A108 Installation

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A108 Voice and Data Telephony Card

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Overview

• Eight ports of T1, E1 or J1 available with Telco-grade hardware echo cancellation–the ultimate high-density solution

• The A108 supports up to 16.4 Mbps of full duplex data throughput or up to 240 voice calls using up to eight T1, E1, or J1 lines

• Supports Asterisk^®, FreeSwitch^™as well as other Open Source and proprietary PBX, Switch, IVR, and VoIP gateway applications

• Line Protocol Support: Voice CAS, MFC/R2, PRI, ATM, Frame Relay, X.25, HDLC, PPP, SS7, Transparent bit-stream, BSC

• uses Wanpipe Driver which includes a suite of configuration, operation and debugging utilities

Hardware Installation

Compatibility Note 

Sangoma Telephony cards are designed to be compatible with most commercially available motherboards.

PCI details

• Autosense compatibility with 5 V and 3.3 V PCI buses

• Maximum operational power for PCI: 3 W (0.6 A @ 5 V) For PCI Express: 2.5 W (0.76 A @ 3.3 V)

PCI-Express details

• 1 Lane PCI Express bus

• Compatible with 4x, 8x and 16x slots

Faceplate

Sangoma Telephony cards ship pre-installed with 1 U faceplate, along with a 2 U faceplate as accessory.

If you have a 2 U server, the 1 U faceplate will need to be removed to install the 2 U faceplate.
If this is your case, please view the following Demo which indicates which screws to remove and how to separate the card 

-> Demo

Telephony card installation is very simple:

1. Power off server and remove cover to access the PCI/PCIexpress slots

2. Identify the PCI/PCIexpress slot to be used for your telephony card

3. Remove the backplate for that slot, from the server. 

   1. This backplate may require screwdriver to remove screws before pulling off the backplate. Use your discretion

4. Insert the telephony card into the PCI/PCIexpress slot and verify it is firmly seated

5. With the faceplate lines up with the mounting bracket, screw it firmware in place.

   1. verify the E1/T1 ports are lined up and fully accessible from the back of the server before securing position

6. Plug in your E1/T1 cables into the telephony card

   1. if you are unsure of the pinouts, see below for details

7. Place server cover back on and power on

E1/T1 Cable Pinouts

The E1/T1 ports on your A108 telephony card are unique in that there are 2 E1/T1 ports per RJ45 connector.  
This is made possible by utilizing the 4 empty pins that are not used on a standard E1/T1.

Your Sangoma card is shipped with 4 E1/T1 Y cables. The single end plugs into a port on your Sangoma card, where the other end splits into two connectors, each a single E1/T1.
The cables are labels N and N+4 to help you identify the E1s.

Below is a pinout of the Y-cable shipped with your card. It is a straight through cable connection:

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If you require a cross-over y-cable, contact sangoma for a set of cables.
Below are the pinouts for the cross-over y-cable, in case you require to create your own cross over cables.

 The TIP and Ring details

Software Installation

Select your Installation type:

• Install with FreePBX Distro

• Install with your own Asterisk server

• Install with FreeSWITCH

• Install with API