SPA3102 in Hipath environment

[gregd72002]

Hello,

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, however why not?

At my work place I've got a Siemens Optiset E phone which (I believe) is connected to Hipath system. Recently, I've bought a voice gateway (Cisco SPA3102) that I hopped to connect in place of the above phone. Unfortunately, the default PSTN configuration of SPA3102 does not seem to work with the line at all. The gateway shows correct PSTN line voltage (-47 V), however when trying to dial any number, the gateway gets CPC Signal and disconnects the line. Actually, the voltage goes down to 0 and stays so.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this area? What should I start with?

Thank you very much in advance,
Gregory

 

[obtsystems]

Do you have the spa connected to an analogue line port

 

[gregd72002]

Hi,

I am pretty sure, that the SPA is connected to an analogue line port.

My guess is that the problem I'm facing is some kind of tone (short code) for 'line available' or similar?

Another finding that I've got is that I am not able to call the SPA extension from other phone on the system. The error I got on the other phone (when trying to call line that SPA is connected to) is 'line not in use' or something similar.
Moreover, if I connect Siemens Optiset phone instead of SPA, everything works.

Thank you,
Gregory

 

[gregd72002]

OK, I did some more testing and I am keen to say that the line the my phone (Optiset E) is connected to is an ISDN line. Unless, someone else can enlighten me, I think I am out of luck connecting the SPA to the telephone system.

 

[obtsystems]

You can't connect the spa to a extension port especially a optipoint telephone port it has to be a co port
Do you have the manager e tool

 

[Iamnothere]

The Optiset uses a proprietary BRI connection to the HiPath 4000, supplied by a printed circuit board in the SLMO family. I am not familiar with your "SPA" phone, but it will not work in a "swap" situation with an Optiset. As others have suggested, try your experiment on an analog port, supplied by a pcb in the SLMA family (SLMA, SLMA24, SLMAC, SLMAE, etc).

Good luck!

 

[gregd72002]

In this case, the simplest option is probably to buy an analogue extension to my optiset phone so I can plug the SPA into it.

Thank you for all the info!

 

[obtsystems]

What are you tring to do with the spa unit. Are you trying to run a sip external sip extension or a sip trunk from a other provider. It may be a trunk card you need

 

[gregd72002]

Thanks for all the info. I've bought an analogue adapter to my optiset phone and connected the spa to it. Everything works as expected! Cool!

However, now I am thinking of getting more lines out. One obvious solution seems to buy more analogue adapters and plug them to optiset phones and get them connected to ansterisk via spa. That sounds like a lot of hassle.

What are the other ways of doing it? Is there a direct way of connecting hicom/hipath to asterisk?