The Mediant Family

(2000, 1000, 600)

Mediant 2000

► Digital gateway that incorporates 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 E1, T1, or J1 spans

(16 spans in two separate modules)
► Supports up to 480 simultaneous calls
► Based on TP-1610 board
► Dual AC or single DC power supply
► Provides an optional second cPCI slot that can be used for general
applications
Front Panel

cPCI Latch
FAIL
ACT
Red - Board failure
Green - Gateway initialization
Module 1
sequence terminated OK
1610 Series
Trunks 1-8
1

T1/ E1 Status
2
3
4
5
6 T1/E1 Status
Ethernet LEDs 7
8 (for each of trunks 1 to 8)
(for each module) LINK ACT
Green - All OK

Eth
1
Green - Link is up 2
Red - Alarm due to any of these 4:
Yellow - Transmit & Receive activity LOS - Loss of Signal
LOF - Loss of Frame Alignment
AIS - Alarm Indication Signal
RAI - Remote Alarm Indication

Module 2
9
Trunks 9-16 10
T1/ E1 Status

11 T1/E1 Status
12
13
14 (for each of trunks 9 to 16)
15
16

Green - Power On PWR Swap Ready

SWAP
READY Blue - cPCI Board can be removed.

cPCI Latch
Rear Panel
CPCI Latch
1610 Series
1610 Series
1

2
1

E1/T1 trunks 1-8

3
8
50-pin male Telco
connector wired must
4
RJ-48c TrunkConnector and Pinout be connected here.
T
8/ET-1 Spans 12345678 r

8 RJ-48c Trunk 1 = Rx- 3, 6, 7, 8 u

n
5 k
connectors 2 = Rx+ not connected s

4 = Tx-
9
6 5 = Tx+ body = shield
E1/T1 trunks 9-16
50-pin male Telco
7 16
connector wired must
be connected here.
8

2 Ethernet Ports Ethernet

Status

2 RJ-45 LAN
connectors, 1 E
t 1
2 Ethernet Ports
for 1-port dual
h
e
2 RJ-45
redundancy.
r
n LANconnectors,
2
e
2
t for 1-port dual
cPCI Latch redundancy.
Mediant 1000

► Modular gateway that can host a variety of interfaces

► Mixed analog (FXS / FXO) and digital (PRI / BRI) ports in a single chassis
► Supports up to two Media Process Module (MPM) that are used for media
server functionalities (e.g., conferencing)
► Supports additional Partner Application Platform (processor module) – OSN
► Up to 120 channels
Front Panel-CPU

1 I/O modules 9 RS-232

10 Reset
4 CPU modules
11,12 10/100 Ethernet ports
5,6 Power supply (main, spare) 13 Audio in/Out
14,15 Dry contact for alarm
7 Fans
Q: Why does the Ethernet Interface Redundancy feature doesn’t
operate on the Mediant 1000

► The Ethernet Interface Redundancy feature is disabled by

default on the Mediant 1000. To enable it set the parameter
MIIRedundancyEnable to 1.
Digital PRI Module

► E1/T1/J1 capabilities
► 1, 2, or 4 port configurations
► PSTN Fallback support
► Hot swappable
BRI Module

► 4 ports of S/T interface

► Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multi-Point configuration
► Each port can be NT or TE (Network side or User side)
► 8 VoIP sessions per module
► Up to 5 modules per Mediant 1000 (up to 20 BRI ports)
Analog FXS / FXO Modules

► Modularity: 1-6 modules of 2 or 4 FXS/FXO ports (Up to 24 ports)

► Hot swappable
MPM Module

► Used for IPmedia functionalities (conferencing and for playing

announcements for example)
► Single MPM module - 20 IPmedia channels (slot #6)
► Two MPM modules – 60 IPmedia channels (slot #5)
OSN Server

► Third party application running on the Pentium-Based host application

processor (CPU and HDD)
► CPU – Pentium based
► 80 G Hard Disk
► Platform for complete VoIP applications
Mediant 600

► Compact digital gateway

► Supports the following fixed configurations:
► 1 E1/T1
► 2 E1/T1
► 4 BRI ports (8 calls)
► 8 BRI ports (16 calls)
► Fractional E1/T1 (15 DS0 supported– with an upgrade option to full span)
TP-1610 / TP-260

► The TP-260 is a PCI blade that scales from 1 to 8 E1/T1/J1 spans (up to 240
channels)
► The TP-1610 cPCI blade with similar functionalities as the Mediant 2000
Chapter 9 – Student Notes