Specifications

Engineering Guidelines

MiVoice Business Controller

The MiVoice Business controller provides the voice, signalling, central processing, and

communications resources for the system. There are several controller configurations

supported for release MiVoice Business 7.0 including 3300 ICP Controllers and industry

standard servers:

• AX controller with 512 MB memory

• CX/CXi controller with 512 MB memory (no longer manufactured)

• CX-II / CXi-II controller with 512 MB or 1024 MB memory

• LX controller with 512 MB memory (no longer manufactured)

• MXe Base or Expanded controller (no longer manufactured)

• MXe II Base or Expanded controller (no longer manufactured)

• MXe III Base or Expanded controller with 512MB or 1024MB memory

• MXe Server (no longer manufactured)

• MiVoice Business for Industry Standard Servers

• MiVoice Business Multi-instance

• Virtual MiVoice Business

The functionality of the 3300 controller can be expanded by installing optional modules such

as: Digital Signal Processors (DSP), Dual Fiber Interface Modules (FIM), Dual T1/E1 Framers,

Quad BRI Framers, and T1/E1 Combo Modules.

Processor Speeds

The processors used in the 3300 ICP family are optimized for use in high-end communications

equipment. Each unit has both a high-performance general purpose processor core and a

RISC-based communications processor module. The clock speeds listed in this documentation

refer to the external speeds of the devices and should not be compared to the internal clock

speeds used to describe the x86 family of desktop processors.

The MXe Server has a third processor, an X86 type. This processor is used for call control while

the other processors are used for real-time process control (RTC) and TDM to IP conversion

(E2T). The new processor uses a much higher clock speed (2 GHz) , but the performance of

the MXe Server is also improved by the sharing of the work load among more processors.

• The pure server configurations of MiVoice Business (MiVoice Business for ISS,

MiVoice Business Multi-instance, and Virtual MiVoice Business) use X86 processors ex-

clusively, with no dedicated processors (either CISC, RISC, or DSP based) for any of the

TDM functions. The CPUs in these servers will be multi-core, and usually there will be

multiple processors in each server.

Note: Refer to the Hardware Technical Reference Manual, available at Mitel Online, for

further details on the system components.