Sangoma Card Howto

History

This document has been split into several ones:

	Administrator Guide	Service Assurance Guide
Sangoma 1	DRD_SangomaCardSupport_v1_AdminGuide	DRD_SangomaCardSupport_v1_ServiceAssurance
Sangoma 2	DRD_SangomaCardSupport_v2_AdminGuide	DRD_SangomaCardSupport_v2_ServiceAssurance

See also:

• the Sangoma module documentation
• the Cards Hardware Installation Guide

Introduction

There are two completely different way to use Sangoma cards with Escaux UCS solution.
The older solution used Zaptel for the integration with Asterisk. This solution supports baseline 1 and baseline 2.
The new one, called NetBorder, is using a SIP trunk to communicate with Asterisk. With the NetBorder solution, PRI, BRI and FXS port are completly abstracted from Asterisk point of view. NetBorder is only avalaible on Baseline 2.

For new installation, we recommend you to always use NetBorder when it's possible (See ISDN and analogue connectivity options).

Hardware combinations

Please refer to this document to know which combinations of cards are allowed.

Extract of this document:

Card combinations allowed for new install :

combined with	Standalone	4BRI (Sangoma B500) or 4BRI (B700)	4BRI-2FXS (Sangoma B700)	1PRI (Sangoma A101)	2PRI (Sangoma A102)	4PRI (Sangoma A104)	4FXS (Sangoma A200)
4BRI (Sangoma B500)		(7)
4BRI (Sangoma B700)		(7)
4BRI-2FXS (Sangoma B700)
1PRI (Sangoma A101)		(6)	(6)
2PRI (Sangoma A102)		(6)	(6)
4PRI (Sangoma A104)
4FXS (Sangoma A200)

Legend:

• : Supported
• : Not supported
• : Work in progress, will be updated soon
• : Combination already described in this table, check the diagonal mirror value.
• (6) : Please contact Escaux : This is a non-standard card combination or requires careful dimensioning.
• (7) : These cards can be combined to carry voice, but will in such a setup not carry fax/modem communication reliably. More information can be found here.

Hardware preparation and Installation

See Cards Hardware Preparation

Software installation

Using netBorder (Baseline 2)

See Sangoma Card Support 2 Admin Guide

Standard configurations

Identifier	Short description	Installation and configuration guide
C1	4 * BRIs( terminal mode, aggregated interfaces in a single channel group) + 2 FXSs	SangomaConfigurationC1
C2	8 * BRIs( terminal mode, aggregated interfaces in a single channel group) + 4 FXSs	SangomaConfigurationC2
C3	2 * BRIs( terminal mode, aggregated interfaces in a single channel group) + 2 FXSs	SangomaConfigurationC3
C4	1 *PRI( terminal mode, aggregated interfaces in a single channel group) + 4 FXSs	SangomaConfigurationC4

Using smgBri and Zaptel (Baseline 1)

See Sangoma Card Support 1 Admin Guide

Known problems

Debug

• SMGBri/Zaptel (Sangoma Support module 1.x): see the Service Assurance Guide for Sangoma 1