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Contents
General Safety Instructions
Test Environments
Chapter 1 Overview
1.1 What is Asterisk
1.2 What is A800E
Chapter 2 Hardware Setup
2.1 Power supply
2.2 Slot compatibility
2.3 Timing cable
2.4 FXO and FXS modules
2.5 Hardware setup procedure
Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration
3.1 Download
3.2 Installation
3.3 Configuration
Chapter 4 Reference
Appendix A Specifications
Appendix B PIN Assignments
General Safety Instructions
CAUTION
- The computers that have A800E card installed must comply with the country's specific safety regulations.
- Only service personnel should go to install A800E card.
- Before installing A800E card, please unplug the power cord and remove the cover from your PC.
- For avoiding personal injuries and damages to your machine and A800E card, make sure bracket of the card is secured to the PC's chassis ground by fastening the card with a screw.
- 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.
- To reduce the risk of damage or injury, please follow all steps or procedures as instructed.
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Chapter 1 A800E Overview
1.1 What is Asterisk
The Definition of Asterisk 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 IP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standard-based telephony equipment using relatively cost-effective hardware. Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response, Call Queuing. It supports for 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).
Figure 1 Topology
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