Let’s go through the steps:
1. Hardware Installation and Setup
1. Power off your pc, remember unplug the AC power cable
2. Insert A400P/A400E into a 3.3V or 5.0V PCI slot or PCI express slot
3. If the card equips FXS modules (green color), plugging the power supply cable
(D style) into A400P. If you want to use the timing cable (A400E ver1.1 or
higher version) with pri cards, please make sure the timing cable is plugged
into output on A400E, and timing cable is connected into the input on other
card, you can refer more detail in this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=874&extra=page%3D
4. Plug back the AC power cable, and power on PC.
2. Software Installation and Setup
1) Checking the A400P/A400E hardware by command: lspci –vvvv
From figure 2, user can see that that one device called communication
controller be found.
Figure 2: Hardware detection
2) Install supporting packages
TO install A400P/A400E, user needs install the following packages before
compiling asterisk and zaptel driver:
kernel-devel
zlib
zlib-devel
openssl
openssl-devel
3) Download zaptel and asterisk
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User can download the source code from asterisk.org. Unzip those packages
under /usr/src
4) Compile zaptel-XXX and asterisk-XXX
Under /usr/src, execute the commands:
cd zaptel-XXX
./configure
make
make install
make config
cd asterisk-XXX
./configure
make
make install
make samples
Edit /etc/zaptel.conf file, here the example file likes this:
Figure 3: zaptel.conf
After installing zaptel and asterisk, user executes:
modprobe zaptel
modprobe wctdm
ztcfg –vvvvvvvvvvvv
After ztcfg command, system will show some information.
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Figure 4: ztcfg
5) Start asterisk
Before starting asterisk, please configure zapata.conf and extensions.conf
under /etc/asterisk. zapata-channel.conf is given as bellow:
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Figure 5: Zapata-channels.conf
Please make sure that zapata-channels.conf has been included into the
zapata.conf.
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Please edit the extensions.conf, make sure that there is a context called
from-pstn. An example is shown as bellow:
Figure 6: extensions.conf
Starting asterisk by:
asterisk –vvvvvvvgc
After starting asterisk, user should check status of zap channels first.
Under asterisk console, run command: zap show channels:
Figure 7: zap-show-channels
If user can see the zap channels, which means that the zap channels are loaded
successfully. After then, you can make inbound calls and the call will be
forward to first FXS channel:
Figure 8: inbound calls
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Chapter 3 Hardware Setting
Figure 9: hardware setting
Notes:
Test environments are:
Centos-5.0
Kernel version: 2.6.18-8.el5
Zaptel: 1.4.12.1
Asterisk: 1.4.20.1
Analog Card: OpenVox A400P
Some problems with compiling A400P/A400E have been summarized and documented into
FAQ of A400P/A400E; please check that under A400P/A400E categories.
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Chapter 4 References
www.openvox.cn
www.digium.com
www.asterisk.org
www.voip-info.org
www.asteriskguru.com
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