FlexxGate Features

• Web-based GUI configuration and management tool
• Create and manage lines and trunks (both VoIP and PSTN)
• "Clustered" or stand-alone mode allows multiple gateway management and reporting
• VoIP flexibility for MACs (moves, adds, changes)
• Web-based access to CDRs (call detail records)
• 96 ports (T1) or 120 ports (E1/J1) and 250 concurrent SIP sessions simultaneously in a single 1U server
• TDM call transfers
  
  • Hook flash
  • ISDN (Avaya Q,SIG ANF-PR Path Replacement)
  • Network "Take back and transfer"
• DNIS and ANI transparency and logic capability
• Onboard, hardware-based 3^rd Generation Echo cancellation
• Call Progress / Answering Machine Detection
• High-availability option (requires additional hardware and software configuration)
• Appliance
  • Pre-configured for your environment
  • Runs on standard server hardware (included)
  • Red Hat Linux Operating System (included)
  • Easy to operate, maintain, and expand

  • 24x7x365 support from PSS

Typical Deployment Environment

Most next-generation IVR platforms now support only SIP as their telephony interface, relying on a gateway to provide connectivity to traditional circuit-switched enviroments.

FlexxGate Specifications

VoIP  Interoperability:

• RTP/RTSP
• H.323
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol, RFC 3261)
• MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol)
• Megaco
• Limited Skinny (Cisco Proprietary) support
  • Call presentation
  • Call answer
  • Call disconnect
  • Call info (no MWI)

VoIP Codec Support:

• GSM
• G.729 (requires an additional inexpensive per-port licensing cost)
• G.723.1 (pass through)
• Linear
• u-Law (G.721)
• A-Law (G.721)
• ADPCM
• G.726
• ILBC
• LPC-10
• Speex

VoIP Standards Support:

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP, RFC 3261)
• RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals (RFC 2833)
• SIP INFO (RFC 2976)
• SIP REFER (RFC 3515)
• Session Timers in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Basic Network Media Services with SIP
• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Mapping (RFC 3398)
• H.323, ITU-T H.323 Recommendation (07/03), Packet-based Multimedia Communications Systems.
• Session Description Protocol (SDP, RFC 2327)
• RFC 3264 SDP negotiation
• Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP, RFC 1889)
• RFC 3310 SIP Authentication
• RFC 1890 RTP Audio
• MMUSIC RTSP Draft

Digital Circuit-Switched Protocols

T1/E1/J1 robbed-bit (CAS) and ISDN (CCS)

E&M

• Immediate start
• Wink start
• T1/Robbed-bit
• E1/CAS (Channel Associated Signaling)
• Feature Group

PRI /CCS

• 4ESS (AT&T/Lucent)
• 5ESS (Lucent)
• DMS 100 (Nortel)
• National ISDN2
• EuroISDN
• “Old” NISDN 1
• Q.SIG

Analog Circuit-Switched Protocols

• FXS and FXO Analog
• Loop start
• Ground start
• Kewl/Quick Start (loop start with disconnect detect)

FlexxGate Hardware Specifications 

• 1RU standard server (we normally ship on HP DL-series servers)
• Dual/Redundant Power Supplies
• Dual/Redundant NICs
• Dual CPU with CPU-segmented RAM
• Minimum Dual Xeon 2 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 36GB Hard Drive
• RAID 1 / Mirrored (default) - Raid 5 capable