
1/5/2007
EAG Gateway Series Administration Guidelines
MAG-06007 Rev. A
Support of Variety of End-User Devices
EAG supports analog telephones, faxes, and PBX devices.
Interoperability
EAG has completed the interoperability tests with soft switches and gateways from more than ten
telecommunication equipment manufacturers worldwide.
1.3 Hardware Platform
1.3.1
Physical
Figure 1. EAG Front View
①
One hot swappable main control module. The main
module supports three 10/100M Ethernet ports for IP
network and one console port (CON).
Two hot swappable slots that can be configured with
different interface cards.
②
&
③
All the Essence VOIP products offer modular, versatile, and high reliability features. EAG provides not
only the pure FXS (S port) and pure FXO (O port) line interface module but also mixed FXS/FXO line
interface module such as 4FXS/4FXO ( 4S/4) and 8FXS/8FXO ( 8S/8).
Both
②
and
③
slots can support 16S, 24S, 4FXO, 8FXO, 16FXO, 4S/4, and 8S/8 interface line
module. Users can configure the EAG gateway with different configurations by selecting different line
interface modules. The following table lists the most common configurations used by existing
customers:
Table 1. EAG Interface Slot Configuration Options
Interface
Type
Card Type
Slot
②
Slot
③
Life-Line PSTN Fallback
DS0s
EAG-16S
FXS-16
No
16
EAG-24S
FXS-24
No
24
Analog
EAG-8O
2