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X204 Series User Manual
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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?
OpenVox X204 hybrid telephony card is a PCI2.2 compliant card which

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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