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Digium TE435 User Manual

Manual is about: TE430 Series

Summary of TE435

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    Te430 series te435b/te435/te436b/te436 user manual 601-00026 rev. B.

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    Digium, inc. Page 2 © digium, inc. 2014 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language without the prior written permission of digium, inc. Digium, inc. Has made ev...

  • Page 3: Compliance Information

    Digium, inc. Page 3 compliance information compliance information for this product is available at http://www.Digium.Com/compliance..

  • Page 4: Model

    Digium, inc. Page 4 introduction to te430 series documentation this manual is a user guide for digium’s te430 series cards. The digium te430 series cards are a t1/e1 capable card series created for voice. The cards in this series are as follows: te430 series cards model features type te435b te435 te...

  • Page 5: Document Organization

    Digium, inc. Page 5 document organization the te430 series user’s guide is organized in the following manner: chapter/ appendix title description 1 overview identifies the features of the card you received. This chapter covers applications and uses of the te430 series cards in the real world. 2 card...

  • Page 6: Symbol Definitions

    Digium, inc. Page 6 symbol definitions caution statements indicate a condition where damage to the unit or its configuration could occur if operational procedures are not followed. To reduce the risk of damage or injury, follow all steps or procedures as instructed. The esd symbol indicates electros...

  • Page 7: User Cautions

    Digium, inc. Page 7 important safety instructions save these instructions for future reference. User cautions servicing. Do not attempt to service this card unless specifically instructed to do so. Do not attempt to remove the card from your equipment while power is present. Refer servicing to quali...

  • Page 8: Able

    Digium, inc. Page 8 t able o f c ontents chapter 1 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 echo-cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 what is asterisk®? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

  • Page 9: Chapter 4

    Digium, inc. Page 9 table of contents configuring card features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 configuring t1/e1 lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 testing your configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

  • Page 10

    Digium, inc. Page 10 list of figures figure 1: sample legacy phone application . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 figure 2: sample channel bank application . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 figure 3: sample ip phone application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 figure 4: te435b card . . . . . . . . . . ....

  • Page 11

    Digium, inc. Page 11 list of tables table 1: card identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 table a-1: rj45 telco port connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 table b-2: maximum power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59.

  • Page 12

    Digium, inc. Page 12 chapter 1 overview the digium te430 series is a t1/e1 capable card series created for voice. The cards in this series support industry standard protocols, including robbed bit signaling (also known as cas or channel associated signaling), ccs (common channel signaling), e&m, and...

  • Page 13: Voice Modes:

    Digium, inc. Page 13 chapter 1: overview voice modes: pri cpe and pri net – ni1 – ni2 – euroisdn – 4ess (at&t) – 5ess (lucent) – dms100 – q.Sig e&m – wink – feature group b – feature group d fxo and fxs – ground start – loop start – loop start with disconnect detect the te430 series cards can be use...

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    Digium, inc. Page 14 chapter 1: overview figure 1: sample legacy phone application te4xx clec t1 pri t1 t1 asterisk server channel bank analog phones legacy pbx legacy pbx legacy phones.

  • Page 15: Clec

    Digium, inc. Page 15 chapter 1: overview figure 2: sample channel bank application clec asterisk server te4xx analog phones pri t1 t1 t1 channel bank channel bank channel bank.

  • Page 16: Clec

    Digium, inc. Page 16 chapter 1: overview figure 3: sample ip phone application clec asterisk server te4xx switch eth lan ip phones pri t1 pri t1.

  • Page 17: Echo-Cancellation

    Digium, inc. Page 17 chapter 1: overview echo-cancellation users connecting their te430 series cards to the pstn or other devices are likely to be placing calls that will result, at some point, in an unbalanced 4-wire/2-wire hybrid. The result of this hybrid is the reflection of a near-end echo to t...

  • Page 18: What Is Asterisk®?

    Digium, inc. Page 18 chapter 1: overview what is asterisk®? Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions.....

