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Chapter 3: Configuration 

Testing Your Configuration 

Using DAHDI: 

1.  

Load DAHDI drivers into the kernel using the 

modprobe

 utility. The 

appropriate driver for the B410P cards is 

wcb4xxp

. Execute the 

following commands: 

# modprobe wcb4xxp  
# dahdi_cfg -vv  
# dmesg  

Figure 7: Example dmesg Output 

Note: 

Output as shown above may vary slightly. 

Digium, Inc.  

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Summary of Contents for B410P

Page 1: ...B410P User Manual 601 00001 Rev B3...

Page 2: ...error free The manufacturer will if necessary explain issues which may not be covered by this documentation The manufacturer s liability for any errors in the documents is limited to the correction o...

Page 3: ...ComplianceInformation Compliance information for this product is available at http www digium com ccs compliance Digium Inc Page 3...

Page 4: ...410P in the real world 2 Card Installation Provides instructions for installing the card in your PC acquiring correct drivers and checking device compatibility 3 Configuration Provides steps for confi...

Page 5: ...es as instructed The ESD symbol indicates electrostatic sensitive devices Observe precautions for handling devices Wear a properly grounded electrostatic discharge ESD wrist strap while handling the d...

Page 6: ...it Do not operate this equipment in a wet environment Heat Do not operate or store this product near heat sources such as radiators air ducts areas subject to direct intense sunlight or other products...

Page 7: ...Asterisk Everywhere 13 Chapter 2 Card Installation 14 Unpacking the Card 15 Inspecting the Shipment 15 Identifying Communication Ports 16 Selecting NT or TE Mode 18 Terminating the NT Mode Line 19 Ins...

Page 8: ...the interface to Asterisk 37 Enabling Echo Cancellation 40 40 Test Configuration 40 Chapter 4 Troubleshooting 43 Appendix A Pin Assignments 48 Appendix B Specifications 49 Appendix C Glossary and Acr...

Page 9: ...mple Card Application 11 Figure B410P Card 17 Figure NT and TE Mode Jumper Positions 18 Figure NT Termination Switches 19 Figure Jumpers Reserved for Future Use 20 Figure Insert the Card 21 Figure Exa...

Page 10: ...List of Tables Table A 1 RJ45 ISDN BRI S T Port Connector 48 Table B 2 Maximum Power Consumption 50 Digium Inc Page 10...

Page 11: ...twork Termination NT device When configured as an NT device it is the source of BRI lines as shown in Figure 1 The B410P can also improve voice quality in environments where software echo cancellation...

Page 12: ...nd connecting callers with the outside world over IP analog POTS and digital T1 E1 connections Asterisk runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux Mac OS X OpenBSD FreeBSD and Sun Sol...

Page 13: ...added new life to existing call center solutions by adding remote IP agent capabilities advanced skills based routing predictive and bulk dialing and more AsteriskintheNetwork Internet Telephony Servi...

Page 14: ...e Card on page 15 Inspecting the Shipment on page 15 Identifying Communication Ports on page 16 Selecting NT or TE Mode on page 18 Terminating the NT Mode Line on page 19 Installing the Hardware on pa...

Page 15: ...r from which the card was purchased or contact Digium Technical Support 1 256 428 6161 Keep the original shipping container to use for future shipment or proof of damage during shipment Note Only qual...

Page 16: ...port is Port 1 and the bottom port is Port 4 See Figure 2 on page 17 for appropriate identification of these ports Note It is important to identify the type of BRI line each port is configured for ei...

Page 17: ...Chapter 2 Card Installation Status LEDs Ports 1 2 3 4 Keyed for 3 3 or 5 volt PCI Figure 2 B410P Card Digium Inc Page 17...

Page 18: ...of the connector for NT mode or place it on the right side for TE mode as shown in Figure 3 The default setting is TE mode Notice in Figure 5 on page 20 there is an additional set of jumpers which is...

Page 19: ...mode See Figure 4 for a detailed illustration of this setting This switch must not be turned on in TE mode The default setting is Off Caution Only qualified service personnel should continue with har...

