Topex Voibridge Manual

VoiBridge Lite
VoIP-GSM Gateway
User Manual
2012
VoiBridge Lite Dear Client!
Dear Client!
Thank you for purchasing the ROHDE & SCHWARZ TOPEX S.A. product and congratulation for your
wise choice.
Our VoiBridge Lite equipment has the following features:

SIM cards from up to 4 different Mobile Operators
Least Cost Routing
Intuitive web based GUI
Fast return of investment
Dynamic Call Routing & Mobility Extension features
GSM / UMTS support
SIP and H.323 protocols supported
SIP Registrar - up to 10 SIP subscribers
Advanced call-routing of incoming & outgoing calls
Advanced security with integrated firewall
Access Control List
SIM usage (load balancing),
Works with any IP-PBX or Softswitch based on SIPor H323 protocols
Mobility Extension Featureallows for mobile phones act as PBX interior lines
NAT Traversal capabilities
DISA with customer predefined voice navigation messages
Firewall using IP tables (Linux)
Real Time Clock
Flash memory (keeping SMS when power is off)
Advanced SMS capabilities
Advanced Callback functions by ring or SMS
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
Integrated LAN and WAN ports - possibility to use public and private IP addresses
SNMP integration allows for remote configuration via SNMP protocol
Billing - CDR generation with time stamp from RTC
Configurable alarms by e-mail, SMS or phone call in case of low ASR or hardware failures
AT commands support
SMB and Enterprise solution for interconnecting IP based telephony with cellular networks
Call Center solution for incoming/outgoing calls from/to GSM/UMTS networks
Mobile operators offering their services to Business Customers with IP infrastructure
Telesales centers calling cellular networks
Gateway between cellular networks and VoIP network
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VoiBridge Lite Conformity!
Conformity!

VoiBridge Lite Conformity!
WEEE Directive Compliance
This symbol applied on your product or on its packaging means that

this product fulfils the WEEE Directive. The product shall not be recycled as
household waste; it will be disposed separately as sorted waste.
Regarding to WEEE Directive the recycling EE equipments must be
accomplish separately in purpose of preserving natural resources and to
avoid the occurring negative effects about human health and environment.
The acquired product shall not be treated like household waste and will be
given to a specialized company.
! Please do not dispose your ROHDE & SCHWARZ TOPEX product
as unsorted waste (household waste), recycle it to protect the environment.
Separate the packages according to waste disposal options and sort it for
recycling.
WEEE Directive
For supplementary information contact us to:
Phone: +4021 408 39 00 or www.topex.rohde&schwarz.com
2006/66/CE Directive Compliance

This symbol applied on your product or on its packaging means that
product includes a battery (CR2032 Lithium type) which is subject to
apart collecting from household and WEEE waste.
The battery will not be recycled as household or WEEE waste; it will be
disposed separately in purpose to protect the human health and
environment and preservation of natural resources.
For this at the end of product life remove the battery from the product
performing the operations described bellow:
1. The battery is 5. Deliver over the

comprised by processor 3. Take off the battery 4. Push the battery till battery or collect it
card. For removal open from its holder using a this leaves the socket. with similar waste
the product case or tweezers or another and deliver together
extract the card and suited tool. to a specialized
identify the battery and its company for battery
placement on PCB. treatment.
2. Cut the lamella with a
clipper.
Please do not dispose the battery of your ROHDE & SCHWARZ TOPEX product as common waste
(household waste), recycle it to protect the human health and environment. For supplementary information contact
us to:
Phone: +4021 408 39 00 or www.topex.rohde&schwarz.com

VoiBridge Lite Record of Changes
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Contents
Dear Client! .............................................................................................................................................. 2
Conformity! ............................................................................................................................................... 3
Record of Changes ................................................................................................................................. 5
1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 8
2. VoiBridge Lite FEATURES ................................................................................................. 12
3. IDENTIFICATION ................................................................................................................ 13
3.1 LABELS AND IDENTIFICATORS ..................................................................................... 13
3.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF LABELS ............................................................................................. 13
4.3 SOFTWARE INFORMATION ............................................................................................ 15
4. INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................... 17
4.1 Establishing the Best Location........................................................................................... 17
4.2 Status indicators .................................................................................................................. 18
5. CONFIGURATION .............................................................................................................. 19
5.1 Required conditions for configuration................................................................................ 19
5.2 Using the web interface ...................................................................................................... 19
5.3. Set up a connection ............................................................................................................ 20
5.7. Dual Log-in........................................................................................................................... 24
5.8. Menu Items .......................................................................................................................... 26
5.7.1. Examples and Conventions Used in this Manual ........................................................ 27
5.8. SMS Pages (log-in as user) ............................................................................................... 28
5.8.1. Administrator Pages (log-in as admin) ......................................................................... 37
5.9. NETWORK........................................................................................................................... 38
5.9.1. Status ............................................................................................................................... 38
5.9.2. IP Settings ....................................................................................................................... 41
5.9.3. Static Routes. .................................................................................................................. 42
5.9.4. Commit ............................................................................................................................ 45
5.9.5. SNTP Client..................................................................................................................... 46
5.9.6. Firewall ............................................................................................................................ 48
5.10. Mobile ................................................................................................................................... 50
5.10.1. Status ............................................................................................................................... 51
5.10.2. Settings ............................................................................................................................ 56
5.10.3. AT Commands ................................................................................................................ 61
5.10.4. Operator selection .......................................................................................................... 63
6.4.6 Edit Operator List ................................................................................................................ 65
6.4.7. SIM Server ...................................................................................................................... 66
6.5 SMS ...................................................................................................................................... 67
6.5.1 Status ................................................................................................................................... 67
6.5.2 Settings ................................................................................................................................ 68
6.5.3 To/From E-Mail .................................................................................................................... 72
6.5.4 Send ..................................................................................................................................... 77
6.5.5 Group.................................................................................................................................... 80
6.5.6 Inbox ..................................................................................................................................... 87
6.5.7 Outbox .................................................................................................................................. 90
6.6 VoIP ...................................................................................................................................... 92
6.6.1 Codec Settings .................................................................................................................... 93
6.6.2 DTMF Settings..................................................................................................................... 94
6.6.3 Voice Settings..................................................................................................................... 94
6.6.4. RTP Settings ................................................................................................................... 97
6.6.5. SIP Settings..................................................................................................................... 97

6.7 CALL CONTROL ................................................................................................................. 98

6.7.1. Status ............................................................................................................................... 99
6.7.2 . Settings ............................................................................................................................ 103
6.7.3. Access In ....................................................................................................................... 104
6.7.4 Incoming calls .................................................................................................................... 106
6.7.5 Definition of DCR............................................................................................................... 107
6.7.6 Target, Ignore, Limit .......................................................................................................... 108
6.7.7 More ................................................................................................................................... 108
6.7.8 How Incoming calls are treated ....................................................................................... 109
6.7.9 Outgoing calls .................................................................................................................... 109
6.7.10. PBX Query .................................................................................................................... 112
6.7.10 Log Settings ...................................................................................................................... 114
6.7.11 Parameters ........................................................................................................................ 116
6.8 CDR .................................................................................................................................... 117
6.8.1 CDR Status ........................................................................................................................ 117
6.8.2 Call Detail Records Settings ............................................................................................ 117
6.8.3 CDR Files ........................................................................................................................... 119
6.8.4 View CDR Files ................................................................................................................. 121
6.9 REGISTER......................................................................................................................... 131
6.9.1 Status .................................................................................................................................... 131
6.9.2 Settings ................................................................................................................................. 132
6.10 LOCAL USERS ................................................................................................................. 133
6.9.1 Local Users Status ............................................................................................................... 133
6.9.2 Local Users Settings............................................................................................................ 134
6.9.3 Local Users Definition.......................................................................................................... 134
6.9.4 Mobile Users Definition ....................................................................................................... 135
6.9.5 Dynamic Call Routing and Call-back (CBK) Operation .................................................... 137
6.9.6 Trunk or User? ..................................................................................................................... 137
6.10 SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................ 139
6.10.1 Status .................................................................................................................................. 140
6.10.2 Syslog View ........................................................................................................................ 142
6.10.3 Syslog Settings .................................................................................................................. 144
6.10.4 Update Firmware ............................................................................................................... 145
6.10.5 Password Change ............................................................................................................. 152
6.10.6 Default Configuration......................................................................................................... 153
6.10.7 Save .................................................................................................................................... 156
6.10.8 Load saved settings........................................................................................................... 158
6.10.9 Time Settings ..................................................................................................................... 160
6.10.10 Cron tab ............................................................................................................................ 163
6.11 TOOLS ............................................................................................................................... 166
6.11.1 Capture .......................................................................................................................... 166
6.11.2 Settings .......................................................................................................................... 169
6.11.3 Download Capture ........................................................................................................ 171
6.11.4 View Capture................................................................................................................. 172
6.11.5 Ping ................................................................................................................................ 174
7 SPECIFICATIONS ...................................................................................................................... 177
7.1 Technical Specifications ............................................................................................................ 177
7.2 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................. 178
8 GLOSSARY................................................................................................................................. 179

1. INTRODUCTION
The VoiBridge Lite device is a versatile VoIP-4-mobile gateway that cuts down interconnection costs
and performs convergence between 2G/3G+ mobile voice networks and VoIP calls (supported protocols
are SIP and H323).