  • Page 19: Asterisk In The Call Center

    Digium, inc. Page 19 chapter 1: overview architecture allows it to convert between a wide range of communications protocols and media codecs. Asterisk as a feature/media server need an ivr? Asterisk’s got you covered. How about a conference bridge? Yep. It’s in there. What about an automated attenda...

  • Page 20: Asterisk Everywhere

    Digium, inc. Page 20 chapter 1: overview asterisk everywhere asterisk has become the basis for thousands of communications solutions. If you need to communicate, asterisk is your answer. For more information on asterisk, visit http://www.Asterisk.Org or http://www.Digium.Com..

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    Digium, inc. Page 21 chapter 2 card installation this chapter provides the following information: unpacking the card on page 22 shipment inspection on page 22 identifying communication ports on page 22 t1/e1 selection on page 25 connecting timing cables on page 25 slot compatibility on page 28 hardw...

  • Page 22: Unpacking The Card

    Digium, inc. Page 22 chapter 2: card installation unpacking the card when you unpack your card, carefully inspect it for any damage that may have occurred in shipment. If damage is suspected, file a claim with the carrier and contact your reseller from which the card was purchased, or contact digium...

  • Page 23: Figure 4: Te435B Card

    Digium, inc. Page 23 chapter 2: card installation figure 4: te435b card status leds pci express connector timing port 1 2 3 4.

  • Page 24: Figure 5: Te436B Card

    Digium, inc. Page 24 chapter 2: card installation figure 5: te436b card status leds pci express connector timing port 1 2 3 4.

  • Page 25: T1/e1 Selection

    Digium, inc. Page 25 chapter 2: card installation t1/e1 selection the te430 series cards can be configured for either t1 or e1 mode. The t1/e1 mode may be specified in the drivers using either the default_linemode=t1 or default_linemode=e1 module parameter when the drivers are loaded. This will set ...

  • Page 26: Timingcable=1

    Digium, inc. Page 26 chapter 2: card installation to utilize this feature, daisy-chain the p3 connector between each te430 series card using the digium 4-position timing cable. See figure 6 on page 26 for an example. Enable this feature in the drivers using the timingcable=1 switch when the drivers ...

  • Page 27: Caution.

    Digium, inc. Page 27 chapter 2: card installation caution. Only qualified service personnel should continue with hardware installation and configuration of the te430 series card. Non-qualified personnel should not attempt to perform these functions themselves. The installer must ensure that the equi...

  • Page 28: Slot Compatibility

    Digium, inc. Page 28 chapter 2: card installation slot compatibility check your motherboard to verify that a compatible slot is available for a te430 series card. To determine which slots you have on your motherboard, identify them by comparing them to those shown in figure 7. Slot number: 0: agp pr...

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    Digium, inc. Page 29 chapter 2: card installation the te435/te435b card is keyed for a pci express 1-lane (x1) slot and will work in any pcie revision 1.0 compliant slot, including lane lengths x4, x8, and x16. This means that in the motherboard shown in figure 7 on page 28, the te435/te435b card wi...

  • Page 30: Hardware Installation

    Digium, inc. Page 30 chapter 2: card installation hardware installation 1. Now that you are acquainted with the cards, power down your computer and unplug it from its power source. 2. Attach a static strap to your wrist and open the case. 3. Remove the bracket place holder and insert the card into a...

  • Page 31: Software Installation

    Digium, inc. Page 31 chapter 2: card installation software installation digium hardware requires drivers and libraries that are not integrated with the linux kernel. Digium hardware is only supported under linux. Digium recommends centos, debian, red hat, and ubuntu distributions of linux. However, ...

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    Digium, inc. Page 32 chapter 2: card installation to install your te430 series card, you will need: linux 2.6 kernel headers development libraries and headers for ncurses development libraries and headers for zlib and openssl development libraries and headers for newt gcc and standard software build...

