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5-2 INSTALLING TELEVANTAGE
Introduction
This chapter discusses the wide variety of phones that you can use with TeleVantage.
For instructions on how to connect your phones, see Chapter 6 in Installing Dialogic Telephony
Components.
For information on how to configure TeleVantage for your phones and phone features, see the
following in Administering TeleVantage:
Q Chapter 7, “Managing Stations”
Q Chapter 14, “Configuring SIP Internet Telephony”
Supported phones
TeleVantage supports the following phone types:
Q Analog phones and ADSI display phones. See page 5-2.
Q SIP desktop phones and softphones. See page 5-6.
Q H.323 phones. See page 5-10.
Q Digital phones. See page 5-11.
Using analog phones with TeleVantage_______________________
TeleVantage supports standard analog touchtone telephones (also called 2500 sets), including
ADSI phones and CLASS features. Multiline analog phones can also be used, but line use
indicator lights may not perform correctly on some models.
There are two ways to use analog phones with TeleVantage:
Q Install one or more Dialogic telephony boards that provide analog phone resources on
the TeleVantage Server. See “Supported analog station boards” in Chapter 4 in
Installing Dialogic Telephony Components for details.
Important:
For the most up-to-date board specifications, refer to the Excel file
SupportedTelephonyBoards.xls, included on the root directory of the Dialogic Drivers
CD.
Q Use a SIP gateway device with FXS ports to allow analog phone users to place and take
VoIP calls. See “Using gateway station/FXS ports with TeleVantage” on page 6-3 for
details.