REASON FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS PRODUCT:
- To complete the line of Topex gateways

VoiBridge Liteis a new member of the Topex family of gateways and PBXs. It is a compact variant of
the classic VoIP to mobile gateway, featuring just four mobile modules and four ETH port. While previous
MobiLink devices connected analogue (FXO/FXS) or digital (ISDN NT/TE) phone ports to mobile
networks, this one has Voice over IP ports, since it was designed to convert outgoing and incoming calls
from VoIP to mobile.
The purpose remains the same, cutting down the costs of cellular calls, but the new mobile-4-VoIP
interface with LCR capabilities represents a new approach in convergence between VoIP (H323 and SIP
protocols) and home or corporate mobile communications.
By interfacing between mobile networks and IP it allows end customers to benefit by saving costs,
while its two modules design provides scalability and flexibility.
Scalability means that one can build up the solution cost effectively, by adding another device for
each extra pair of mobile channels required. Flexibility means that, while previous convergence equipment
from Topex did provide tens of VoIP and GSM channels on the same location (up to 60 channels), the
new product allows you to build a distributed solution, with individual VoiBridge I4-GSM devices featuring
up to four mobile channels located exactly where they are needed, located in several remote areas, in
different countries or even continents.
- To extend the range
While the analogue or digital MobiLink equipment allowed connections to phone terminals or PBXs
located a few meters or up to 1000m away, with VoiBridge Lite the length of the connection becomes
infinite. The mobile gateway may be located anywhere in the world and still perform its task as an
interface.
Support, debugging and firmware upgrading can also be performed faster and from a longer
distance. Previous versions of the VoIBridgeI4 were connected to a local computer via serial RS-232 or
USB cable. This allows management of the device, using an OAM program, sending/receiving SMS and
diagnostic or update of the firmware. These operations had to be performed from the computer connected
to it!
With this new VoiBridge I4-GSM , the management computer can be in anywhere in
the world. The professional who performs debug or update of firmware connects to it remotely, via
secure connection by IP networks.
Intended use
VoiBridge Litewas also intended to be a complimentary product for the line of Class 4 & Class 5
Topex Soft-switches, allowing cost-effective access to mobile networks for the SIP users registered to the
Topex IP-PBX.
Using the VoiBridge Litecan be beneficial for home users too, but it was intended for office
use, both for companies that have many foreign affiliates and for small to medium companies that already
own an IP infrastructure. Companies with international offices can use one or several VoiBridge
Litedevices at each location - the calls will be routed as VoIP via Internet to the respective locations where
they will be terminated as local GSM calls to the respective mobile networks, with minimum costs.

Enterprises with existing IP infrastructure will use the VoiBridge Litedevices to terminate the calls
to mobile networks, achieving substantial savings on outgoing and incoming calls from IP to agents in the
filed using GSM networks and vice versa.
It can also be used by providers, ensuring low-cost call termination at different locations throughout
the world. VoIP calls originating from anywhere can be sent via Internet to be terminated through
VoiBridge Lite devices located at the corresponding sites. The respective VoiBridge Litedevices will then
directs the calls to the required local GSM networks, with the minimum possible cost and best voice
quality.
Only imagination is the limit! Our VoIP-4-GSM gateway may be used in homes or sales offices, by
individuals or whole households, multi-tenant apartments, at hotels & motels, different professional offices,
churches and temples, stores and warehouses, brokerage offices, Law offices, , branch offices,
agencies for Real Estate, medical cabinets and clinics, clubs and Day care centers, cafs and
restaurants, gas stations, schools and University campuses, various other offices.

Flexible Usage
VoiBridge Lite can be used in several ways:
- with an IP PBX that has SIP subscribers;
- with an IP PBX that has analog subscribers and use a H323 trunk;
- without any PBX, directly with hardware SIP telephones,
- Without other hardware, using just soft phones, such as the free application SJ Phone.
In order to ensure correct installation/configuration and good operation of the VoiBridge Litedevice,
the manufacturer strongly recommends the study of this manual before attempting operation.

2. VoiBridge Lite FEATURES
The VoiBridge Lite device is a versatile VoIP-4-mobile gateway that cuts down interconnection
costs and performs convergence between mobile voice networks and VoIP calls (supported protocols
are SIP and H323).
VoiBridge Lite is fully configurable via Web pages; it does not require installation of drivers or
any additional software on a PC. The graphics interface that shows up in the browser allows easy
access to all its settings:
Since the product is Linux based, applications to enhance VoiBridge Lite or to customize it
according to the special needs of various clients can be quickly designed by our software developers.
When you sign up for our technical support offer, our best technical experts are available for
technical queries. In addition, the software upgrades can be done remotely via the Internet, and are
free of charge.
VoiBridge Lite is a highly versatile

solution, when the customers require
special solutions; its embedded
firmware can be easily upgraded over
the Internet.

VoiBridge Lite LABELS AND IDENTIFICATORS
3. IDENTIFICATION
3.1 LABELS AND IDENTIFICATORS

On the bottom of the case of every Topex device there are several labels or tags that indicate the
characteristics and compliance, as shown in the following example.
3.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF LABELS

These adhesive labels contain information about the manufacturer, type, model, certification,
approval and compliance to UE and international or USA directives such as FCC.
The labels may include barcodes and refer to the following data:
Manufacturer and product type
Manufacturer identification (name, phone, website);

Description (Gateway VoIP- GSM) and details of variant, in this case the type of mobile networks
it works with, and if it is fitted with one, two or four mobile modules
Model identification, such as VoiBridge Lite, which allows the network operator to check the
terminal as one of its approved models, so no additional certification or approval is required;
Network identification
Identification for the Ethernet network can include MAC for local and remote side, in case of
routers. VoiBridge Lite features 2 MAC addresses;
MAC LAN or WAN, the Media Access Control address (unique hardware number) on the local or
remote network side. VoiBridge Lite has four LAN ports, thus it will display one Mac address for
WAN access and one for LAN interface ports (there are three ETH ports for LAN connection);
IMEI code, International Mobile Equipment Identity for SIM based equipments. A unique 15- or 17-
digit number such as <<269751923786501>> that identifies an individual mobile station to a GSM
or UMTS network handset. The IMEI code is on all GSM and UMTS / HSPA mobile terminals,
commonly found in Europe, Asia, Africa and increasingly in America. If the Topex device features
several mobile modules for instance VoiBridge Lite has up to four GSM modules - it will have,
correspondingly, more IMEI labels - one for each mobile modem;

VoiBridge Lite SIGNIFICANCE OF LABELS
Default connect
Default IP address of the Topex device in the local

LAN and type of connection. For VoiBridge I4-GSM,
the default is https, with IP address 192.168.173.1
Warning! Please read carefully this label, since different Topex equipments may have different default IP
addresses, such as 192.168.1.1. or 10.0.0.1. The VoiBridge Lite gateways have, as shown by the label
glued at the bottom, the defaults address: 192.168.173.1
Also, the label clearly specifies the type of connection, which is HTTPS. Most Topex devices such a
secure connection, only a few use the ordinary http link. If you try to use the wrong type of connection, it
will not work, so please look at the Default connect label before establishing a connection to the
VoiBridge Litebox.
EMC, Safety, and CE Directive Compliance.
See Conformity chapter in Installation Manual for VoiBridge Lite equipment.
Product version
The label CODE indicates exactly what type of product it is. You must mention this code when you
call Support for upgrade and for repairs. Also, when you perform software upgrade, you must check that
the firmware version you want to load is fitted for your model of equipment.
Likewise, when the code of your equipment is a VOIBRI_V4O_SAX, you should look for V40
firmware, not for software versions with letters V2O or V4P:

VoiBridge Lite SOFTWARE INFORMATION
The rest of the letters (SAX, SBX, SCX) describe the software version, and of course you can load
a firmware image with more features, or an updated version (1.0.5 instead of 1.0.4), but the letters
describing the hardware model must correspond.
The hardware information is important, however keep in mind that the adhesive tab cannot ensure
the precise type and version of firmware, because the application software can very easily be updated or
upgraded by the user. After such a firmware update, the application program running on the Topex device
may no longer be the same that was described by the label on the bottom of the case of the device. To
learn about the current firmware, please use the Web interface of the Topex mobile gateway.
4.3 SOFTWARE INFORMATION

The Web interface displays some of the information described above, but also important additional
information, which is NOT available through the adhesive tags.
Such information is related to the serial of the motherboard of VoiBridge-I, or the software version
actually running on it.
For this you must access the System> Status page. Just enter into the browser the URL for the
page: https://192.168.173.1/
System Status
The information about serial number, current firmware and kernel can be found in the option
System> Status Information of the menu page SYSTEM, as shown below:
Here are displayed two categories of information :
- System info, with temporary (current) data, such as uptime, load average, free memory, etc;
or
- Device info, permanent data, which is important for this chapter serial number, firmware and
kernel versions, etc..

VoiBridge Lite SOFTWARE INFORMATION
The permanent identification info shown refers to the following elements:

- Serial Number: each gateway equipment from Topex has a unique identification number, such
as 3410579 or 1110584 in the above examples, etc. This is the serial number of the main
board of the Topex gateway. According to the requirements of the users, a certain VoiBridge
Lite motherboard may be factory-fitted with up to four modems of different types, or other
hardware features, but the serial numbers remain the same;
- Firmware version: version of the application firmware running on VoiBridge Lite: you may see
product-1.2.3-XXX-YYY. The name of the product may be VoiBridge-I, the version 1.0.2 or
1.0.9
Thisfirmware can be easily updated (a new version) or upgraded (new software features
added);
- Kernel version (Operating system version), such as system-1.0.9-XXX-YYY or topex-kernel-
1.0.2.-VXX-YYY in the examples above. The application firmware and the operating system
(root or kernel) may be updated separately, according to the requirements of the users. The
operating system memory is write-protected, thus in case of problems, accidental erasing or
power failure during updating, there is still a functional system allowing loading of a new
software image;
Also, information related to the four mobile modules may be displayed:
To be able to see this Status page, one must be logged-on to the VoiBridge Lite device.