  • Page 33: # Lspci -N

    Digium, inc. Page 33 chapter 2: card installation 1. After the machine has booted to linux, log in and execute the following command to list the devices detected by the pci bus: # lspci -n confirm that the output from lspci lists a device with digium’s pci vendor id which is “d161.” the screen outpu...

  • Page 34: Model

    Digium, inc. Page 34 chapter 2: card installation table 1: card identifiers a digium te430 series (te435b/te435/te436/te436b) card identifier should be listed. 2. Download the latest version of libpri. Substitute the version of libpri for the x.X in the command line below. Libpri is available for do...

  • Page 35: # Cd Libpri-X.X.X/

    Digium, inc. Page 35 chapter 2: card installation command lines below. # tar -zxvf libpri-x.X-current.Tar.Gz # cd libpri-x.X.X/ # make # make install 4. Download the latest dahdi drivers with tools. Dahdi is available for download from: http://downloads.Digium.Com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete ...

  • Page 36: Installing Asterisk

    Digium, inc. Page 36 chapter 2: card installation installing asterisk if you wish to use asterisk with your new hardware, you can follow the instructions below. 1. Download the latest release version of asterisk, either 1.4.22 (or later), 1.6.0.1 (or later), or 1.8.0 (or later). Substitute the versi...

  • Page 37: # Make Samples

    Digium, inc. Page 37 chapter 2: card installation 3. If this is the first asterisk installation on this system, you should install the sample configuration files. To do this, run: # make samples note: running this command will overwrite, after making a backup copy, any older asterisk configuration f...

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    Digium, inc. Page 38 chapter 3 configuration the te430 series cards have a variety of configuration options. This chapter provides configurations for pri, channel bank, and e&m wink. These sample configurations are provided to assist you in familiarizing yourself with the flexibility of editing the ...

  • Page 39: Configuring Card Features

    Digium, inc. Page 39 chapter 3: configuration configuring card features you will need to modify the chan_dahdi.Conf file which is located in the /etc/asterisk directory in order to configure the essential features of your card. This file is the configuration layer between dahdi and asterisk. Switcht...

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    Digium, inc. Page 40 chapter 3: configuration or echocancel = 256 (this sets 256 taps or 32ms) users of digium's hpec software have the following additional options: echocancel = 512 (this sets 512 taps or 64ms) or echocancel = 1024 (this sets 1024 taps or 128ms) please note that hpec consumes extre...

  • Page 41: Pri_Cpe For Cpe Side

    Digium, inc. Page 41 chapter 3: configuration signalling: pri_cpe for cpe side pri_net for net side if you have a t1 pri, add these lines to the following lines of the sample file. Signalling = pri_cpe switchtype = national group = 1 context = incoming channel => 1-23 e1 pri signalling = pri_cpe swi...

  • Page 42: Configuring T1/e1 Lines

    Digium, inc. Page 42 chapter 3: configuration configuring t1/e1 lines 1. Begin byopening the system.Conf file from the /etc/dahdi directory. 2. Specify the two letter country code for your loadzone and defaultzone. This will preload tone zone data and specify a default tone zone for your interfaces....

  • Page 43: Timing:

    Digium, inc. Page 43 chapter 3: configuration timing: this determines how timing is handled by the card. 0 - this span is not used to determine timing. If all spans on the card are set to 0, the card will use its internal clock as the timing source. 1, 2, 3,... - a value greater than 0 will cause th...

  • Page 44: Framing:

    Digium, inc. Page 44 chapter 3: configuration framing: t1 utilizes framing set for d4 (sf) or esf. E1 utilizes cas or ccs. Coding: t1 coding can be ami or b8zs. E1 coding can be ami or hdb3. E1 can also have the extra flag crc4 at the end for crc4 checking. Yellow: the optional yellow flag can be ad...

