Rich Adamson wrote:

On February 18, 2005 12:32 pm, Rich Adamson wrote:

I'm confused. Digium cards do not support E&M trunks, which are older
interfaces that include either a two-wire or four-wire audio "plus"
two additional wires called the "E" and the "M" leads. So, Wink
timing is irrelevant (unless I'm misunderstanding your question).

Uh... my zapata and zaptel.conf exmaple files both show E&M signaling options. I'm no telephony expert but I though that E&M signaling was just buried in the RBS bits like any other CAS T1 signaling.


When I responded to Eric's original post, it sounded like he was trying
to interface to an older pbx trunk interface (physical interface).
Those physical E&M interfaces were as described above (each had either
four or six wires).

What the original post didn't say was the interface to the non-asterisk
pbx was a T1, and one (or more) of the channels were configured for E&M
signaling. Completely different then a physical E&M interface. (Someone
else had asked about a physical interface not more then a couple of
weeks ago, so the mind was oriented along those lines.)

The original setup was:

CLEC CT1 -> Channel Bank -> (analog) -> Nortel PBX.

Current setup is:

CLEC CT1 -> Astrisk -> CT1 -> Channel Bank (analog) -> Nortel PBX.

The Nortel does not have T-1 interfaces in it and the company is unwilling to buy a T-1 card for the Nortel.

Only 4 channels of the T-1 are E&M Wink (they are for DIDs), the rest of the channels are various other things. For the voice channels that we care about we terminate the channels into Asterisk. For channels we don't care about we use the Zappel DACS stuff to just patch the channels thru.

Channels 9 - 12 are the E&M Wink channels.  This is what we see:

Failure #1:

-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/9-1'
Feb 18 16:13:25 WARNING[1965]: chan_zap.c:4723 ss_thread: getdtmf on channel 9: Operation now in progress
-- Hungup 'Zap/9-1'
-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/10-1'
Feb 18 16:13:29 WARNING[1966]: chan_zap.c:4723 ss_thread: getdtmf on channel 10: Operation now in progress
-- Hungup 'Zap/10-1'


Failure #2
-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/9-1'
Feb 18 16:13:25 WARNING[1965]: chan_zap.c:4723 ss_thread: getdtmf on channel 9: Operation now in progress
-- Hungup 'Zap/9-1'
-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/10-1'
-- Executing NoOp("Zap/10-1", "EXTEN=189") in new stack
-- Executing Dial("Zap/10-1", "Zap/G3/189||g") in new stack
-- Called G3/189


In Failure #2 the calls still go thru, as you can see.

As you can see when a call suceeds I do not see the getdtmf WARNING message.

We have no problems sending calls to the channel bank, only getting them from the CLEC. Since the CLEC used to be directly connected to the channel bank and then to the Nortel I want to get the wink timings for the nortel to see if making Asterisk match the Nortel settings make any difference.

--Eric
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