User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Revision History
- About This Publication
- 1. Product Description
- 2. Programming Models
- 3. Device Handling
- 4. Event Handling
- 5. Error Handling
- 6. Application Development Guidelines
- 7. Call Progress Analysis
- 7.1 Call Progress Analysis Overview
- 7.2 Call Progress and Call Analysis Terminology
- 7.3 Call Progress Analysis Components
- 7.4 Using Call Progress Analysis on DM3 Boards
- 7.5 Call Progress Analysis Tone Detection on DM3 Boards
- 7.6 Media Tone Detection on DM3 Boards
- 7.7 Default Call Progress Analysis Tone Definitions on DM3 Boards
- 7.8 Modifying Default Call Progress Analysis Tone Definitions on DM3 Boards
- 7.9 Call Progress Analysis Errors
- 7.10 Using Call Progress Analysis on Springware Boards
- 7.11 Call Progress Analysis Tone Detection on Springware Boards
- 7.12 Media Tone Detection on Springware Boards
- 7.13 Default Call Progress Analysis Tone Definitions on Springware Boards
- 7.14 Modifying Default Call Progress Analysis Tone Definitions on Springware Boards
- 7.15 SIT Frequency Detection (Springware Only)
- 7.15.1 Tri-Tone SIT Sequences
- 7.15.2 Setting Tri-Tone SIT Frequency Detection Parameters
- 7.15.3 Obtaining Tri-Tone SIT Frequency Information
- 7.15.4 Global Tone Detection Tone Memory Usage
- 7.15.5 Frequency Detection Errors
- 7.15.6 Setting Single Tone Frequency Detection Parameters
- 7.15.7 Obtaining Single Tone Frequency Information
- 7.16 Cadence Detection in Basic Call Progress Analysis (Springware Only)
- 8. Recording and Playback
- 8.1 Overview of Recording and Playback
- 8.2 Digital Recording and Playback
- 8.3 Play and Record Functions
- 8.4 Play and Record Convenience Functions
- 8.5 Voice Encoding Methods
- 8.6 G.726 Voice Coder
- 8.7 Transaction Record
- 8.8 Silence Compressed Record
- 8.9 Recording with the Voice Activity Detector
- 8.10 Streaming to Board
- 8.11 Pause and Resume Play
- 8.12 Echo Cancellation Resource
- 9. Speed and Volume Control
- 10. Send and Receive FSK Data
- 11. Caller ID
- 12. Cached Prompt Management
- 13. Global Tone Detection and Generation, and Cadenced Tone Generation
- 13.1 Global Tone Detection (GTD)
- 13.1.1 Overview of Global Tone Detection
- 13.1.2 Global Tone Detection on DM3 Boards versus Springware Boards
- 13.1.3 Defining Global Tone Detection Tones
- 13.1.4 Building Tone Templates
- 13.1.5 Working with Tone Templates
- 13.1.6 Retrieving Tone Events
- 13.1.7 Setting GTD Tones as Termination Conditions
- 13.1.8 Maximum Amount of Memory for Tone Templates
- 13.1.9 Estimating Memory
- 13.1.10 Guidelines for Creating User-Defined Tones
- 13.1.11 Global Tone Detection Application
- 13.2 Global Tone Generation (GTG)
- 13.3 Cadenced Tone Generation
- 13.3.1 Using Cadenced Tone Generation
- 13.3.2 How To Generate a Custom Cadenced Tone
- 13.3.3 How To Generate a Non-Cadenced Tone
- 13.3.4 TN_GENCAD Data Structure - Cadenced Tone Generation
- 13.3.5 How To Generate a Standard PBX Call Progress Signal
- 13.3.6 Predefined Set of Standard PBX Call Progress Signals
- 13.3.7 Important Considerations for Using Predefined Call Progress Signals
- 13.1 Global Tone Detection (GTD)
- 14. Global Dial Pulse Detection
- 14.1 Key Features
- 14.2 Global DPD Parameters
- 14.3 Enabling Global DPD
- 14.4 Global DPD Programming Considerations
- 14.5 Retrieving Digits from the Digit Buffer
- 14.6 Retrieving Digits as Events
- 14.7 Dial Pulse Detection Digit Type Reporting
- 14.8 Defines for Digit Type Reporting
- 14.9 Global DPD Programming Procedure
- 14.10 Global DPD Example Code
- 15. R2/MF Signaling
- 16. Syntellect License Automated Attendant
- 17. Building Applications
- Glossary
- Index

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3.Device Handling
This chapter describes the concept of a voice device and how voice devices are named and used.
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3.1 Device Concepts
The following concepts are key to understanding devices and device handling:
device
A device is a computer component controlled through a software device driver. A resource
board, such as a voice resource, fax resource, and conferencing resource, and network
interface board, contains one or more logical board devices. Each channel or time slot on the
board is also considered a device.
device channel
A device channel refers to a data path that processes one incoming or outgoing call at a time
(equivalent to the terminal equipment terminating a phone line). The first two numbers in the
product naming scheme identify the number of device channels for a given product. For
example, there are 24 voice device channels on a D/240JCT-T1 board, 30 on a D/300JCT-E1.
device name
A device name is a literal reference to a device, used to gain access to the device via an
xx_open( ) function, where “xx” is the prefix defining the device to be opened. For example,
“dx” is the prefix for voice device and “fx” for fax device.
device handle
A device handle is a numerical reference to a device, obtained when a device is opened using
xx_open( ), where “xx” is the prefix defining the device to be opened. The device handle is
used for all operations on that device.
physical and virtual boards
The API functions distinguish between physical boards and virtual boards. The device driver
views a single physical voice board with more than four channels as multiple emulated D/4x
boards. These emulated boards are called virtual boards. For example, a D/120JCT-LS with 12
channels of voice processing contains three virtual boards. A DM/V480A-2T1 board with 48
channels of voice processing and two T1 trunk lines contains 12 virtual voice boards and two
virtual network interface boards.
3.2 Voice Device Names
The software assigns a device name to each device or each component on a board. A voice device is
named dxxxBn, where n is the device number assigned in sequential order down the list of sorted
voice boards. A device corresponds to a grouping of two or four voice channels.