Sipura Technology Inc.

Makers of some of the most popular SIP ATAs available:

• Sipura SPA-1000 – This ATA has now been superseded by the Sipura SPA-1001
  • 1 FXS port
• Sipura SPA-1001
  • 1 FXS port
  • 2 SIP lines
• SIPURA SPA-2000 – This ATA has now been superseded by the Sipura SPA-2002 which is almost identical
  • 2 FXS ports
• Sipura 3000 – This ATA is discontinued and has been superseded by the Liksys SPA3102
  • 1 FXS port
  • 1 FXO port
• SPA-841 VoIP phone
  • 2 to 4 line appearances
  • Speakerphone
  • $100 List price (2 Line appearances)
• SPA-941 VoIP phone
  • 2-4 line appearances
  • Speakerphone
  • Wireless networking option
  • Beta version on display at Boston VON Oct 2005
• SPA-2100 Router/ATA
  • Router
  • 2 FXS ports
  • T.38 FAX support
  • QoS support
  • $110 List price

Documentation

While Sipura has excellent documentation for configuration and provisioning of their equipment, this documentation is only available to Service Providers and Resellers.
The Sipura products have literally hundreds of configuration options and can be quite daunting to configure.

The only documentation publicly accessible is the Sipura ATA User guide for firmware v2.0.9. This is a mammoth 87-page document that provides quite a bit of information about the various configuration parameters. But, it only goes as far as v.2.0.9 of the firmware. Many of the newer parameters need to be documented but Sipura does not plan on releasing any new documentation.

The PDF user guide is a good start but an online version with a little more detail would be better. Therefore, you will find more detailed Sipura Documentation based on the Advanced/admin Web pages.

History

Founders of Sipura developed the Cisco ATA-186 long ago.

News

• 2005-04-26 Cisco to Acquire Sipura Technology
• 2005-04-25 MyPhoneCall appointed UK distributors for the full Sipura range.
• 2004-10-15 Sipura announces IP phone and Router/ATA
• 2004-08-20 Linksys partners with Sipura for new combination Router/SIP ATA

See Also

• Linksys Some Linksys products use Sipura firmware. (and now are owners of sipura)
• Linksys (Sipura) VoIP Support Forum – Most active Linksys/Sipura discussion forum.
• Cheapest ATAs and Service Page
• SPA Logging Log debugging information from the Sipura to file & DB.
• SPA Syslog setup to capture logging information from your SPA (not just debugging information like the link above).

Mass Deployment

• • Information on sipura mass deployment of phones

• SipTar CallShop: Linksys / Sipura SPA/PAP / Mediatrix / HTTEL CallShop Solution.

How do I upgrade my Sipura without using the Sipura supplied Windows utility?

First, go to http://www.sipura.com/support/ to find the latest firmware. Download to a local computer and name the file spa.bin

Via TFTP

1. If necessary, install a TFTP server on a PC on the same local subnet as the SPA device (e.g. you may use the free TFTP server software from http://solarwinds.net). Most Linux distributions include a tftp server.
2. Place the firmware upgrade “spa_whatever.bin” file in the tftp root directory of the active TFTP server.
3. Determine the IP address of the powered-up SPA (IVR menu ****#110#).
4. Request the upgrade from a web browser. If the TFTP server is running on the same computer: assuming a.b.c.d is the SPA ip address, http://a.b.c.d/upgrade?/spa.bin. If the tftp server is on a different computer (a.b.c.d is the SPA address, x.y.z.w is the tftp server address), use the following URL: http://a.b.c.d/upgrade?tftp://x.y.z.w/spa.bin
5. The SPA should then get the new firmware from the TFTP server and reboot.

Via HTTP

1. Upload this file to the directory on your web server. (Example http://192.168.0.80/spa.bin )
2. Request the upgrade from a web browser. Assuming a.b.c.d is the SPA IP address then type http://a.b.c.d/upgrade?http://192.168.0.80/spa.bin into your browser.
3. Now you should be redirected to a wait screen and your Sipura phone should be flashing while it upgrades its firmware. Be patient.

VOIP Phones