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Asterisk Nortel Line Side T1

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The line side T1 card is a station card. It emulates a 500TN in the Meridian 1 (an analog station port). As far as the M1 is concerned, all the channels off this card are analog telephones. This being so, you need to program signaling in Asterisk to treat this as a Central Office. Due to the strange way Asterisk signaling is configured, you will therefore have to program the Asterisk end of things to use FXS signaling.

NT5D14 Jumpers.

Switch 1
1 Serial Port Speed On = 1200 bps Off = 2400 bps
2 Signalling On = Groundstart Off = Loopstart
3-6 XPEC Card Address See XPEC Table
7 Ununsed Off
8 SL-100 Use Only Off
Switch 2
1 Framing On = D4 Off = ESF
2 Coding On = AMI Off = B8ZS
3-5 Line Build-Out See LBO Table
6 Line State on T1 Fail On = Onhook Off = Offhook
7 Daisy-Chain Serial Link On = Yes Off = No
8 Serial Link Master or Slave On = Master Off = Slave *Only if Daisy Chained
XPEC Card Address
Address 3 4 5 6
00 Off Off Off Off
01 Off Off Off On
02 Off Off On Off
03 Off Off On On
04 Off On Off Off
05 Off On Off On
06 Off On On Off
07 Off On On On
08 On Off Off Off
09 On Off Off On
10 On Off On Off
11 On Off On On
12 On On Off Off
13 On On Off On
14 On On On Off
15 On On On On
LBO Distance In Feet to CPE or CSU
Distance 3 4 5
0-133 On Off Off
134-266 Off On On
267-399 Off On Off
400-533 Off Off On
534-655 Off Off Off

So, now that you have this card in your switch, what can you do with it?

Each of the 24 T1 channels on this card can be programmed as a 500(analog) set. They can be added to ACD queues to enable IVR, or remote agent funtionality. You can run comedian mail with unlimited storage instead of mermail with its crippled storage.


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