B500 Installation

A500 BRI Telephony Card

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Overview

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

• Expand from 2 to 4 ports in mixed TE and NT modes as required.

• Changing modes requires no jumpers — simply invert the colour-coded module.

• Intelligent hardware: Field upgradable firmware to add new features related to voice and/or data as they become available.

• One S/T BRI module has two S/T four wire interfaces, which support TE or NT modes of operation

• Temperature Range: 0-50 Celsius

• Fully PCI Express compliant, compatible with all commercially available motherboards, proper sharing of PCI interrupts.

• Optimized DMA stream and hardware-level HDLC handling unloads the host CPU

• Raw bitstream interfaces can be used to support arbitrary non-strandard line protocols, such as non-byte aligned monosynch and bisynch

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

Hardware Configuration

-> NT Power Adapter "SPEC-BNPWR1" - More Info

• Change operational modes by flipping the colour-coded module

  • NT Mode = Green side

  • TE Mode = Red side

• Termination resistors need to be set to switch between operational modes

  • NT Mode = dip switch ON

  • TE Mode = dip switch OFF

• Port order is reverse linear from the PCI plug side  
  (Spans / RJ45 connectors are ordered right to left as in the figure below)
  
  

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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

BRI Cable Wiring 

Software Installation

Select your Installation type:

• Install with FreePBX Distro

• Install with your own Asterisk server

• Install with FreeSWITCH

• Install with API