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Table of contents
Table of contents ..............................................................................4
General Safety Instructions .............................................................5
Test Environment..............................................................................6
Chapter 1 Overview .........................................................................7
What is Asterisk ......................................................................................................... 8
Asterisk as a Phone Switch (PBX) ................................................................................ 9
Asterisk as a Gateway................................................................................................. 9
What is X204 Series Hybrid telephony card?.................................................................. 9
Target applications .................................................................................................... 10
Main features ........................................................................................................... 11
Card identification .................................................................................................... 13
Chapter 2 Hardware Setup ............................................................14
Slot compatibility ..................................................................................................... 14
Hardware Installation ................................................................................................ 14
Connecting a Timing Cable ........................................................................................ 16
FXO/FXS, BRI and E1 Connection............................................................................. 16
Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration ....................17
Software Installation ................................................................................................. 17
Download................................................................................................................ 17
Driver Configuration................................................................................................. 22
Asterisk initiation ..................................................................................................... 28
Chapter 5 FXO, FXS, BRI and E1 Explained...................................29
Appendix A Specifications .............................................................34
Appendix B PIN Assignments ........................................................35

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General Safety Instructions
CAUTION
1. The computers that have X204 card installed must comply with the
country’s specific safety regulations.
2. Only service personnel should install X204 card.
3. Before you install X204 card, please unplug the power cord from the
computer and remove the cover from your PC.
4. For avoiding personal injuries and damage to your computer and
X204 card, make sure bracket of the card is secured to the PC’s
chassis ground by fastening the card with screws.
5. Electrical Surges, ESD are very destructive to the equipment. To avoid
it, make sure there is a low impedance discharge path from your
computer to chassis ground.
6. To reduce the risk of damage or injury, please follow all steps or
procedures as instructed.

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Test Environment
Hardware Board: OpenVox X204
Operating System: CentOS-6.3
Kernel Version: 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
DAHDI：dahdi-linux-complete-2.11.1+2.11.1
Asterisk：1.8.22.0
Libpri：1.4.14

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Chapter 1 Overview
The X204 series cards are versatile devices used for connectingyour phone
network to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) world. This is
accomplished through analog connected to the FXO (Foreign Exchange
Office) port, phone handset connected to the FXS (Foreign Exchange
Station) ports, digital lines connected to the BRI (Basic rate ISDN) ports,
and E1(Basic Rate ISDN PRI) ports. The X204 series cards allow Asterisk
to connect to your phone network, creating an office type telephony
environment.
Figure 1 Topology

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Figure2 Sample Card Application for FXO/FXS/BRI/E1
What is Asterisk
The Definition ofAsterisk is described as follows:
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows
(emulated) and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX
and more. Asterisk does voice over IPin four protocols,and can
interoperate with almost all standard-basedtelephony equipments using
relatively cost-effective hardware. Asterisk provides Voicemail services
with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response,and Call
Queuing. It supports three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, IAX,
SIP,H323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager only) and
SCCP/Skinny (voip-info.org).