Page 20: ...stallingtheHardware 1 Now that you are acquainted with your card power down your computer and unplug it from its power source 2 Attach a static strap to your wrist and open the case 3 Check the NT or...

Page 21: ...Chapter 2 Card Installation Figure 6 Insert the Card 5 Replace the cover to your computer 6 Plug all ISDN equipment cables into the RJ45 ports as needed 7 Power on your computer Digium Inc Page 21...

Page 22: ...e including drivers and application software may be obtained from Digium s download server at http downloads digium com For an introduction to Asterisk Digium s telephony software including additional...

Page 23: ...ote The new method for configuring the B410P requires Asterisk 1 6 or later DAHDI and libpri 1 4 4 or later If you wish to use the old unsupported method which works with Asterisk 1 4 you will need to...

Page 24: ...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 download from http downloads asterisk org pub telephony libpri wg...

Page 25: ...ium com pub telephony dahdi linux complete dahdi linux complete current tar gz 5 Expand the downloaded file compile its contents and install the drivers and tools Substitute the version of DAHDI for t...

Page 26: ...r mISDN is listed in Chapter 3 Configuration Please be aware that Digium does not provide support for mISDN 1 Download the latest release version of Asterisk Substitute the version of Asterisk for the...

Page 27: ...y older Asterisk configuration files that you have in the etc asterisk directory If your installation has failed it may be because you are missing one or more of the build dependencies the kernel head...

Page 28: ...lity of editing the configuration files to meet your specific needs The list of possible configurations is too expansive to cover in this user manual Most sections in this chapter include two sub sect...

Page 29: ...default tone zone for your interfaces The following is a typical setup for a telco in Spain loadzone es defaultzone es 3 Configure the Span Map For each BRI line you are using you will need to define...

Page 30: ...determines how timing is handled by the card 0 Card provides its own timing 1 Receives timing from remote end 2 Receives secondary backup timing from remote end 3 Receives tertiary backup timing from...

Page 31: ...266 feet DSX 1 2 266 399 feet DSX 1 3 399 533 feet DSX 1 4 533 655 feet DSX 1 5 7 5db CSU 6 15db CSU 7 22 5db CSU Framing BRI utilizes CCS framing Coding BRI utilizes AMI coding Yellow The optional y...

Page 32: ...he sample system conf file The following is a typical setup for BRI bchan 1 2 hardhdlc 3 The bchan device specifies the bearer channels B channels The hardhdlc device specifies the delta channel D cha...

Page 33: ...typical system conf setup for BRI loadzone es defaultzone es span 1 1 0 ccs ami bchan 1 2 hardhdlc 3 span 2 0 0 ccs ami bchan 4 5 hardhdlc 6 span 3 0 0 ccs ami bchan 7 8 hardhdlc 9 span 4 0 0 ccs ami...

Page 34: ...Chapter 3 Configuration Using mISDN 1 Execute the following etc init d misdn init config 2 Edit the following appropriately it is self documented etc misdn init conf Digium Inc Page 34...

Page 35: ...AHDI drivers into the kernel using the modprobe utility The appropriate driver for the B410P cards is wcb4xxp Execute the following commands modprobe wcb4xxp dahdi_cfg vv dmesg Figure 7 Example dmesg...

Page 36: ...ee if the span turns green for each span you have connected dahdi_tool Using mISDN 1 Load it by executing this command etc init d misdn init start 2 Make sure the driver successfully loaded lsmod grep...

Page 37: ...our card This file is the configuration layer between DAHDI and Asterisk Echo Cancellation Echo Cancellation is enabled in chan_dahdi conf by preceding the channel variable with a variable called echo...

Page 38: ...CPE side using Point to Multipoint bri_cpe_ptmp NET side using Point to Point bri_net NET side using Point to Multipoint bri_net_ptmp Requires libpri 1 4 11 or later Asterisk 1 8 or later and an exter...

Page 39: ...documenting the options that are available and their meaning It is recommended that you carefully review the options to set them appropriately An example misdn conf is provided below Be sure to set th...

Page 40: ...410P reduces CPU overhead required for software echo cancellation freeing resources for other processes such as codec translation The B410P provides 64ms of echo cancellation simultaneously on all eig...

