MAX 3000 Installation and Basic Configuration Guide
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About This Guide
This guide explains how to install and test the MAX
TM
3000 series hardware (referred to
hereafter as the MAX). It also explains how to navigate the user interface and set basic
Ethernet and line configuration parameters. When you finish with the instructions in this guide,
you will be ready to configure the MAX.
What is in this guide
This manual describes the full set of features for MAX 3000 units running software version
8.0. Some features are unavailable with earlier versions or specialty loads of the software.
Following is a chapter-by-chapter description of the topics in this guide:
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Chapter 1, “Getting Acquainted with the MAX,” describes the features of the MAX and
lists package contents.
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Chapter 2, “Setting Up and Testing the MAX Hardware,” explains how to install the MAX
unit on the network, insert expansion cards, and test the hardware.
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Chapter 3, “MAX User Interfaces,” tells how to access the MAX interface and associated
command-line interfaces and use them for configuring and monitoring the MAX unit. It
also introduces specialized interfaces available from Lucent or other sources.
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Chapter 4, “Preparing to Configure the MAX,” tells how to prepare to configure the MAX
by assigning an IP address, setting security parameters and passwords to protect the
configuration interface from unauthorized use, and setting basic system-related options.
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Chapter 5, “Basic Configuration Tasks,” describes how you use the True Access
™
Operating System (TAOS) Ether Options profile, Answer profile, and Connection profiles
to prepare the MAX unit to receive and send calls over Local Area Networks (LANs) and
Wide Area Networks (WANs).
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Chapter 6, “Quickstart,” explains how to configure and test your MAX unit’s Ethernet and
ISDN line interfaces.
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Chapter 7, “Next Steps,” summarizes additional configuration tasks you might need to
perform and provides references to other MAX documentation with related information.
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Appendix A, “Provisioning the Switch,” gives you information that your T1/ISDN
Primary Rate Interface (PRI), E1/PRI, or ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) service
provider needs to properly provision the Central Office switch.
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Appendix B, “Upgrading the MAX 3000,” describes how to upgrade memory, add
compression cards, and convert BRI S-interface models from Network Terminating (NT)
to Terminal Equipment (TE) and the reverse.
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Appendix C, “Cables and Connectors,” provides cabling requirements.
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Appendix D, “Safety-Related Electrical, Physical, and Environmental Information,” lists
the technical specifications of the MAX.
