Installation of CaudalFin E1/T1/J1 (PRI) Cards

  Asterisk, PRI Card

Overview

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CaudalFins’s CF-4201 series PCIe cards are high-performance, cost effective telephony cards available with carrier grade optional hardware echo cancellation. The CF-4201 cards allows up to 24 (T1) or 30 (E1) channels.

Unique hardware architecture enables superior performance at a low price point to enable small and medium business to fully leverage Unified Communication solution at a superior value proposition compared to competng solutions.

CaudalFin™ digital cards are designed to work with Open Source based VoIP platforms such as Asterisk® (e.g. PBX in a Flash®, FreePBX® Elastix®) & FreeSWITCH®.

CaudalFin’s Line Cards are manufactured in state of the art ISO 9001:2001 certified facilities in India.

OPERATING SYSTEMS
  • Linux Kernel       : 2.4 to Latest

VOICE PLATFORMS
  • Astersik                : 1.4 to Latest

  • FreeSWITCH        : > 1.2.7

  • Yate                     : Under Dev.

UNIQUE FEATURES
  • 2U rack / server mountable

  • Tapping capable

  • Ease of installation (no patches required for installation)

LINE CODING
  • HDB3, AMI, B8ZS

APPLICATIONS
  • Legacy PBX/IVR Services

  • VoIP Services

  • Complex IVR Applications

  • Conference Bridges

  • VoIP Gateways

  • Calling Card Platforms

  • PRI Switch Compatiblity : Network or CPE

  • Voice Tapping

Installation of CaudalFin E1/T1/J1 (PRI) Cards 

Quick Start Installation Guide

 

Unique Features

§  On Board  DMA

§  On Board Hardware HDLC

§  2U Form Factor

§  Local Support

§  Multiple Cards in Single

Server

§  Customer Friendly RMA Policy

 

Operating Systems

   Linux Kernels : 2.4 to Latest

Voice Platforms

   Asterisk           : 1.4 to Latest

   FreeSWITCH   : >1.2.7

Key Features

       Hardware Installation       Software Installation

CaudalFin hardware, PCI/PCIe Line Cards requires Drivers and Libraries, which are not included in the standard Linux Kernel. CaudalFin hardware works on Linux platforms which has 2.4 and above kernels.

 

 

CaudalFin recommends CentOS, Debian, RedHat, and Ubuntu distributions of Linux.

 

**Note: Following commands are listed assuming that the user is using CentOS 5.7. Installation sequence does not vary from Distro to Distro though commands might be different from one another.

After the installation of CentOS , follow the steps given below to install     CaudalFin Dahdi drivers, LibPri and Asterisk.

 

 

 

Resolving Dependencies

$sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make wget  subversion libxml2-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel vim-enhanced

 

Installation of CaudalFin E1/T1/J1 (PRI) Cards                                       

Installation Sequence

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1. CaudalFin DAHDI Drivers

Copy CaudalFin DAHDI Drivers to

/usr/src folder

Extract the tar file using the following command

$tar –zxvf dahdi-linux-complete-X.X.X+X.X.X.tar.gz

Go to the Extracted Dahdi directory  by using the following command $cd dahdi-linux-complete-2.6.1+2.6.1

Use the following commands to install CaudalFin DAHDI drivers:

  1. $make clean   $make configure
  2. $make distclean $ dahdi_genconf
  3. $make all $dahdi_genconf modules
  4. $make install

 

2.Installation of libpri

3.Installation of Asterisk

After installing the latest version of dahdi and libpri download the latest release version of Asterisk,  either 1.4.22 (or later) or 1.6.0.1 (or later).

Substitute the version of Asterisk for the X.X in the command given below.

Asterisk is available for download from: Index of /pub/telephony/asterisk or you can directly  download from command line by giving the  following command:

$wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony

/asterisk/asterisk-X.X-current.tar.gz

After downloading asterisk, extract the asterisk tar file  by giving following command. $ tar -zxvf asterisk-X.X-current.tar.gz

To install libpri first you have to download the latest  version of LibPri. Substitute the version of libpri for To install asterisk give the following commands:  the X.X in the command given bellow.

  1. $ cd asterisk-X.X/ $ make
  2. $ make clean       $  make install

To download latest version of LibPri give the following

  1. $ . /configure       $  make samples command.
  2. $ make menuselect

$ wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony

After downloading LibPri extract the LibPri tar file by

1. the command given below.

2.

3. $ tar -zxvf libpri-X.X-current.tar.gz

4.

5. Install the LibPri by following the commands given below: 6. 7.

$ dahdi_genconf

$ dahdi_genconf modules

$ killall asterisk

$ service dahdi stop

Service dahdi start

Asterisk

Asterisk -vvvvvr

/libpri/libpri-X.X-current.tar.gz

 

4.Completing the Installation

  1. $cd libpri-X.X/ $make all
  2. $make clean $make install

 

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