VoiBridge Lite Establishing the Best Location
4. INSTALLATION
In order to ensure the proper operation of the VoiBridge Lite equipment you must follow the set-up
steps shown below:
Determine the exact type and model of Topex equipment
Establish the best location
Mounting (Hardware installation)
Identification of connectors
Connecting the Ethernet cable
Disable PIN code request for the SIM to be used
Configuring and installing the SIM cards
Connecting the external antenna for the mobile networks
Power up
Important note: Before starting installation, it is necessary to know exactly what type of equipment
it is (several different versions or sub-types come in the same case, plastic or metal).
In order to determine the exact type and model of Topex VoiBridge Liteequipment, look at all the
labels or indicators for the specific device.
Most of this information is found on the labels that are on the bottom of the case.
Note that some of these indications can only be seen in the administration programs (respectively
the Web interface). For instance, in case of firmware upgrade performed by the customer, the label on the
product remains the same, although the application program is now different!
4.1 Establishing the Best Location
In order to determine the best location for the TOPEX mobile router, consider the following:
The length of the Ethernet cables that connect the VoiBridge Litegateway to the PC or the
network switch must not exceed 100 meters.
VoiBridge Liteshould be placed on a flat, sturdy surface located as far from the ground as
possible. A high location, on the wall or on top of a desk or a shelf is best for the mobile connections, be it
with 3G or GSM networks.
Also, VoiBridge Liteshould be kept clear of obstructions and away from heat sources, direct sunlight
and heavy-duty electrical equipment.
To ensure good coverage of the entire wireless mobile network in the area, VoiBridge
Liteshould be installed in a central place in the building. Normally the antenna should be in a vertical
position, but if reflections occur, better results may be achieved by changing the orientation.
For power supply, use only the adapter shipped with VoiBridge I4-GSM .
The jacks of different power supplies may fit but the polarity, current, voltage or regulation factor
may not be compatible.
While the device is in operation, the antenna of the VoiBridge Liteunit should be at least 30
centimeters away from any human being.

VoiBridge Lite Status indicators
4.2 Status indicators

VoiBridge Lite has several optical indicators (color LEDs) three - red and green and yellow) that shows
the general status of the device. Other LED are for the for Ethernet interfaces and those for the up to
four mobile modules.
Figure 1: LEDs location
The indicators may light up continuously or flash to show status and traffic.
The three LEDs are located on the upper right area of the front panel. They are labeled respectively from
left to right L1, L2 and PWR..
5.9. Significance of LED indicators:
PWR: Shows powering of the device. Lights up green to indicate the proper power supply of
VoiBridge I4-GSM. Thus, in normal operation it should be always ON
L1: Red LED. Off = the operating system is not yet running, for example following a reboot. On =
the main pbx application is running. Blinking = the main application has not started yet
(initialization). Also, when the pbx application has stopped, this led will be blinking.
L2: Orange LED. Off = additional storage not installed, lights up = flash USB is mounted and valid.
This flash non-volatile storage may be internal or external (stick or USB-hard drive), inserted into
the USB slot on the front panel.
Upon hardware reset:

Upon power up, you hold the recessed RST button pressed. When all three LEDs light up, you release the
reset button. Then the red and green LED indicators will blink.

5. CONFIGURATION
The VoiBridge Lite can properly perform its functions of high-speed VoIP-4-mobile gateway with
the default settings. However, it can be easily configured to meet various usage scenarios.
Configuring or programming the equipment means adequate setting of all the parameters.
The embedded Linux firmware allows configuring the VoiBridge Lite without the need of
additional software on the computer used for programming. A web browser as configuration
terminal is all that is needed. This means that the VoiBridge Lite may be used on any computer
platform and is not restricted to a certain operating system! The examples in this manual are
form using Windows XP SP3, but VoiBridge Litemay be used with any operating system.
Using the web browser, the configuration can be performed remotely: the desktop PC or
notebook may be connected to the TOPEX IP gateway either directly or through a hub by means
of wired (Ethernet) connection.
Important Note: Prior to using this VoIP to Mobile device you should check the basic settings to
guarantee it will work in your environment (for instance, it may be required to change the default
IP address and subnet mask).
5.1 Required conditions for configuration
To be able to configure the VoiBridge Litedevice, one must be connected to a LAN (Ethernet
10Mb/s or 100 Mb/s) and have access to a computer that is connected to the same network, via
router or switch. Alternately, one may connect the VoiBridge Lite directly to the PC or notebook
that is used for programming, either with a crossover cable or with a straight Ethernet cable. The
Web interface may be accessed with any Web browser, no additional software is needed.
5.2 Using the web interface

The default address of the webpage of the VoiBridge Lite device is 192.168.173.1.
It is recommended to use the default IP address - if the configuration of the local network allows this

5.3. Set up a connection
Establish an Ethernet connection to be used with the VoiBridge Liteunit that needs to be configured.
Go to Network Connections on the computer and define a connection to be used for the VoiBridge
Lite mobile gateway.
Use a significant name, such as VoiBridge Lite or Topex Gateway or VoIP2Mobile
From the network adapters (network

cards), select the one which is connected
via Ethernet cable to the VoiBridge
Liteequipment.
In this example, it is the network board

type Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast
Ethernet NIC
Check the box Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

and click the button Properties to
configure your PC.
Configure the connection to VoiBridge Lite

either manually or automatically.

5.4. Automatic IP
The simplest way is to set the network adapter to get its IP address automatically from the DHCP
server of the local network, where the VoiBridge Lite unit is connected. The server will provide the PC or
netbook with the correct IP address, DNS and Gateway. This only works if you local network is of the
class 192.168.xxx.yyy, compatible with the default IP address of VoIBridgeI4 IP.
5.5. Manual settings

As an alternative, you can set the network parameters manually. By default, VoiBridge Litehas the
IP address 192.168.173.1 and the Netmask 255.255.0.0, settings which are used in the example below.
It does make sense to use manual settings for network configurations incompatible with the default
IP settings; you must use manual settings when the local network has some special requirements, which
the automatic configuration cannot satisfy, such as:
- different range of non-routable addresses used, like 10.*.*.* or 172.16.*.*; In this case you
must first set you computer manually to the range of addresses that VoiBridge Lite can see,
then configure VoIBridgeI4 for the requirements of your particular network, and finally revert to
using DHCP in your network, but with VoiBridge Lite now accessible.
- several VoiBridge Lite equipment used in the same LAN. More than two GSM modules may be
required, thus several VoIP-4-mobile gateways must be connected in your LAN. In this case
the first unit can have the default address, but for the next ones you should assign consecutive
addresses, such as *.*.*.2, *.*.*.3, *.*.*.4 etc.
In case of manual settings, in Internet
Protocol Properties fill in the
corresponding values:
- the IP address could be from 192.168.173.2

up to 192.168.173.254
- the Subnet mask could be the standard
255.255.255.0, or wider 255.255.0.0
- the Default gateway and Preferred DNS
server fields may be lefty empty!
In the status bar at the bottom of the screen the

link icon should be blinking, and a message will
show up: VoiBridge Lite is now connected
Note: When a Proxy Server is used for the local network, set an exception for the Topex
VoIP2Mobile, because otherwise access to the VoIBridgeI4 will not be possible.

5.6. Connecting to VoIBridge Lite
Enter the IP address of the VoiBridge Lite device (by default 192.168.173.1) in the list of
exceptions for the Proxy server: Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with
To configure the VoiBridge Liteproduct using the
web interface, just open a favorite web browser
and type the default IP address as the URL:
https://192.168.173.1
If connecting to the VoiBridge Lite equipment is not possible because of problems in the settings
of the IP address, go back to the factory default settings. Press the RESET button for at least
three seconds. The equipment reboots and starts operating with the factory default settings.
These include the IP address 192.168.173.1, allowing you to connect to the Topex VoIP2Mobile
in order to configure it. After reaching the configuration web pages, one may change the IP
address of the device according to personal requirements.
For instance, you can use addresses in the range

https://172.27.168.xxx/ or https://10.0.0.1, as shown in
this example:
Hardware Reset
To perform a reset, you must follow the procedure described next, simply pressing the recessed
RST button wont work. So you must follow these steps:
- shut down the VoiBridge Litedevice (unplug the power jack)
- press the RST button and keep it pressed
- power up VoiBridge I4-GSM
- wait until all three LEDs light up in green, orange and red, and then leave the RST button.
Now the equipment performs a reset with return to factory default settings. This does NOT happed
if you dont follow exactly the procedure described above for instance, if you continue to hold
RST depresses after the three indicators have turned on!
Note that the VoiBridge Liteuses a

secure web connection (https instead
of the usual http) so one may get
several warning messages for
example:

or similar warnings mentioning Website Certified by an Unknown Authority:
Click Yes, OK or Accept to continue.
Type OK to accept the certificate for the VoIBridgeI4 website.
Other Security Error messages may warn about Domain Name Mismatch, referring to the
security certificate.
Again click OK to continue.
One may receive the

warning You have
requested an encrypted
page or You are about
to view pages over a
secure connection.
This is normal; it shows
connection to VoiBridge
Liteover a secure,
encrypted link -
HTTPS.

