The Falcon Media Gateway enables enterprises to deploy both voice and data over IP networks. The gateway can be configured for both ISDN-PRI and CAS protocols to provide an interface between PSTN and PBX circuit switched networks and packet switched networks using SIP protocols. A SS7/ISUP option is also available. All major T1 and E1 Central Office and PBX signaling protocols are supported for World-wide deployment.

SIP

The gateway supports RFC2543 in addition to the REFER/NOTIFY and INVITE/Replaces call transfer methods. The SIP protocol implementation is script-based to allow quick adaptation to the still-changing SIP protocol specification.

Remote Management

The gateway may be managed from any Windows or Unix system. SNMP support is provided for the transcoder, trunk, and operating system components.

A telnet interface provides management and configuration capabilities of the gateway. Features include:

Trunk management

• Place circuits in-service

• Place circuits out-of-service

• Place circuits in maintenance mode

• Assign trunk group members

• Display trunk status (idle, busy, maintenance-mode)

• Display trunk group statistics

• Remove span (T1/E1) from service

• Put span in service

• Dynamically Enable/disable PSTN protocol tracing at span level.

• Display span statistics and error counters.
  

SIP management and configuration

• Configure SIP proxy registration

• Enable/Disable proxy registration

• Display proxy registration status

• Enable/disable SIP message logging
  

Call routing

• Inbound number translation and routing

• SIP To:/From:/Request-URI header contents supplied from number translation configuration tables.

• Outbound trunk group selection from To:/From header translation configuration tables.

• Configurable trunk specific dialing plans.

• Direct SIP end-point routing for specific DNIS or ANI numbers.
  

Alarms for service impacting errors are logged to an alarm stream

• T1/E1 carrier group alarms (RED, Yellow, Blue, etc.)

• All trunks busy alarm (configurable thresholds for set and reset for each trunk group)

• Transcoder hardware errors

• Support for multiple alarm streams
  

Call Record Logging

• Full Call Detail Record (CDR) logging.
  

Diagnostics

• Complete logging of transcoder functions and events, PSTN functions and signaling events, SIP messages, and call routing may be selectively enabled and disabled dynamically.
  

Specifications

Specifications for Transcoder and Telephony Hardware

The Falcon Gateway uses the AudioCodes TP240 PCI hardware and TP610 cPCI hardware. The full specifications are available in PDF form:

          TP240 PCI
          TP610 cPCI

SIP Media Gateway Developers Kit

The Falcon SIP Media Gateway software is available in source form for a quick start on development of a custom gateway.

Contact Information

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