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6-2 INSTALLING TELEVANTAGE
Introduction _____________________________________________
TeleVantage supports VoIP gateway devices using the SIP protocol to provide a wide variety of
VoIP connectivity options for analog, T1, E1, or BRI trunks, and for analog devices including
analog phones and fax machines. You can use gateways no matter which method you use to
provide telephony resources on the TeleVantage Server (Dialogic HMP software or Dialogic
boards.)
This chapter lists supported gateways that provide the following types of ports:
Q Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)/FXO ports
Q Station/FXS ports
Q T1/E1/BRI ports
For requirements, see page 6-4.
Using gateway PSTN/FXO ports with TeleVantage ______________
The PSTN/Foreign eXchange Office (FXO) ports on IP gateways convert PSTN calls to VoIP
calls and vice versa. Gateways that provide FXO ports have one or more PSTN interfaces for
analog trunks, and also an ethernet interface to connect to your router or other data networking
equipment.
Once the gateway’s FXO ports and TeleVantage are properly configured, the ports appear as
TeleVantage SIP servers through which users can place and receive PSTN calls. A TeleVantage
user can make or receive regular calls via the gateway and not realize that the calls are being
transmitted using VoIP.
TeleVantage can also act as a full-featured PSTN/FXO gateway when Dialogic analog and
Internet trunk boards are installed on the TeleVantage Server. An advantage of using a
third-party gateway is that you can have your TeleVantage Server in one location, and connect
to the PSTN at any remote location using VoIP. Using this approach, your TeleVantage Server
could be in Boston and the gateway could be initiating and receiving calls in a remote office in
San Francisco.
Tested gateways that provide FXO ports
The following gateways have been tested with TeleVantage:
Manufacturer’s product Web site Type Model Ports
Sipura Technology Inc.
http://www.sipura.com/products/index.htm
Analog SPA-3000
1
1 analog trunk
(FXO) port
Quintum Technologies, Inc.
http://www.quintum.com/enterprise/en_prod
ucts.html
Analog See your TeleVantage provider for the
models supported and their specific
capabilities.
1.
The Sipura SPA-3000 was tested with software version 3.1.7 and hardware version 2.0.1.