The secure connection is confirmed by the padlock symbol that

shows up in the status bar at the bottom of the screen, indicating a
secure (encrypted) connection. VoiBridge Liteuses 128-bit SSL or
encryption to prevent hackers from capturing passwords and
sensitive data which is the same security used by banks and the
military.
Internet Explorer shows the padlock icon only when everything on the entire webpage is
encrypted. But even when the browser doesn't show a padlock, the "https://" address means the
data is still encrypted.
Other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, will also

show a lock icon near the VoIBridgeI4 connection,
together with a message that says: Authenticated by
topex.
5.7. Dual Log-in
From the fist configuration screen of the equipment you may select either:
- Administration Pages (management,

configuration pages)
- SMS Pages (send and receive text
messages)
- Rohde & Schwarz Topex S.A. webpage
Click the link of interest!
Now you will be asked to enter a user name and a password to access the configuration page of
Topex VoIBridge LITE.
To log-in as Administrator, ype the name admin and associated password 99admin11, as
shown:
Correspondingly, after log-in you may change the password.

For the administrator of the system

network, the default user name is admin
and the password is 99admin11.
Later, this password may be changed using
the web configuration page, as described in
the paragraph about Password.
For security reasons, it is strongly

recommended to change the default
password with one of own choice as
soon as possible. Also, do NOT mark
the checkbox Remember my
password in the browser
For a simple User, who has acces only to

the pages for sending out and readin SMS
messages, the recommended log-in is as
user, with the corresponding default
password of 99user11.
After successful log-in, the log-in name is shown in the Remote User field, under the Location
information:
Administrator:
User:
The Administrator admin has more rights, access to additional settings, while a simple user
cannot perform advanced routing configurations, he can just send and receive SMS messages.
When typing a different user name, or if entering an

incorrect password more than three times
consecutively, the following error message will be
displayed:
401 Unauthorized!
Connect again and be careful to enter the correct name

and password.
Following successful log-in, the main administration page for the VoiBridge Lite gateway should
be shown on screen.
After the configuration page is loaded, one can change any setting and then click the Save button
to save it in the current page and Commit button to make these changes permanent.

5.8. Menu Items
When you log-in as Admin, you will see the following menu of sub-pages to the left:
There are several sections (Menu items) on the configuration page of VoiBridge LITE , allowing
modifying the settings for:
HOME: this home page for configuration of the equipment.

NETWORK: settings for the local wired (Ethernet) network, including IP address and gateway,
default routes, NTP client service and firewall.
MOBILE: parameters for the 2G or 3G mobile voice / data networks, AT commands
SMS: send and receive messages from web interface, performs SMS-2-email and e-mail to SMS
conversions, send out group messages, view the state of sent SMS
VoIP: parameters related to the Voice over IP functions;
CALL CONTROL: all settings related to the PBX application running on VoiBridge I4-GSM , who
performs all the call management and control tasks;
CDR: Call detail records, persistent files holding detailed listing of the durations of calls performed
via VoiBridge-I, for billing purposes
REGISTER: Settings for registration service of remote and local users
LOCAL USERS: parameters for registration service of Local Users (SIP and Mobile);
SYSTEM: Performs operating system functions (update, change of password, logs) and Shows
current status;
TOOLS: miscellaneous instruments for debugging and optimization (advanced settings -capture
logs and tcpdump, send a ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts.
Depending upon the actual firmware version running on the VoiBridge Litegateway, one may or may
not have access to all these configuration sections or sub-sections (features, services).
The Menu bar is located to the left, and features the button Commit at the bottom.

On top of the web page, next to the

Topex logo, is a Location
indication, which reminds the user
exactly where he is on the Web
interface. In this example, the
section is Network and the
subsection IP settings (IP Settings
for the Ethernet connection).
Under the Location information is Remote User, which shows the name that was used for log-in,
User or respectively Admin.
Note:
- There are two types of pages, Status and Settings.
The Status pages only display the state of different items of VoIBridgeI4 IP, while the Settings
pages allow you to modify (change) various parameters and settings.
- At the bottom of every Settings page you can see these three buttons:
The button Save is used to save the changes performed, the Cancel button aborts the changes
(closes the window without modifying the current settings), and the Default button will reset the
values in the current page to the default (initial) configuration.
When changing the settings in any page, press the Save button keep these settings.
Otherwise, clicking any other link, reaching another configuration page, the modifications
performed will be lost.
5.7.1. Examples and Conventions Used in this Manual

Please note that all examples shown in the manual are illustration purpose only, the IP addresses, port
numbers, telephone phone numbers, routing rules, prefixes and names of mobile operators were valid for
Romania.
You must perform specific configuration according to the actual values for your country, area and mobile
carriers!
Also, the SCA number are reported by the mobile networks as +407,
the 040 being the international prefix for Romania.
Instead of a plus, you should use the international prefix for outgoing
calls, 00 , because the plus sign (+) is NOT understood by many
phone exchanges. All numbers must be entered with the leading
zeroes, to allow a correct routing.
For instance, all mobile phone numbers in Romania are ten digits long, and they begin with 07, while in
Italy mobile numbers are always 10 digits long, but they are without a leading zero, they start with a
three, 3.
Also, country codes which are represented as +40 or +39 should be entered as 040 or 039
respectively.

5.8. SMS Pages (log-in as user)
When you log as User, you dont have the full menu, you have access only to the page for text messages:
Moreover, you can only send messages and see the received messages, you dont have access to the
Settings for SMS and email-to-SMS features. The four sub-pages of the SMS menu are datailed next:
Send
To send out a text
message, simply enter
the destination phone
number, type or copy-
and-paste the text of
the message, then
press the Send button
located at the bottom!
You will see the message SMS is sending, please wait :
Then, in case of successful transmission, you will see the confirmation.
Also, when the message could not be sent immediately, you will see this warning:
Use the Refresh or Reload button of your browser to get out of this page.

Long Messages
The maximum number of characters for SMS is 160 characters in case of ASCII messages or 70 in case
of non-ASCII characters. But with VoiBridge Liteyou can send even longer text messages they will be
broken into several consecutive SMS, and sent one after another to the destination number.
The last box at the bottom of the Transmit SMS window shows you the number of SMS this is 1 for a
normal message, less than 160 characters long, or 4 in the example below:
This means that the long message, with 270 non-ASCII characters, will be sent out as a succession of
four SMS messages with a maximum length of 70 characters each!
Group
This feature allows
you to send group
messages, that is
text messages to
several phone
numbers, in single
operation.
At first, the SMS list is empty, use New to create a new record and Edit to modify it:
The first field is the name of the recipient of the message. This name is meaningful for the human
operator only, VoiBridge Litehas no use for it. The next field is the destination phone number, and the last
one, the text of the SMS message to be transmitted:

After you finished editing all fields in a row, the buttons at the bottom change, allowing you to Save the
edited messages or to abort the current editing with Cancel.
When you have finished editing all rows, the buttons change again, now you have the option to press
Send to transmit the messages, or Delete All to delete all the rows in a single operation.
Load CSV
One if the links at the bottom of is Load CSV file.

You can use it to load a CSV (comma separated
value) file previously created that holds the
names, telephone numbers and messages to be
sent.
Such a file may be created by using Microsoft

Excel or a simple text editor, such as Notepad.
The values for name, telephone number , and

text of the message must be separated by
commas.
Use the Browse button to look for the .csv or .txt file to be loaded:
Navigate in the folders of your computer, and select the .csv file of interest to you:
Then use the button Load to load the respective file into the VoiBridge Lite equipment.

You can review, edit or delete each row of the SMS list (every line corresponds to a SMS message), then
press Send to send out all the messages.
Of course, the transmission wont be simultaneous, VoiBridge Lite sends out the messages one after
another, starting with the one located at the bottom.
Following a successful transmission, if you no longer need the messages, you can delete all the
rows in the SMS list by using the button Delete All located at the right, below the SMS list.

Group sending
A variant of the group SMS operation is when you need to send a single message to several recipients
(phone numbers). This is a particular case, when the CSV file contains only names and telephone
numbers, the text filed is empty.
To send out the same text message to several destinations, load the CSV file with the corresponding
numbers:
You will see a SMS list with names and corresponding telephone numbers, but without any text for the
SMS message to be sent out:
Now use the link Edit All located at the bottom right, to edit all the SMS Text fields at once:

In this window, you can either enter the text by typing, or paste it from a location where you copy the text
of interest:
Use Save All button to save this text into all the rows of the SMS list, as shown in the next example:
After a final review, where you can edit or delete the current rows or add a new one, press the button
Send at the bottom of the list to send out the respective text to all the phone numbers in the list!

Inbox
Shows the SMS messages received on the VoiBridge Lite equipment.
Press the button Read SMS to see the list of text messages received by the SIM cards of the VoiBridge
Liteequipment.
Date: shows not only the date, but also the time when the message has been sent, up to seconds. (Also,
the time zone, such as GMT+2 in case of Bucharest).
Remember, this is not the time when the SMS was received by VoiBridge Lite, but rather when it has been
transmitted, usually set by the mobile carrier.
Number: phone number that has sent the SMS.
Text: the text of the message.
You can Delete or Save each of the received SMSs. These messages are stored in the volatile memory of
the equipment, so if one SMS is of high interest, it should be save onto your computer, because it will be
lost each time VoiBridge Lite is re-booted.

Outbox
Shows the SMS messages that have been sent out via VoiBridge Lite, and their current state:
Since the messages are sent out starting with the one at the bottom, it is normal that SMS 2 has already
been successfully sent, hence the message OK, while SMS 1 is still waiting to be transmitted.
In the next example, while sending out a group message (same text sent towards three recipients), the
SMS has been successfully sent to 2 and 3, while 1 must still wait his message is in the process of
being transmitted:
Finally, all the recipients in the list get their common message, they show the status OK:

5.8.1. Administrator Pages (log-in as admin)
Loging-in as Admin
When you log-in to VoiBridge Liteas administrator

(username admin and corresponding default password
99admin 11) you have access to all the features and
settings.
The first configuration page is NETWORK.