  • Page 45: Echocanceller = ,

    Digium, inc. Page 45 chapter 3: configuration linux package. You can specify the echo canceller to be used for each channel. The default behavior is for there to be no echo canceller on any channel. So, it is very important that you specify one in the system.Conf file if you do not have hardware ech...

  • Page 46: System.Conf

    Digium, inc. Page 46 chapter 3: configuration first example: channel bank the channel bank in this example has 24 fxs ports. In this configuration, the system.Conf is set for the card to provide timing to the channel bank and fxoks is set for 24 stations. Set chan_dahdi.Conf to mirror the configurat...

  • Page 47: System.Conf

    Digium, inc. Page 47 chapter 3: configuration second example: e&m line in the e&m line configuration, the system.Conf is set for the card to take timing from the telco on e&m with wink while chan_dahdi.Conf mirrors the configuration. Feat_d is a type of e&m with wink that accepts did, but there are ...

  • Page 48: System.Conf

    Digium, inc. Page 48 chapter 3: configuration third example: pri by configuring the card for a t1 pri line in system.Conf , you acquire 23 bearer (b) channels for voice on the first 23 channels, and 1 delta (d) channel for signalling information on the 24th channel. In the chan_dahdi.Conf file, defi...

  • Page 49: Pri E1:

    Digium, inc. Page 49 chapter 3: configuration pri e1: /etc/dahdi/system.Conf: loadzone = es defaultzone = es span = 1,1,0,ccs,hdb bchan = 1-15,17-31 dchan = 16 echocanceller = mg2,1-15,17-31 /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.Conf: group = 1 echocancel = yes signalling = pri_cpe switchtype = euroisdn context ...

  • Page 50: Testing Your Configuration

    Digium, inc. Page 50 chapter 3: configuration testing your configuration 1. Load dahdi drivers into the kernel using the modprobe utility. The appropriate driver for the te430 series cards is wcte43x. Users in all countries except australia should use the following modprobe command: # modprobe wcte4...

  • Page 51: Extensions.Conf.

    Digium, inc. Page 51 chapter 4 troubleshooting this chapter provides frequently asked questions as identified from digium technical support and possible resolutions. Multiple resources are available to obtain more information about asterisk and digium products. These resources are listed on page 56....

  • Page 52: Reload

    Digium, inc. Page 52 chapter 4: troubleshooting 2. Then type reload in the asterisk console and call in. You should see the did come in on your t1/e1 line. My d channel seems to go up and down. Check to be sure you have set your timing parameters correctly. Also, check the common causes of problems ...

  • Page 53: System.Conf

    Digium, inc. Page 53 chapter 4: troubleshooting i am still having problems and the telco tells me it is my equipment. The first thing to do in this situation is to test your equipment. 1. Plug in a loopback cable. (a loopback cable is a cable that has pin 1 going to pin 4 and pin 2 going to pin 5.) ...

  • Page 54: # Make Tests

    Digium, inc. Page 54 chapter 4: troubleshooting 3. Navigate to the tools/ directory in your dahdi complete source directory and type: # make tests followed by: # ./patlooptest /dev/dahdi/1 60 the first argument in the patlooptest command is the device for the channel number you want to test. You sho...

  • Page 56: #asterisk

    Digium, inc. Page 56 chapter 4: troubleshooting where can i find answers to additional questions? There are several places to inquire for more information about asterisk digium products: 1. Digium technical support (+1.256.428.6161), or toll free in the u.S. (1.877.344.4861), is available 7am-8pm ce...

  • Page 57: Pin

    Digium, inc. Page 57 appendix a pin assignments all four ports on the te430 series card bracket are 8-pin rj45 ports. The pin assignments are identified in table a-1. Table a-1: rj45 telco port connector pin description 1 rx 2 rx 3 not used 4 tx 5 tx 6 not used 7 not used 8 not used pin 8 pin 1.

  • Page 58: Physical (All Cards).

