Product Description

The Sangoma A101 is the industry leading single port T1/E1 telephony card. The A101 is designed to work with voice over IP communications IP PBX platforms such as trixbox, asterisk, CentPBX as well as other open source and proprietary PBX/Switch/IVR/VoIP gateway applications.

The A101 supports up to 30 channels/voice calls over a single T1, E1, or J1 line. It is a part of Sangoma's family of Advanced Flexible Telecommunications hardware product line - it uses the same high-performance PCI interface that is providing superior performance in critical systems all over the world.

Operational Modes

• Data only:
  • T1/E1 and fractional T1/E1, single channel HDLC per line.
• Voice mode:
  • Supports Robbed Bit Channel Associated Signaling (CAS) and ISDN PRI.
  • Block mode raw bit-stream interface for integration with the Asterisk Open Source PBX/IVR platform.
  • Channelized mode supporting individual DMA into voice timeslots plus onboard HDLC support of PRI channel for soft PBX implementations that can use these features.
• Mixed Voice/Data Mode:
  • Combination of router/PBX functions in one server - Asterisk as an option.
  • Both 8 bit (64kbps per channel) and 7 bit (56kbps per channel) board-level HDLC support.
  • WAN data connection is supported by Sangoma’s standard WANPIPE® routing stack providing certified Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC and

With Sangoma cards, you can always take advantage of hardware and software improvements, as soon as they become available. The A101, like all cards in Sangoma's AFT family, is field upgradeable with crash-proof firmware.

Technical Specifications

• Available as Single T1/E1 port (A101) or Dual T1/E1 port (A102) with daughterboard.
  
• Intelligent hardware: Downloadable Field Programmable Gate Array programming with multiple operating modes.
  
• T1/E1 and fractional T1/E1, single channel HDLC per line
  
• Power: 520mA at +5v
  
• PCI 32 bit (5v and 64 bit (3.3v) compatible.
  
• Temperature range: 0 - 45C.
  
• All set-up and configuration is in software or by machine BIOS.
  
• DSU/CSU set up entirely in software.
  
• Line decoding: HDB3, AMI, B8ZS. 
  
• Framing: CRC4, non-CRC4, ESF, D4T1/E1. 
  
• Clocking mode: Normal , Master.
• Software controlled DSU/CSU test modes.
  
• Remote monitoring of card and CSU/DSU operation.

Dimensions

2U Form factor: 120mm x 55 mm.



Operating systems

Linux (all versions, releases and distributions from 1.0 up), FreeBSD, Open BSD (X.25, BSC and SS7 NOT available on BSD)



Higher level protocols

Asterisk Open PBX/IVR, IP/IPX over Frame Relay/ PPP/ HDLC/ X.25, X.25 over Frame Relay (Annex G), BSC over X.25 (DMT and TCOP), SNA over X.25, PPPoE, PPPoA, IP over ATM.



Warranty

Lifetime warranty on parts and labour.



Certifications

FCC Part 68
FCC Part 15 Class A
CISPR 22
CISPR 24
Safety: 6095-1 (worldwide)
Australian AFIC-S016-2001



Production quality

ISO 9002