5.9. NETWORK
This group features the pages of settings related to the local wired Ethernet network, for IP, routes, SPI
firewall and respectively for the NTP Client:
5.9.1. Status
Each configuration submenu begins with a Status page that shows the current state for the
respective group of parameters. It this case, it shows info about the state of the Ethernet interface
and the current static routes:

Network Interface
This is the detailed information about the Ethernet network interfaces of the VoiBridge I4-GSM.
Since it features a switch, all four physical interfaces show a single logical interface, adm0.
Network contains two similar groups of network parameters:
Adm0
Here are shown details about the real Ethernet interface (four-port switch).
These include MAC (hardware, physical address), Internet address (logical address), Broadcast,
subnet mask, MTU value, metric, statistics (packets, errors, collisions, mega bytes transferred)
for the reception (RX) and respectively transmission (RX).
lo
Local Loopback interface
The same parameters are shown for the virtual, local loopback interface, at the standard address
for loopback, 127.0.0.1. Since it is a loopback interface, the number of bytes sent out will always
be identical to the number of bytes received.
Routes
Shows the current routes, taking the information from the Kernel routing table for IP
Or:
The Static Route Display shows the current routing table of the VoiBridge I4-GSM

Note that this is the Status page for network - the existing static routes for the VoiBridge Lite
(default routes, gateway, masquerading if used, flags, metric, interface used, etc) can be seen
and changes cannot be performed.
If needing to change the routes, go to the section Routes of this page, for defining and modifying
routes.
The routes are shown from the top downwards from the most specific to the least specific.
Destination - the destination network or host system. Declaring a default route means adding a
route with 0.0.0.0 as its destination. In case of networks, the last two groups of figures contain
only the digit zero.
Gateway - the access gateway the respective routing entry points to. If this field has only zeroes
(0.0.0.0) or an asterisk (*), this means no gateway is used, the destination network is connected
directly to the computer.
Genmask - the bit mask applied to the destination. It shows the generality of the route.
Flags - indicator flags that describe some characteristics of the route. Such flags are:
U - the route is active and operating, the interface to be used is up;
G - the route uses an external gateway ( the network interfaces of the system supply routes to the
networks which are directly connected, all other routes use external gateways. Thus, the
networks which are directly connected dont have the G flag, but it is activated for all other
routes).
H it is a route towards a single host instead of a network.
D - the table entry has been generated dynamically, either by a routing protocol or by an ICMP
redirect message (see section 3.5).
M this route was modified by a dynamic routing protocol;
R - the route was re-activated following update by dynamic routing protocol. Routes may be
configured as passive or static even when a protocol for dynamic routing is used.
Other fields refer to the Metric (routing cost), the number of references to this route, etc,
Finally, Iface is the name of the network interface used for this route.
For the Ethernet interfaces there is currently a single name, respectively adm0.

5.9.2. IP Settings
Here one can set up the parameters for the equipment in the local network. Settings for the LAN
IP of the VoiBridge Lite gateway are the standard ones: IP Address and Netmask, Gateway (if
used), Preferred and Alternate server for DNS.
These settings control how the Topex equipment connects into the local wired (Ethernet)
computer network.
IP settings for network
The default address value is 192.168.1.1 and the netmask is 255.255.255.0.

One may change these default
settings, if the configuration of the
network requires this, for instance
to 10.0.0.1 in this example:
Usually the IP
address
allocated for
VoiBridge Liteon
the LAN side is
a non-routable
(internal)
address, as the
ones shown
here, in the
range
192.168.xxx.yyy:
When changing this IP address, VoiBridge Litetries to redirect the web browser to the new
address automatically. If it does not succeed, update the configuration page by entering the new
IP address in the browser, such as https://192.168.173.4 in the above example and pressing the
Reload button of the browser.

DNS Servers:
Select which primary and secondary servers for DNS (Domain Name Service) will be used. The Name
Servers may be from the local network (address 192.168.x.y) as the second entry in the following example
or from the public network, the great Internet, such as 208.67.220.220 in the example below:
Other name-server examples
Saving Use the Save button at the bottom of the page to save the
settings, Cancel to abort or default to return to the defaults for the IP
address page, and then Commit (down on the column to the left of
the screen) to make permanent the IP settings
5.9.3. Static Routes.

Routing means determining and prescribing the path or method used for forwarding data packets.
This option page is concerned with defining fixed (static) routes. It shows the current routing table
for VoiBridge Lite and allows defining several static routes.
The routes established here will be shown in the page Network ->Status-> Routes.
At fist, the list is empty.

Set IP Routes lets one edit, remove or add routes in the table shown below:
Static Route Definition
Such a static route is a possible path from a device to its destination or to another host.
One must insert predefined rules of routing for the VoiBridge Lite in case of appending one or several
network devices such as routers behind the VoiBridge Lite device, to share the same connection to the
mobile Internet. This way the VoiBridge Lite gateway will be able to know where it may deliver the data
packets coming from the Internet with different destination IP addresses.

Buttons
Use New to create a new row (route definition), Edit to edit an existing definition, Exit get out of the table,
and Save to save the changes. Del erases from the table an existing route.
Defining a route
Net: Address of the remote network or host to which you want to assign a static route. Notice that it is not
an IP address, like the one for the Topex VoIBridgeI4 device, but the address of a network, so that the last
two groups of figures will always be zero.
Netmask: the subnet mask determines which portion of the destination IP address is the network part and
which is the host part.
Gateway: the gateway to be used, enter here the IP address of the router which allows for contact
between VoiBridge Lite and the remote host or network.
Enable:
Each of the routes defined or edited can be individually enabled or disabled.
By default, this field is set to Disabled, meaning that the routes are saved, but they
are not active.
This is especially useful when configuring several VoiBridge Litedevices one after another, or
when the configuration and requirements of the local network change frequently.
In this case you can pre-define several routes, even if they are not currently in use, and leave
enabled only the ones strictly necessary for the current configuration.
The other routes are available, they may be edited and enabled as the need arises.

5.9.4. Commit
The Commit option described here is not specific to the Network, but it is rather a general option for
Topex devices.
If configuration changes were performed, using the Save button is not enough
since it saves the modifications only into the temporary memory of the
VoiBridge I4-GSM .
Always press the Commit button if these changes need to be

permanent.
This button is located at the bottom of the Menu list, to the left side of the
screen.
There is a Commit Settings message and, underneath it, a red progress bar
over black or grey background which says:
Saving changes, please wait
Saving will take some time, because the changed settings are saved into
permanent (Flash) memory of the equipment.
The VoiBridge Literesets, and when it starts again, the new set of parameters
will be active.
Warning: While committing changes, when resetting the VoiBridge I4-GSM or while loading a
new program image, the equipment will cease operation for a few seconds.
This means all connections: mobile, VoIP, local network etc. will be interrupted,
but they will resume when the VoiBridge Lite starts again.

5.9.5. SNTP Client

Enables and configures the NTP Client application of VoiBridge I4-GSM .
The Simple Network Time Protocol is used to update the real-time clock in a computer, over
Internet.
It uses one or several remote dedicated Time servers on the Internet that accurately
synchronizes the system date and time.
Status of NTP Service: Enabled or Disabled; by default it is disabled

Server: enter the full name of the NTP server in need to use, such as utcnist.colorado.edu or
ro.pool.ntp.org.
The Current time indicator shows the current UTC time (Universal Coordinated Time) of the
system, with millisecond precision.
Notice there are two fields, for Time Server 1 and 2. You may use severs from different network
classes, for instance one in the local network of the company, such as 192.168.168.168 in the
examples below, and the other on the public Internet, like utcnist.colorado.edu for USA or
specific or generic servers for Europe (europe.pool.ntp.org) or Romania.
When the NTP feature of VoiBridge
Liteis not active (it is disabled, the
selected server is not online, or
there is no connection to the
Internet) it will display the default
UTC date/time, which is begins at
date Jan 1, 2000 and time 0:00:00.

You can temporary enable the SNTP service, to synchronize the time, and then disable it, and rely on the
embedded RTC of VoibridgeI4-GSM to keep accurate time. Owing to its Real Time Click feature, it is not
absolutely required that the NTP Client be active all the time. Whenever the NTP Client becomes active, it
shows the current UTC time :
This UTC time may be different from the local time of your computer!
To adjust the Local Time, or to set it up manually, go to the configuration page SYSTEM>Time.
When the NTP feature is enabled, one can see in the system logs the moment when the application
running on VoiBridge Lite connects to the Internet and synchronizes the time.
At that moment, the date and time jumps from the default one beginning at Jan 1 2000 to the actual
date/time supplied by the NTP server selected by the user:

5.9.6. Firewall
VoiBridge Lite comes with a default firewall configuration, which ensures the security of your local
network. The Firewall section includes a window for viewing and changing the IP tables settings:
Here you can see the current state of data packets received and accepted. Press the button Edit located
at the bottom to go to the table with rules to perform changes:

Enter the new rules that you want to add, for instance :
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p all -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j DROP
-A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 631 -j ACCEPT
When you are finished, use the buttons at the bottom:
Apply immediately applies the new rules, but they are not yet saves. Save saves them, but only in the
temporary memory. The rules do not become persistent, unless you press the Commit button.
This is useful when testing new rules: you edit them and press Apply, than watch for the effect. If you do
not like how the firewall performs, you just reboot the VoiBridge Liteequipment, and the recent changes
will be lost, so you can start again editing the IP tables!
Definition
IP Tables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables
provided by the firewall of the Linux kernel (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains
and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols, the
iptables apply only to IPv4.
A firewall using iptables this way is said to be a stateful firewall versus the older, stateless firewall,
which was not fully aware of the context from which a data. Therefore, the iptables firewall can make
better decisions on the fate of packets and connections.,
There are five predefined chains, though a table may not have all chains. Predefined chains have
a policy, for example ACCEPT, which is applied to the packet if it reaches the end of the chain. The
system administrator can create as many other chains as desired. These chains have no policy; if a
packet reaches the end of the chain it is returned to the chain which called it. A chain may be empty.
PREROUTING: before effective routing, packets will enter this chain as soon as they are received by an
interface, before a routing decision is made.
POSTROUTING: after the local routing is performed, but before leaving an interface
INPUT: Right before they are sent a local process, the rules apply to external packets that are sent to the
equipment.
OUTPUT: Right after they are generated by a local process, rules apply to packets that get out of the
VoiBridge equipment.
FORWARD: transfer operations, the data packets are coming in through one interface and getting out via
another interface. All packets that have been routed and were not for local delivery will traverse this chain.

