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System Overview:
2.1 IP500 Office System Components
The following are the typical components of an IP Office IP500 system.
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IP Office IP500 System Unit
The control unit holds the main configuration and performs the
routing and switching for telephone calls and data traffic. Each
control unit includes LAN ports, slots for additional internal
cards and in some cases integral digital and analog phone
ports.
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IP500 Base Cards
The IP500 control unit has slots for up to 4 IP500 base cards.
These can be used to add analog extension port, digital
extension ports, voice compression channels and some legacy
IP400 cards.
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IP500 Digital Station Base Card
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IP500 Analog Phone Base Card
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IP500 VCM Base Card
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IP500 Legacy Card Carrier
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IP500 4-Port Expansion Base Card (IP Office 5.0+)
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IP500 Trunk Daughter Cards
Many of the IP500 base cards can be fitted with a IP500
daughter card in order to support various types of trunk
connections.
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IP500 Analog Trunk Card
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IP500 BRI Trunk Card
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IP500 PRI Trunk Card (IP Office 4.1+)
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IP400 Cards
The IP500 Legacy Carrier base card can be used to allow IP400
trunk cards and IP400 VCM cards to be added to the IP500
control unit.
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IP500 External Expansion Modules
Additional analog and digital extension ports can be added
using a number of IP500 external expansion modules.
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For IP Office 5.0+ systems, if an IP500 4-Port Expansion
Base Card is fitted then up to 12 external expansion
modules are supported.
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Support includes IP400 external expansion modules except
for WAN3 modules.
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Power Supplies
The IP500 control unit has an internal power supply unit. Each
external expansion module is supplied with an external power
supply unit. Additional power supply units may also be required
for IP phones and some phone add-ons.