    Digium, inc. Page 58 appendix b specifications this appendix provides specifications, required environmental conditions, and maximum power consumption for the te430 series cards. Physical (all cards). Size: 5” × 2.72” x 0.591” (12.7cm x 6.9cm x 1.5cm) pcb size, does not include the pci bracket weigh...

  • Page 59: Model

    Digium, inc. Page 59 appendix b: specifications hardware and software requirements. 800-mhz pentium iii or better 64mb ram available pci-e slot (te435/te435b) available pci (te436/te436b) table b-2: maximum power consumption model power te435b 5 watts te435 2.5 watts te436b 5 watts te436 2.5 watts.

  • Page 60: Acd

    Digium, inc. Page 60 appendix c glossary and acronyms acd automatic call distribution a technology that distributes incoming calls to a specific group of devices that are associated to agents. Asterisk's queue application performs automatic call distribution. Ansi american national standards institu...

  • Page 61: Bit

    Digium, inc. Page 61 appendix c glossary and acronyms bit the smallest element of information in a digital system. A bit can be either a zero or a one. Bps bits per second a measurement of transmission speed across a data connection. Bri basic rate isdn broadband broadband transmission shares the ba...

  • Page 62: Clec

    Digium, inc. Page 62 appendix c glossary and acronyms medium. Clec competitive local exchange carrier a term for telephone companies established after the telecommunications act of 1996 deregulated the lecs. Clecs compete with ilecs to offer local service. See also ilec. Co central office the co hou...

  • Page 63: Ds1

    Digium, inc. Page 63 appendix c glossary and acronyms ds1 digital signal, level 1 1.544 mbps in north america (t1) and japan (j1) -up to 24 voice channels (ds0s), 2.048 mbps in europe (e1) - up to 32 voice channels (ds0s). Ds1/t1/e1 lines are part of the pstn. Ds3 digital signal, level 3 t3 in north...

  • Page 64: Fxo

    Digium, inc. Page 64 appendix c glossary and acronyms fxo foreign exchange office receives the ringing voltage from an fxs device. Outside lines are connected to fxo ports. Fxs foreign exchange station initiates and sends ringing voltage. Phones are connected to fxs ports. G.711 a recommendation by ...

  • Page 65: Iax

    Digium, inc. Page 65 appendix c glossary and acronyms iax inter-asterisk exchange the native voice over ip (voip) protocol used by asterisk. It is an ietf standard used to enable voip connections between asterisk servers, and between servers and clients that also use the iax protocol. Ilbc internet ...

  • Page 66: Mgcp

    Digium, inc. Page 66 appendix c glossary and acronyms mgcp media gateway control protocol multiplexing transmitting multiple signals over a single line or channel. Fdm (frequency division multiplexing) and tdm (time division multiplexing) are the two most common methods. Fdm separates signals by div...

  • Page 67: Pop

    Digium, inc. Page 67 appendix c glossary and acronyms pop point of presence the physical connection point between a network and a telephone network. A pop is usually a network node serving as the equivalent of a co to a network service provider or an interexchange carrier. Pots plain old telephone s...

  • Page 68: Ptt

    Digium, inc. Page 68 appendix c glossary and acronyms ptt post, telegraph, and telephone the government agencies in many countries that traditionally operated and monopolized the public postal, telegraph, and telephone services. Qos quality of service a set of quality requirements for telephone serv...

  • Page 69: Tdm

    Digium, inc. Page 69 appendix c glossary and acronyms t1 a dedicated digital carrier facility which transmits up to 24 voice channels (ds0s) and transmits data at 1.544 mbps. Commonly used to carry traffic to and from private business networks and isps. T3 a dedicated digital carrier facility which ...

  • Page 70: Twisted Pair

    Digium, inc. Page 70 appendix c glossary and acronyms twisted pair two copper wires commonly used for telephony and data communications. The wires are wrapped loosely around each other to minimize radio frequency interference or interference from other pairs in the same bundle. V volts voip voice ov...