After you perform changes, you will see the completion date for the changed rules:
When you are sure that the firewall works properly, dont forget to click the Save button and then
Commit to make the changes you performed permanent.
5.10. Mobile
The Mobile section is for viewing and configuring the mobile interfaces (1 4) of the equipment.
It has several sections:

one for displaying the current state;
another for configuring the mobile modules
the third one for operator selection (blocking the module to a certain mobile carrier), including the
definition of the list of mobile operators;
the fourth for sending AT commands directly to the mobile modules,
and the last one for SIM Server (when used):

5.10.1. Status
Displays the state of the selected mobile interface:
First, select the Mobile interface whose state will be shown select 1, 2, 3 or 4 , then press
Load to see the current state (below for Mobile 4):
In case of 3G modules, an additional field

show up, indicating the technology of the
mobile network, in this case 2G for the
Orange carrier
With another SIM card, the same

Mobile1 connects to the corresponding
mobile carrier, showing usage of 3 G
technology;

Likewise, should
Mobile2 be
selected, the Topex
device will show the
state of the second
GSM module, in this
examples registered
to different carriers
Other modules will show different:
PIN state of the PIN code. Ready or OK is the normal state, which means the SIM is active (unlocked)
and the equipment may be used. It happens when the PIN is not requested, or that it is asked for, the
correct value has been entered, so the operate. If it shows ERROR, it means the respective SIM is
blocked because of a missing or incorrect PIN code. You must disable PIN request for the subscriber
card!
Network when the respective SIM is properly registered, this field shows the name of the mobile
network where the equipment is registered, as transmitted by the mobile carrier and understood by the
mobile. Thus, it can be either the commercial name of the carrier, such as RO Orange, CONNEX GSM,
COSMOROM and so on, or a code like <<0,2, 22601,2>>. If the Sim is missing or not properly
registered, this field may display Limited service
2G/3G for equipments fitted with 3G modules, it shows the type of network: either 2G or 3G (second or
third generation).
This is the technology (GSM/GPRS or UMTS/HSDPA) of the mobile network where the module is actually
connected, provided that the network allows this information;
Sim card ID it shows in fact the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) code, that is specific to
the subscriber, therefore to the Sim card used in the Topex equipment. See below a few IMSI codes, from
different SIM cards used in the modules of VoiBridge I4-GSM :
22601965134273
22601853012194
22610574108729

When the Mobile module of VoIBridge Lite detects an active SIM card, it will query (and display)
the IMSI code. Since the IMSI code is related to the SIM, when changing the SIM card used with
the respective GSM module, the user will have another IMSI code.
IMEI - the International Mobile Equipment Identifier is a 15-digit number that uniquely identifies an
individual mobile terminal wireless device. While IMSI is specific to the subscriber (SIM card),
IMEI is specific to the equipment (cellular modem of VoiBridge Lite)
If the SIM card is missing, the SIM Status window will show error in the fields PIN, IMSI, Signal
Level, Network and respectively Registration. But the user will still see the IMEI code, since it is
equipment-dependent, and not related to the SIM card.
Signal Quality - The level of the signal received from the mobile network.
This level may display as a relative or absolute value.

Older firmware versions did show only the relative level,
on a scale from 0 (minimum) up to 99 (the maximum).
The relative scale of signal quality is especially useful

for making comparisons between different types of
external antennas, their locations or the orientation, if
directional aerials are used.
In this example, moving the omni directional stick
antenna slightly has increased the signal level on
interface Mobile 2 from 9/99 to 11/99:
The newer firmware versions show the level directly in
dBm, as shown in this example.
Signal level is shown with a minus sign, this means that
a smaller figure corresponds to a higher signal level.
For instance, -85 dBm corresponds to a better signal
quality than -101 dBm, and -75 dbm is even better!!!
Audio /AMR enables or disables the Adaptive Multi-Rate

() Vocoder. AMR is a patented audio data compression
scheme optimized for speech coding, according to GSM
06.90. AMR was adopted as the standard speech codec by
3GPP in October 1998 and is now widely used in GSM and
UMTS. This only works with certain GSM modules (form
Siemens).
At the bottom there is a Load button again - click it to refresh the display of modules status.
This way one is sure to see the current state of the mobile module and subscriber information!

Notes:
To be able to display the current state, the respective mobile module must NOT be in a call! When the
GSM module is routing a VoIP call, or transmitting an SMS message, it will no longer be available for
status interrogation, so it will display Busy:
This does not mean something is wrong, simply that the module is unavailable for status interrogation.
Try again (click Load) later, when finished with the voice call or the transmission of SMS messages.
Of course, it is possible that the respective SIM is really

unavailable; missing, not registered, or the corresponding
module (mobile3 in this case) has been disabled from the web
configuration page!
Then, even if you press reload, the displayed state will still be
busy, indicating that the respective SIM card / mobile module
is not available!

1. Likewise, the value zero for the signal

quality does not mean <<no signal at all>>, it
is simply the lowest value indicated by the
equipment.
In this case one may have a Limited service
warning - the Sim is still registered to the
network, but cannot be used for ordinary
voice calls, it is only good for the emergency
services!
3 . The Mobile information available depends

upon the actual type of the cellular module
used in VoiBridge Liteand upon the service
provider.
Thus it is possible that you get less detailed
information, as in the following example:
Limited Service
The message Limited Service
indicates a SIM registered to the
mobile network, but not having
access to all of the services
provided by the respective carrier
perhaps the Sim does not have
enough credit left, or the mobile
cell is overloaded, and the network
operator tries to prevent overload
of the access channel under
critical conditions (emergencies).

5.10.2. Settings
The settings for the four mobile interfaces: One can edit the parameters for each of the two
cellular interfaces of the VoiBridge l .
There are some differences, according to the type of modules in your actual equipment. If the mobile
modules are for 3G+ network, an additional configuration field, Network type, will show up in this
configuration page.
Click Edit of the Mobile Interface where you want to change the parameters:
Network Type if available, this option concerns registering with the mobile
network. Here one can establish the selection of the type of network to which the
module will connect. This option is available only in case of 3G modules!
The default is Auto, for automatic search, but one can make the module connect
either only to 2G networks (GSM, GPRS, and EDGE) or only to 3G networks
(UMTS/HSDPA).

Volume
When the feature is active, one can modify the sound level both for the
output TX and input RX of the voice channel. Note that this feature is
not available for all types of modules; some GSM modules do not support
this.
Select Volume to change the audio level for input and respectively for
output. The default may be -18dB for RX and -8dB for TX, you can select
to increase / diminish the volume as you need, in 1 dB increments ( from -
20 dB up to + 6 dB).
One may use the "Default" button located at the bottom of the page to restore
the default level for both input and/or output.
Definition of RX and TX
In this page for Mobile Settings, RX is the voice path coming form the mobile network towards VoIP,
while TX is the reciprocal voice path, which comes form VoIP towards the mobile network.
Note1: Dont forget to use the button Save to store the changes performed over the audio volume.
Note2: The audio volume can be set up only when the State of the Mobile module is ready, which
means registered but not busy.
If the module was busy dialing a number, or sending / receiving SMS messages, it will not be available
for interrogation, so the request to set a different audio level will not be applied.
Note3: Some type of GSM modules provide an additional volume control, CALIBRATE.
The values typed into the Calibrate field affect the default volume
setting, you can make the default (0 dB) level louder or weaker, if
needed.
The initial (factory default) value for Calibrate is 8192, you can increase it up
to 32768, or diminish it down to 1024.
You can set up the Calibrate field independently for each module, and for
transmission and reception.
Note4: Do not change the audio level parameters unless necessary, as this may affect the voice
quality.

CLIR restrict sending identity

One may select to send out or not the Caller ID (presentation). If you choose
Yes, VoIBridgeI4 will perform CLIR - the identity of the call will not be sent
(identity restricted). No means CLIR is disabled, so ID will be sent.
Network means the sending or not of caller ID is established by the mobile
network.
See below an example of call with restricted identity, ANI shows up as
unknown:
Warning: Several services, including routing of calls, rely on the ID of the caller, if you select Yes, these
services may no longer be accessed.
CLIP - Receiving identity

Yes of No the same applies for receiving the calling line identification
presentation.
Note the options concerning CLIP enable or disable sending or receiving
of ID for all the calls performed over the respective Mobile module
Action
The button to the end of each row shows either Edit, to edit it, or two
options,
Exit to quit editing the respective line of settings, and More to go to the
following page for configuring the parameters of the mobile interface.

