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8 Port PRI Card- Quick Installation Guide                                                                 

 

 

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Summary of Contents for 2aCP8e series

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Page 2: ...The information in this document is Confidential to Allo and is legally privileged The information and this document are intended solely for the addressee Use of this document by anyone else for any other purpose is unauthorized If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure copying or distribution of this information is prohibited and unlawful Disclaimer Information in this document is subj...

Page 3: ...gies to draw User attention to certain pieces of information In order of how critical the information is to your system these items are marked as a note tip important caution or warning Icon Purpose Note Tip Best Practice Important Caution Warning o Bold indicates the name of the menu items options dialog boxes windows and functions o The color blue with underline is used to indicate cross referen...

Page 4: ...Dongle 7 2 4 Dongle Split End 8 2 5 Slot Compatibility 9 2 6 Hardware Installation 9 3 Software Configuration 10 3 1 T1 E1 Selection 10 3 2 E1 T1 mode settings 10 4 Software Installation Steps 12 4 1 Installation of Pre requisite packages 12 4 1 1 Installation of LibPRI package 12 4 2 Installation of Dahdi Driver 13 4 3 Installation of Asterisk 14 4 4 Enable Disable Hardware Echo Canceller 15 5 So...

Page 5: ...king up less space to allow for more peripherals Designed to be fully compatible with existing software applications and integrate fully with Asterisk platform the 2aCP8eL series cards allow many advanced call features In this manual we used 2aCP8eL PCI Express card These are identified collectively as the 2aCP8eL series cards throughout this manual 2 1 Hardware Echo Cancellation Users connecting ...

Page 6: ...ancellation across all channels and provides a G 168 compliant echo cancellation solution 2 2 Identifying Ports The 2aCP8eL series cards consists of 4 RJ45 Ports and eight status LEDs The ports are used for connecting T1 E1 or J1 cables via Y adapter dongles The 2aCP8eL series cards can be used without Y adaptor dongles but only spans 1 through 4 will be accessible 8 Port PRI PCIe card with LEC 2a...

Page 7: ...sion 2 1 7 8 port PRI Card Span Status LEDs 2 3 Y adopter Dongle The Y adopter dongles are provided for accessing all 8 spans on the 2aCP8eL series cards The following figure helps to identify a dongle and its split end ports Y Adapter Dongle Span Status LEDs ...

Page 8: ...8 Port PRI Card Quick Installation Guide www allo com Version 2 1 8 2 4 Dongle Split End Split A Split B Dongle Split End Connection Diagram ...

Page 9: ...ess 16 lane x16 Slot Motherboard slots The 2aCP8e series cards work PCIe x1 slot including lane lengths x4 x8 x16 The 2aCP8eL PRI card will fit into above motherboard slots PCI Express but cannot fit into any of the other slots 2 6 Hardware Installation 1 Now that you are acquainted with the 2aCP8e 2aCP8eL series cards power down your computer and unplug it from its power source 2 Attach a static ...

Page 10: ...ured 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 the mode for all spans on the card 3 2 E1 T1 mode settings By default the card is ready to use in E1 mode E1 Mode Add allo4xxp at the end of etc dahdi modules so that while starting dahdi driver Allo card...

Page 11: ...f etc modprobe d dahdi conf 4 Hardware Setup 2nd Generation 8 port PRI Card with Dongle Splits 1 Insert the 2nd Gen 8 port PRI PCIe card in the corresponding PCIe slot of the Server 2 Check if the installed PRI card is detected using the below command lspci If the card has been recognized it will be displayed in the output information root voiptest lspci 04 00 0 Non VGA unclassified device Device ...

Page 12: ...k 11 4 0 centos 6 2 kernel version 2 6 32 Telephony Card 8 port PRI PCIe card Model 2aCP8e 4 1 Installation of Pre requisite packages Install all of Asterisk s dependencies that are required to compile asterisk Run the followings commands to install the required packages needed for compiling drivers from source root localhost yum install bison bison devel ncurses ncurses devel zlib zlib devel open...

Page 13: ...allo com pri eight port card html under Guides Drivers Download the respective dahdi driver executing the following command wget http www allo com firmware pri card second gen dahdi dahdi linux complete 2 9 1 1 2 9 1 tar gz Extract the downloaded file and enter into that directory tar xvzf dahdi linux complete 2 9 1 1 2 9 1 tar gz Use the following commands to install DAHDI drivers cd dahdi linux ...

Page 14: ...s Dahdi Hardware Command 4 3 Installation of Asterisk Download the latest version of asterisk Asterisk is available for download from http downloads asterisk org pub telephony asterisk after downloading asterisk extract the asterisk tar file by giving following command wget http downloads asterisk org pub telephony asterisk asterisk 11 current tar gz Go to asterisk folder and compile the packages ...

Page 15: ...ervice start There are two settings need to be configured to use hardware echo cancellation module 1 Set the option echocanceller none for all spans in etc dahdi system conf For example configuring span 1 Span 1 ALLO2 0 1 T2XXP PCI Card 0 Span 1 MASTER span 1 1 0 ccs hdb3 crc4 termtype te bchan 1 15 17 31 dchan 16 echocanceller none 2 Echo Cancellation is enabled by default in chan_dahdi conf by t...

Page 16: ...e next step By running dahdi_genconf it will generate etc dahdi system conf and etc asterisk dahdi channels conf automatically Check whether the generated files information agrees with your hardware setup if not you should modify to your specific requirements Dahdi Channels Configure With asterisk Do not forget to confirm dahdi channels conf is included in chan_dahdi conf to configure Dahdi channe...

Page 17: ...e that PRI spans are up and active before making calls Here is the command to check the PRI span status CLI pri show spans PRI Span Status 8 Port PRI Card If you face any issues please contact the reseller from whom you have purchased the ALLO product or submit a support ticket http support allo com ...

Page 18: ...om Version 2 1 18 6 Appendix PIN Assignments All four ports on the 2aCP8e Series card bracket are 8 pin RJ45 ports The pin assignments are identified in the following table 2aCP8e Series RJ45 Telco Port Connector Dongle Split A RJ45 Telco Port Connector ...

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