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SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 44 • FXO port configuration

Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of POTS signaling and SmartNode FXO ports and describes the tasks

involved in conﬁguring FXO ports in SmartWare.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Shutdown and enable FXO ports (see page 538)

• Bind FXO ports to higher layer protocols (see page 539)

• Conﬁgure country speciﬁc FXO port parameters (see page 539)

• Conﬁgure other FXO port parameters (see page 539)

FXO stands for foreign exchange ofﬁce and is the subscriber side of a POTS (plain old telephone system) line.

An FXO port on the SmartNode simulates thus an analog phone set, which must actively go on-hook and off-

hook, detect ringing and caller-id, and dial the called-party number using DTMF keypad.

Shutdown and enable FXO ports

FXO ports are enabled by default. They also can be conﬁgured when they are active. But keep in mind that

conﬁguration of an active port temporarily disables the port for a short time (some milliseconds).

Mode: Conﬁgure

Bind FXO ports to higher layer applications

An FXO port needs to be associated to an fxo interface in a CS context. The same mechanism of encapsulation

and binding is used as known for e.g. ethernet ports (see section “Interfaces, Ports, and Bindings” on page 47).

Procedure: To bind an FXO port to an fxo interface of a CS context

Mode: Port FXO

Step Command Purpose

1 (conﬁg)#port fxo slot port Enter FXO port conﬁguration mode

2 (prt-fxo)[slot/port]#shut-

down

Shutdown the port. All active calls are dropped!

3 (prt-fxo) [slot/port]#no shut-

down

Activate the port.

Step Command Purpose

1 node(conﬁg)#port fxo slot port Enter conﬁguration mode for FXO port

2 node(prt-fxo)[slot/port]#encap-

sulation cc-fxo

Sets the encapsulation for the port. cc-fxo designs

the encapsulation is a context CS interface

3 node(prt-fxo)[slot/port]#bind

interface interface

Binds the port to an interface in a CS context