Configuration

You can configure the Excel platform and SIP using either the SwitchKit Converged Services Administrator (CSA) GUI or the EXS API. The EXS API messages related to SIP are included in this document. For information on CSA, see the Converged Services Administrator User’s Guide.

1. Activate SIP Software with product license keys For details, refer to Downloading License Keys in the Licensing Overview chapter in the Developer’s Guide: Overview and the Product License Download message (0x0079) in the API Reference.

4. Configure Answer Supervision for Notify Host of Answer using the PPL Configure (0x00D7) message.

The following configuration options are supported for SIP using TLVs in the VoIP Protocol Configure (0x00EE) message.

The following is a sample configuration file to configure SIP on the Excel platform:

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Session-Initiation Protocol. A signaling protocol used for establishing sessions in an IP network. A session could be a simple, two-way telephone call, or it could be a collaborative multi-media conference session.

CSA. GUI-based tool used to configure, provision and monitor a Excel platform related to, for example, SIP, H.323, and VDAC Resouce Attributes.

See Converged Services Administrator.

Internet Protocol. Part of the TCP/IP family of protocols used to route messages and tracks the addresses of nodes.

Range of channels provided by T1 or E1 transmission service. A physical span is a group of channels taking up a single physical wire. A logical span is a group of channels taking up less than a single logical wire, or carried over more than one physical wire.

A computer, attached to the Excel platform through an RS-232 or Ethernet link, from which you run the telecommunications application that controls the Excel platform.

See Programmable Protocol Language.

Voice over Internet Protocol. The delivery of voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than in the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public-switched telephone network (PSTN).

Tag-Length-Value block. A standardized block that allows data to inserted in a standard way into API messages.

A device that translates calls between an IP network and another network, typically the PSTN.

The point in the Excel platform where a DS0 connects to a network. Also known as a "socket."

Digital communications link - voice, data, and video at a 1.544 Mbps rate (24 64 Kbps channels)

TLV Tag and Name	Default
0x01D0 Gateway Mode (In Resource Attribute Configure message)	Normal Mode (Non-Gateway Mode) (0x02)
0x01C8 Protocol Type	SIP (0x04)
0x0262 Use SIP Local Port	5060 (0x13C4)
0x0263 Use SIP Remote Port/Default Proxy Port	5060 (0x13C4)
0x0264 Use SIP Remote Host/Default Proxy Host	No default
0x0265 Use SIP Site ID	EXCEL-CSP
0x0266 Use SIP Anonymous Caller	0000
0x0267 Use SIP Invite T1 Timer	500 ms (0x1F4)
0x0268 Use SIP BYE T1 Timer	500 ms (0x1F4)
0x0269 Use SIP T2 Timer	4000 ms (0x190)
0x026A Use SIP Maximum Retransmissions Invite	7 (0x07)
0x026B Use SIP Max Retransmissions BYE	11 (0x0B)
0x0270 SIP Tunnel Type	Disabled
0x0272 Use SIP Registration Timeout	3600 s (0xE10)
0x0274 Use No Local Media	Terminate media locally (0x01)
0x0275 Local Registration Enable/Disable	Enabled
0x0279 SIP Local Route Lookup	Disabled (0x00)
0x027A SIP Registration Mode	Do not notify host (0x00)
0x027C Min-SE Interval	300 s (0x12C)