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Asteriskas a Phone Switch(PBX)
Asterisk can be configured as the core of an IP or hybrid PBX, switching
calls, managing routes, enabling features, and connecting callers with the
outside world over IP, analog (POST), and digital (T1/E1/J1/BRI)
connections.
Asterisk runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux,
Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and Sun Solaris. It provides all of the features you
would expect from a PBX including many advanced features that are
often associated with high end (and high cost)proprietary PBXs.
Asterisk’s architecture is designed for maximum flexibility and supports
Voice over IPin many protocols,and can interoperate with almost all
standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive
hardware.
Asteriskas a Gateway
It can also be built out as the heart of a media gateway, bridging the
legacy PSTN to the expanding world of IP telephony. Asterisk’s modular
architecture allows it to convert between a wide range of communications
protocols and media codecs.
What is X204 Series Hybrid telephony card?
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supports 3 types interface: FXO/FXS, BRI and T1/E1/ J1. X204 Series
card allows users to choosethe number of FXO/FXS module accordingto
individual needs. With no additional separate channel combiner and
gateway access to products, each interface access 2 analog line via
junction box. BRI ports can be configured for TEor NT mode
individually by jumpers. It can provide 4 simultaneous voice calls over 2
ISDN BRI lines, turns your legacy ISDN BRI equipment into powerful
Voice over IPdevices and provides a softmigration pathfrom ISDN
technology to the new Voice over IP world. T1/E1/ J1 interface is
selectable on a per-card or per-port basis,and supports industry standard
telephony and data protocols, including Primary Rate ISDN (both
American and Standard Euro) protocolfamilies for voice, PPP,Cisco,
HDLC, and Frame Relay data modes.Both line-side and trunk-side
interfaces are supported.
X204 Series Card works perfectly with open sourceAsterisk® and
enables users to take full advantages of the high performance and rich
features ofAsterisk®.
Targetapplications
Channel Bank Replacement / Alternative
Small Office Home Office (SOHO) applications
Small and Medium Business (SMB) applications

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Gateway Termination to analog telephones/lines
High Performance ISDN interface Cards
ISDN PABX for BRI
ISDN LAN Routers for BRI
ISDN Least CostRouters for BRI
ISDN TestEquipment for BRI
Voice-over Internet Protocol(VoIP) Services
Complex IVR Trees
"Meet-Me" Bridge Conferencing
Calling Card Platforms
VoIPGateways (supportSIPAnd IAX2)
Legacy PBX/IVR Services
Voice/Data Router (replace expensive routers)
PRI/SS7/R2 Compatibility-Network or CPE
Mainfeatures
BRIFeatures:
Up to 4 Simultaneous Voice Calls Over 2 ISDN BRI Lines Per PCIe
Slot)
Mix TE and NT Modes as Required
TE/CPE mode: BRI or PRI module can be used as transceiver
synchronous clock, and the clock sourceline does not require link to
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T1/E1/J1 Features:
Industry 1st adjustable interrupt routing design
Interrupts frequency adjustment
Compatible with All Commercially Available Motherboards
OneT1/E1/J1 portwith PCI interface forhigh performance voice and
data applications
FXO/FXS Features:
Caller ID and Call Waiting
ADSI Telephones
LoopstartSignaling Support
Adjustable Interrupt Routing Design
Interrupts Frequency Adjustment
Up to 2 simultaneous PSTNCalls (Per FXO200M module)
Compatible with All Commercially Available Motherboards
Supports PCIExpress 1.0 or above
4 RJ-45 interfaces ona single PCI bracket
RoHS compliant
Certificates:
CE, FCC,A-Tick
Trixbox TM Officially Certified
Elastix® Officially Certified

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Cardidentification
There are multiple configurations in which an X204 series card may be
purchased. Each configuration consists of a combination of single modules,
quad modules, or according to your need in any combination.

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Chapter 2 Hardware Setup
There are some points should be paid attention to when setting up X204
series card.
Slot compatibility
Check the slots on your motherboard to verify that you have a slot
available which is compatible with the X204 series card.To determine
which slots you have on your motherboard, identify them by comparing
them to those shown in the following figure.
64-bit 5.0V PCI slot
64-bit 3.3V PCI slot
32-bit 5.0V PCI slot
PCI-E ×1 slot
32-bit 3.3V PCI slot
1
2
3
4
5
Figure3 PCI-E and PCI slots
HardwareInstallation
1. Now that you are acquainted with your card, power down your
computer.
2. Attach an anti-static strap to your wrist and open the case.

