Configuration

Overview

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.

Basic Configuration Steps

The following are the basic steps to configure SIP software.

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.

2. Assign IP Network Interface card IP Addresses.

3. Assign Logical Span IDs for IP Network Interface.

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

5. Bring the spans in service.

6. Bring the channels in service.

7. Configure optional IP Network Interface attributes.

8. Configure Routing.

9. Configure SIP attributes.

 

SIP Attributes

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

Table 4-1 SIP Attribute

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)

Sample Configuration File

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

 

Product licence for SIP

 

00 19 00 79 00 00 ff 01 02 24 10 46 46 42 35 4b 4a 47 58 59 42 41 4c 4c 32 30 4b

'Deassign all spans

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 ff ff ff ff

 

 

 

Deassign IP IP address for the VDAC

00 45 00 e7 00 00 ff 00 01 01 01 0c 00 06 01 09 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 09 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 09 01 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 09 02 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 09 03 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 02 00

 

00 45 00 e7 00 00 ff 00 01 01 01 0c 00 06 01 09 ff 87 77 2C 38 ff ff ff e0 01 09 00 87 77 2C 39 ff ff ff e0 01 09 01 87 77 2C 3a ff ff ff e0 01 09 02 87 77 2C 3b ff ff ff e0 01 09 03 87 77 2C 3c ff ff ff e0 02 00

 

'Assign spans to VDAC Card

 

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 00 a8 0c 00

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 00 a9 0c 01

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 00 aa 0c 02

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 00 ab 0c 03

00 0d 00 a8 00 00 ff 00 01 11 04 00 ac 0c 04

 

Configure Answer Supervision: Propagate answer and Notify host

00 17 00 bb 00 00 ff 01 02 0d 03 00 a8 00 0d 03 00 a8 1f 00 61 01 01 02 02

 

00 17 00 bb 00 00 ff 01 02 0d 03 00 a9 00 0d 03 00 a9 1f 00 61 01 01 02 02

00 17 00 bb 00 00 ff 01 02 0d 03 00 aa 00 0d 03 00 aa 1f 00 61 01 01 02 02

00 17 00 bb 00 00 ff 01 02 0d 03 00 ab 00 0d 03 00 ab 1f 00 61 01 01 02 02

00 17 00 bb 00 00 ff 01 02 0d 03 00 ac 00 0d 03 00 ac 1f 00 61 01 01 02 02

 

VoIP Configure

00 0f 00 ee 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 01 01 c8 00 01 04