Page 41: ...asterisk asterisk vvvr Using DAHDI Dial DAHDI 1 EXTEN Using mISDN Dial misdn 1 EXTEN If you would like to dial out over a group groups are defined by the categories or bracket enclosed titles within...

Page 42: ...can be obtained by contacting Digium Technical Support 1 256 428 6161 or visiting the website at www digium com You may also contact your distributor or reseller from which the card was purchased for...

Page 43: ...ed on page 47 What do the Status LED colors indicate Green Card is in sync with the far end Red Card is not seeing far end circuit is not up or cable is bad What type of cable do I need In all cases y...

Page 44: ...ne must be used when configured for NET PTMP I can t receive DID calls even though I have it enabled in extensions conf Make sure the ports are set to the correct jumper setting and that the chan_dahd...

Page 45: ...ng ps aux grep X If the X Window System is running stop the application since it may cause a conflict with Asterisk 2 Check to see if your PATA IDE hard drives are running with DMA levels set Advance...

Page 46: ...d hdparm vi dev IDE Device Use this command to set the drives into UDMA2 mode hdparm d 1 X udma2 c 3 dev IDE Device If you are still having problems contact your reseller from which the card was purch...

Page 47: ...ists digium com 3 IRC channel asterisk on irc freenode net Subscription Services Program Digium is dedicated to supporting your Asterisk system by offering full technical support through our Subscript...

Page 48: ...are 8 pin RJ45 ISDN BRI S T ports The pin assignments are identified in Table A 1 Table A 1 RJ45 ISDN BRI S T Port Connector Pin TE NT Pin 8 Pin 1 1 Unused Unused 2 Unused Unused 3 Tx Rx 4 Rx Tx 5 Rx...

Page 49: ...x 9 53 x 1 86 cm PCB size does not include the PCI bracket Weight 3 5 oz 109gm Interfaces Local Loop Access ISDN S T BRI RJ45 PCI Bus 3 3V or 5V bus slot half length slot minimum size 33MHz minimum b...

Page 50: ...ns Hardware and Software Requirements 800 Mhz processor or better 64MB RAM Available 2 2 PCI Slot as described previously Table B 2 Maximum Power Consumption Model Power B410P 3 3V 2 5 Watts 5V 5 3 Wa...

Page 51: ...f each character Asynchronous communications are often found in internet access and remote office applications attenuation The dissipation of a transmitted signal s power as it travels over a wire ban...

Page 52: ...echniques to transmit multiple channels over a common medium Cat5 Category of Performance for wiring and cabling Cat 5 cabling support applications up to 100 MHz Cat5E Category of Performance for wiri...

Page 53: ...et top boxes DAHDI Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface A telephony project dedicated to implementing a reasonable and affordable computer telephony platform into the world marketplace Also the c...

Page 54: ...smits data at 2 048 Mbps up to 32 voice channels DS0s E3 The European equivalent of North American T3 transmits data at 34 368 Mbps up to 512 voice channels DS0s Equivalent to 16 E1 lines EMI Electrom...

Page 55: ...ndardization Sector ITU T for an algorithm designed to transmit and receive audio over telephone lines at 6 3 Kbps or 5 3 Kbps G 729a A recommendation by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector I...

Page 56: ...have the dominant position in the market interface A point of contact between two systems networks or devices ISO International Standards Organization LED light emitting diode Linux A robust feature...

Page 57: ...cations line or channel See multiplexing PBX private branch exchange A smaller version of a phone company s large central switching office Example Asterisk PCI peripheral component interconnect A stan...

Page 58: ...network which uses telephones to establish connections between two points Also referred to as the dial network QoS quality of service A measure of telephone service as specified by the Public Service...

Page 59: ...ission of multiple data streams into a single high speed data stream TDM separates signals by interleaving bits one after the other telco A generic name which refers to the telephone companies through...

Page 60: ...Appendix C Glossary and Acronyms V volts VoIP Voice over IP Technology used for transmitting voice traffic over a data network using the Internet Protocol Digium Inc Page 60...

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