Press More to continue:

The window which shows up includes all
the settings, for the respective module
(mobile2 in this example).
There was no room to display all the
settings in the previous table, which
included all two or four modules, so if
you need to edit all l the settings, you
must use this kind of vertical window, for
each module.
The fields Status, Volume for Rx and TX,
CLIP and CLIR have been explained
previously, here are also other
parameters: progress tone, PIN, etc.
Progress Tone
Enables or disables (default is No) the generation of audio tones that indicates
the progress of establishing a call.
PIN for each mobile interface, you can enter a PIN code. If you
leave this field empty, or if you type a value of 0000, no PIN will be
taken into account.
Of course, this feature is active only when PIN REQUEST has
been enabled for the respective SIM card!

If you enable the request for PIN code, but you enter a value different from the real PIN of the SIM card,
the module will be. So you must either enter the correct value, or disable the request for PIN on the SIM
card!
Warning you could reset the VoiBridge Litedevice after you see that a SIM is locked by PIN. But if you
reset the equipment three times in a row, the limit for PIN request will be reached, the SIM will become
permanently blocked, requiring the PUK code to work again!
Reset for each module, you can set up a time interval following which the
respective module will be resetted.
Form the drop list that shows up, you can select None (default, no resetting),
5 minutes, 10 minutes, and so on, up to three days.
This is an easy to use mean of programming a reset, if you need more
advanced timing options you can use the option Cron, which is
implemented in the System configuration pages.
The field Audio/AMR can be present or not, depending upon the actual
type of mobile module used. It selects to Enable or Disable the usage of
AMR coding for GSM calls. AMR coding is typically used for mobile calls
with very good results, but, since it is optimized for voice calls, when you
disable it, it favors receiving of DTMF over GSM.
Another field that shows up only for certain equipments 9fitted with 3G
modules) is Network. You can choose the technology of the mobile
network to be used either 2G (GSM/GPRS) or 3G
(UMTS/HDSPA/HSUPA). The default is Auto, meaning the equipment
looks first for 3G networks, and if they are not available, it will connect to
2G networks.
The last field, SIM, is present for all types of VoiBridge I4 devices. It
refers to the usage of SIM cards either Local, the real SIM card placed
in the Sim holder, or Server - a virtual SIM will be used instead, from the
remote SIM Server. By default it is set to Local, VoiBridge I4-GSM makes
use of real SIM cards.
Before leaving this section, choose one of the buttons at the bottom,
Save, Cancel or Default.

5.10.3. AT Commands
Allows you to send AT commands directly to the
GSM modules of the equipment and then see the
respective results:
First select the GSM module to be queried, choose mobile Interface 1, 2 4.

Then type in the field Command the AT command that you want to issue to the module, such as ATI
which displays the type of mobile module, in the above example, or AT+cpin?, and press the
button Execute to execute the command.

The command and the result (the response from the module to the query) will be displayed in the upper
field, named Response, as you can see in the examples below for AT+cops?,:
The Response field in the upper part of the screen shows:

- which mobile interface has been queried, by displaying a number above the command and the
answer to the command, respectively 32 (for mobile 1), 33 (for mobile 2), 64 (for mobile 3) and 65
(for mobile 4)
- the command issued
- the response, above the command
- the result, either OK or ERROR.

AT Commands
AT commands are instructions used to control a modem. Many of them, initially used to control wired dial-
up modems, are also supported by 2G/3G modems and mobile phones. Besides this common (basic) AT
command set, GSM/GPRS modems and mobile terminals support an extended AT command set, which is
specific to the GSM technology. VoIBridgeI4 currently uses internally such extended commands for voice,
data and SMS, but with this configuration page, you can send commands directly to the wireless modems
of the equipment.
Some examples of such commands are shown below:
Get basic information about the mobile modem. Such information may be the name of
manufacturer (AT+CGMI), model number (AT+CGMM), IMEI number (International Mobile
Equipment Identity) (AT+CGSN) and software version (AT+CGMR).
Get basic information about the subscriber. To find out MSISDN use
AT+CNUM and for the IMSI code (International Mobile Subscriber
Identity) use AT+CIMI.
Get the current status of the mobile phone or GSM/GPRS modem. For example,
mobile phone activity status (AT+CPAS), mobile network registration status
(AT+CREG), radio signal strength (AT+CSQ).
Establish a data connection or voice connection to a remote modem (ATD, ATA, etc).
Send (AT+CMGS, AT+CMSS), read (AT+CMGR, AT+CMGL), write (AT+CMGW) or delete

(AT+CMGD) SMS messages and obtain notifications of newly received SMS messages
(AT+CNMI).
Control the presentation of result codes / error messages of AT commands. For example, you can
control whether to enable certain error messages (AT+CMEE) and whether error messages should
be displayed in numeric format or verbose format (AT+CMEE=1 or AT+CMEE=2).
Get or change the configurations of the mobile modem. For example, change the GSM network
(AT+COPS), bearer service type (AT+CBST), radio link protocol parameters (AT+CRLP), SMS
center address (AT+CSCA) and storage of SMS messages (AT+CPMS).
Save and restore configurations of the mobile modem. For example, save (AT+CSAS) and restore
(AT+CRES) settings related to SMS messaging such as the SMS center address.
5.10.4. Operator selection

This allows you to lock each mobile module of the equipment to a specified network operator:

By default, all modules are set to Automatic, which means there is no locking, each module searches and
finds its network carrier, according to the SIM used.
You can Edit the line for each of the

four interfaces:
If you select Manual, then you must

also choose a certain operator from
the drop list.
When Operator is left to the default any, no locking is performed.

The Operator drop list shows the 5-digit code (22601, 22602 and so on) followed by the name of the
respective network operator.
This list is country- and area- specific, so you should use a list corresponding to the mobile carriers which
are active in your territory.
To define / modify this list, use the link Edit Operator List that is located at the bottom of the page:
6.4.6 Edit Operator List

At first, this list is empty.
You may create new records in

the list, edit them, save or delete
each line of the table.
In the column Operator you

enter the name of the mobile
provider, while in the filed Code
you type the corresponding
international code.
The list in this example has been

edited for Romania, and
includes all mobile operators
registered in our country.
For instance, in the case of Australia, the Operator List will look One.Tel 505 08
like this Telstra Mnet 505 01
VODAFONE AUS 505 03
YES OPTUS 505 02
While for Spain, the corresponding table with E AIRTEL 214 01
operator and network codes is the following:

E AMENA 214 03
MOVISTAR 214 07
MOVISTAR 214 02
You can Edit the existing records, or add New

ones to the list.
Save the new Operator List, then use the link

Back located at the bottom to return to the
page for Operator Selection.
6.4.7. SIM Server

It should be used when instead of a local physical SIM card you connect to a remote SIM sever to provide
you with SIM information.
By default this feature is Disabled.
When you need to use a remote SIM

server, you must complete the IP address
of the server, the port used, such as
12017 in this example, and the name of
the connection, such as voibridge-I-V4H
in this example.
Of course, these settings must agree with the parameters set up on the SIM Sever!

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5 SMS
Here are located all the settings for SMS functions: display status, establish configuration, set up
parameters for SMS to e-mail and e-mail to SMS conversion, transmitting messages from the Web
interface, group sending of messages to several mobile numbers, inbox and outbox for SMSs:
6.5.1 Status
Of course, Status shows the current STATE of the e-mail to SMS and SMS to e-mail features, and the
addresses of the service centers for the up to four SIM cards:
Here you can only see information, you cannot change the settings. Go to the next page for configuring
the SMS-related parameters!

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5.2 Settings
The SMS settings include the SCA numbers, the time interval for clearing out SMS messages, and the
outgoing rules for text messages:
SCA SMS Service Center Addresses
The phone number of the service

center, SMSC, is very important for
sending out SMS messages, no matter
if you send them from your cell phone,
from the Web interface of VoiBridge
Liteor from the E-mail-2-SMS program.
Thus the address of this service center
must be set up correctly.
The SMSC (SMS center) is responsible for handling the SMS operations of a mobile network. It routes
SMS messages sent from a mobile phones or terminals. When the recipient is not available (out of the
coverage area, cell phone switched off), the SMSC will store the SMS messages. Later, when the
recipient is available, the SMSC will forward the messages.
Generally the SMS centers are specific to each carrier, so in order to use SMS messaging with your
terminal or with VoIBridgeI4 IP, you must know the correct address of the SMSC for the operator of the
respective mobile networks.
Typically an SMSC address is an ordinary phone number in the international format (ITU E.164/E.163),
such as +20122000020 or +49-1715990000. There are also exceptions, for instance in Albania the
operator AMC uses, following the country prefix +355, a short number for SMSC, 3820.
Normally, the SMSC address is pre-set in the SIM card by the respective mobile wireless network
operator, and VoiBridge I4-GSM reads it form there, which means you do not need to make any
changes to it.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Also, most cell phones provide some means for the user to view and change the service center number
saved in the profiles of settings, so you could set up or change the address of SMSC. For example, on
several Nokia phones, the message center number saved in the default profile of settings can be viewed
and changed by going to Menu -> Messages -> Message settings -> Text messages -> Sending profile ->
Default profile -> Message centre number.
This means you can set up the address on the SIM, using an ordinary mobile phone, before inserting the
SIM card into the VoiBridge Litedevice.
VoiBridge Litegets the SMSC address automatically from each SIM, but you can also change the SC
numbers, if there is need to.
To perform this change, you can use the configuration page SMS>Settings:
You can do it also the hard way! Go to the configuration page Mobile>At Command and use the
command AT+CSCA (Service Centre Address) to read or set the address of the service center through
which SMS messages will be sent out:
The command AT+CSCA? asks for the current SMSC address,

while the command in format AT+CSCA=number sets up the
new address to the phone number of your choice, such as the
one for Vodafone Romania, shown below:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
CLEAN SMS
This is simple and easy to use setting for cleaning out the received SMS messages.
It is possible that you receive very many text messages, and most of them are of no further use after
reading, so that you have to erase the received SMS, in order to avoid cluttering of the memory.
The Clean SMS feature performs automatic cleaning out (erasing) of

the received text messages.
From the drop list, you may select the time interval for deletion.
The default value is None, meaning no erasing is performed.
You may choose one of the pre-set time intervals for cleaning out the
SMSs: 5 minutes, 10 minutes and so on, up to 3 days, which means
that the messages will be erased every three days!
Outgoing Rules
Here you can define outgoing rules for the text messages, decide for each prefix, real or made up, which
mobile module (interfaces from mobile1 up to mobile4) will be used for sending out the respective SMS
messages:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
At first the table has no rules, you must use

