Technical Specifications

• From 2 to 24 ports are supported. Mix TE and NT modes, as required. Changing modes requires no jumpers — simply invert the colour-coded module.
• Support for Asterisk^®, FreeSwitch^™, and Yate as well as other Open Source and proprietary PBX, Switch, IVR, and VoIP gateway applications.
• Single synchronous PCI and PCI Express interface for all 24 BRI interfaces.
• Six ports per Remora^™ card.
• Dimensions: 2U Form factor: 187 mm x 55 mm for use in restricted chassis.
• Short 2U compatible mounting clips included for installation in 2U rackmount servers and high quality, tested 2 m 8-pin RJ45 port splitter cables included.
• 32 bit bus master DMA data exchanges across PCI interface at 132 Mbytes/sec for minimum host processor intervention.
• Autosense compatibility with 5 V and 3.3 V PCI busses.
• Fully PCI 2.2 and PCI Express compliant, compatible with all commercially available motherboards, proper sharing of PCI interrupts.
• Intelligent hardware: Downloadable FPGA programming with multiple operating modes. Add new features related to voice and/or data when they become available.
• Power: 800 mA peak, operational 300 mA max at +3.3 V or 5 V.
• Temperature range: 0 – 50 °C.
• Optimized DMA stream and hardware-level HDLC handling unload the host CPU.
• Raw bitstream interfaces can be used to support arbitrary non-standard line protocols, such as non-byte aligned monosynch or bisynch.
• WANPIPE^® supports certified, field tested and reliable Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC and X.25.

Operating Systems

• Linux (all versions, releases and distributions from 1.0 up).

Warranty

• Lifetime warranty on parts and labour. Plus a 30-day no questions asked return policy.

Certification

• FCC Part 15 Class A, FCC Part 68, CE, TBR3.

Diagnostic Tools

• WANPIPEMON, SNMP, System logs.

Production Quality

• ISO 9002

Architecture

The A500 consists of a Remora^™ BRI daughterboard mounted on the AFT PCI card. The Remora^™ BRI card has three sockets, each of which can accept an S/T BRI module.

One S/T BRI module has two S/T four wire interfaces, which support TE or NT modes of operation. Changing modes requires no jumpers — simply invert the module.

Up to three additional Remora^™ daughterboardscan be mounted in empty slot positions beside the A500 assembly. These are connected to the A500 by a special backplane bus connector.