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3. Remove the bracket place holder and insert the card into a PCI or PCI
Express slot. See the following figure3.
Figure4 Insert the card
4. Replace the cover to your computer.
5. Plug all analog telephone lines to the FXO ports (correspondingto the
red modules) and all analog phones to the FXS ports (green modules)
as needed using a patch panel, punch block, or the provided BRI
RJ11-to-RJ45 cables.
6.
Caution: This unit must beconnected to the
Telecommunications. Network in your country using an
approved cord, e.g. :for Australia use only line cords
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Caution: only connect regulatory equipment(approved
for use in your specific country) to the telecommunications
network voltage circuit port.
Connecting a Timing Cable
The timing port allows up to three X204 series card to share the same
sync (timing) sourcefrom the BRI line provider, orprovide a consistent
sync sourceacross multiple cards.This is a useful feature foe fax modes
and some voice applications to prevent corruption due to timing slips on
the second and third X204 series cards.
FXO/FXS,BRIand E1Connection
The X204 series cards provide two RJ11 connectors for access to the
FXO/ FXS and BRI modules installed in the available. Using a standard
RJ45 telephone cable extend to two of the RJ11 connectors associated
with an FXO/FXS module on the X204 series card. Using a standard
RJ45 cable extend to two of the RJ45 connectorsassociated with a BRI
module on the X204 series card. There is no extension with E1 on the
X204 series card.

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Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration
SoftwareInstallation
DAHDI software packages are available on OpenVox official website or
Digium. Some patches should be applied when the driver sourceis from
Digium. Therefore, it is recommended that downloading the DAHDI
driver package from OpenVox official website.
Download
Gain DAHDI sourcepackage from OpenVox:
http://downloads.openvox.cn/pub/drivers/dahdi-linux-complete/openvox_dahdi-linux-complete-
2.11.1+2.11.1.tar.gz
Get Libpri and Asterisk software packages from Digium official website:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/libpri-1.4.14.tar.gz
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/old-
releases/asterisk-1.8.22.0.tar.gz
Execute the following commands under the directory of/usr/src/ in
generally to download and decompress these packages:
#_wget_http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephon
y/libpri/releases/libpri-1.4.14.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf libpri-1.4.14.tar.gz
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hdi-linux-complete/openvox_dahdi-linux-complete-
current.tar.gz
#_tar_-xvzf_openvox_dahdi-linux-complete-
current.tar.gz
#_wget_http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephon
y/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.8.22.0.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf asterisk-1.8.22.0.tar.gz
Installation
Hardware detection
# lspci –vvvv
Check the outcome and confirm your system has recognized X204. If it
has been recognized, "Network controller" will be displayed in the output
information like that:
Unassigned class [ff00]: Device 1b74:c200 (rev 01)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-
VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at fdef8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=32K]
Kernel driver in use: x200
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If X204 is not recognized by the system, you have to power off and take
out the card to insert it into another PCIslot.
Softwareinstallation
Some dependencies are crucial. If any of them is absent, the software
installation process would not go through successfully. Let’s run "yum
install XX"(XX stands for the dependency’s name) to check the
availability of dependencies.
# yum install bison
# yum install bison-devel
# yum install ncurses
# yum install ncurses-devel
# yum install zlib
# yum install zlib-devel
# yum install openssl
# yum install openssl-devel
# yum install gnutls-devel
# yum install gcc
# yum install gcc-c++
# yum install libxml2
# yum install libxml2-devel
# yum install libxml2-devel

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If there is no kernel-devel sourcein the system, users
should run the following command to install the kernel-
devel to peer current kernel:
# yum install kernel-devel-`uname –r`
While if there is no matched kernel-devel found, you should download
matched RPMpackage to install it, or execute the following command to
update to the latest and stable kernel version:
# yum install kernel kernel-devel
After installed, please rebootyour machine to apply the new kernel and
install the dependencies. If the dependency has been installed, system
indicates that nothing to do which means you could go to next one
directly. Otherwise, the system will keep oninstalling it.
Change to the directory dahdi-linux-complete-XX (XX represents
DAHDI version), then perform commands one by one to install DAHDI.
# cd /usr/src/dahdi-linux-complete-2.11.1+2.11.1
# make
# make install
# make config