New to add new records:
(Note that later you can enable or disable

each rule)
and Edit to and modify them:

complete the fields for prefix, digits to be
ignored, and interface to be used.
You can set different rules for voice calls and for text messages!
Explanation of the seven outgoing rules defined in the first table:

- First, you can assign normal, straightforward routes for minimum costs: each text message will be
sent out via the module registered in the destination network.
Thus, text messages for destination numbers beginning with 072 will be routed via mobile1
interface, which has a SIM card for the network operator who has 072 prefixes, text messages for
destination numbers beginning with 076 will be routed via mobile2 interface, which has a SIM card
for the network operator who has 076 prefixes, and so on.
-
Finally, the rule no. 5 says that SMS's with 078xxxxxxx destinations, for which there is no
dedicated mobile module, may be routed through any available mobile interface!
- But you can also force direct routing of messages, no matter which is the real phone number of
the destination.
For instance, if you want to output a text message through mobile1 interface, you dial a 1 before
the destination number.
- The message will be routed via interface1, and the fist digit, which was not a real one, will be
ignored.
Similar, when you want to use the mobile2 interface, you will dial a 2 before the telephone
number.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5.3 To/From E-Mail

This page controls the E-mail2SMS and SMS2E-mail features.
First, you set up the parameters for the mail gateway application, then you may decide to enable or
disable each of the features.
For instance, when SMS to Email is disabled, as shown in the next example, the received messages will
be shown in the Receive page.
But if you enable this feature, the SMS messages, as soon as they are received, will be sent out as e-mail
messages, then erased.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
E-mail to SMS
Settings for sending out of e-mail messages as SMS:
You should use a special (dedicated) e-mail account for this.
Status: you must Enable this feature, in order to use it.

By default it is disabled.
Settings for the incoming mail server (POP3), the address and
the port to be used for the customer.
Some mail server may use different port numbers, such as 465 or
991, instead of the standard one.
User name and associated password for the mail account SMS
Outbox.
Authentication method used for authentication, must be set

according to the actual requirements of the POP3 mail server.
Check interval you set the value, in seconds, when VoiBridge

Litechecks for new e-mail messages to send out as SMS

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Using E-mail to SMS feature
You must set up your mail client accordingly.

The messages are sent out from the account called User@customer.com and the destination is SMS
Outbox.
The message must be sent as Plain Text, not

HTML, and will be cut (truncated) at 160
characters.
Also, you should use either ASCII or Unicode

(UTF-8) encoding.
In the Subject field, enter the phone numbers

as destination for the SMS.
You may type a single mobile number, or
several phone numbers, using blank space as a
delimiter, as you can see in this example.
The respective e-mail message will be sent out as a SMS to all the mobile phone numbers you have
entered in Subject.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
In the example below, a VoiBridge I4-GSM gateway has received, among other text messages, the ones
sent out by another mobile gateway using the mail-2-SMS feature (form phone number with 07222 prefix):
SMS to E-mail
Settings for the reciprocal feature, which converts received SMS into e-mail messages
Status: you must Enable this feature, in order to use it.

By default it is also disabled.
When you Enable SMS-to-Email, the received messages will no longer be
seen in Receive, because they are deleted as soon as they are sent out as
E-mail messages.
From/To mail settings.

In the FROM field you can enter any address, it is not a real e-
mail sender. However, you should use a meaningful name.
In the above example, the secretaries at office will know that the e-mails coming from the sender SMS
Inbox are in fact converted SMS messages, and may set up their mail client to process these messages
accordingly.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Settings for the incoming mail server (SMTP), such as

smtp.access4less.net or smtp.emailsrvr.com, the protocol to be
used (classic SMTP or Extended SMTP) the address and the
corresponding port to be used for the customer.
Some mail server may use different port numbers, such as 3535
or 7891, instead of 25 which is the standard ones.
Authentication method used for authentication, must be set

according to the requirements of therespective SMTP mail server.
You may choose either no authentication, plain text password, or with
log-in.
User name and associated password for the mail account SMS inbox.
Check interval you set the value, in seconds, when VoiBridge

Litechecks for new SMS to send out as e-mail messages
The example below shows a topex account into which were received, among usual e-mails, mail
messages sent from a VoiBridge Lite GSM gateway:
The messages come form the account

VoiBridge-I@company.ro and have the
Subject: from <<phonenumber
07222xxxxxxxxxx>>
Date yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, as shown to
the right:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5.4 Send
Use this page to send out SMS messages form the Web interface of VoiBridge I4-GSM.
Fist, type the phone number where the SMS will be sent. Then, write the text to be sent. You may type it
from the keyboard, or use Copy and Paste to import text from other applications (mail, word processing,
etc)
For standard ASCII characters, the maximum length is the standard one for SMS, 160 characters.
The window Characters show you how may characters you have already typed, 91 out of 160 in the
above example.
Non-ASCII text
VoiBridge Liteallow you to send also non-ASCII characters, for alternate character sets such as Cyrillic,
Greek, Hebrew or Central European, but in this case the maximum length is only 70 characters, as
shown in the next example:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
To send the message, press the Send button located at the bottom!
You will see the message SMS is sending, please wait:
Then, in case of successful transmission, you will see the confirmation message on the screen:
.
When the message could not yet be sent, you will see a warning instead:
Use the Refresh or Reload button of your browser to get out of this page.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Long Messages
As mentioned, the maximum number of characters for SMS is 160 characters in case of ASCII messages
or 70 in case of non-ASCII characters. But you can send even longer text messages they will be broken
into several consecutive SMS, and sent one after another to the destination number.
The last box at the bottom of the Transmit SMS window shows you the number of SMS this is 1 for a
normal message, less than 160 characters long, or 4 in the example below:
This means that the long message, with 270 non-ASCII characters, will be sent out as a succession of
four SMS messages with a maximum length of 70 characters each!

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5.5 Group
This feature allows you to send group messages, that is text messages to several phone numbers, in
single operation.
At first, the SMS list is empty, use New to create a new record and Edit to modify it:
The first field is the name of the recipient of the message. This name is memningful for the human
operator only, VoiBridge Lite has no use for it. The next field is the destination phone number, and the last
one, the text of the SMS message to be transmitted:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
After you finished editing all fields in a row, the buttons at the bottom change, allowing you to Save the
edited messages or to abort the current editing with Cancel.
When you have finished editing all rows, the buttons change again, now you have the option to press
Send to transmit the messages, or Delete All to delete all the rows in a single operation.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Load CSV
One of the links at the bottom of is Load CSV file.
You can use it to load a CSV (comma separated
value) file previously created that holds the
names, telephone numbers and messages to be
sent.
Such a file may be created by using Microsoft

Excel or a simple text editor, such as Notepad.
The values for name, telephone number , and

text of the message must be separated by
commas.
Use the Browse button to look for the .csv or .txt file to be loaded:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Navigate in the folders of your computer, and select the .csv file of interest to you:
Then use the button Load to load the respective file into the VoiBridge Liteequipment.
You can review, edit or delete each row of the SMS list (every line corresponds to a SMS message), then
press Send to send out all the messages.
Of course, the transmission wont be simultaneous, VoiBridge Litesends out the messages one after
another, starting with the one located at the bottom.
Following a successful transmission, if you no longer need the messages, you can delete all the rows in
the SMS list by using the button Delete All located at the right, below the SMS list.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Group sending of a common message

A variant of the group SMS operation is when you need to send a single message to several recipients
(phone numbers). This is a particular case, when the CSV file contains only names and telephone
numbers, the text filed is empty.
To send out the same text message to several destinations, load the CSV file with the corresponding
numbers:
You will see a SMS list with names and corresponding telephone numbers, but without any text for the
SMS message to be sent out:
Now use the link Edit All located at the bottom right, to edit all the SMS Text fields at once:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
In this window, you can either enter the text by typing, or paste it from a location where you copy the text
of interest:
Use Save All button to save this text into all the rows of the SMS list:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
After a final review, where you can edit or delete the existing rows, or add a new one, now you can start
the process of transmitting the common message to all the destination numbers by simply pressing the
Send button!

VoiBridge Lite SMS
6.5.6 Inbox
Here you can see the SMS messages received over the mobile modules of the VoiBridge Liteequipment.
Click the Read SMS button at the bottom to refresh the list of messages.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Date: shows not only the date, but also the time when the message has been sent, up to seconds. Also,
the time zone, such as GMT+2 in case of Bucharest. Remember, this is not the time when the SMS was
received by VoiBridge-I, but rather when it has been transmitted, usually set by the mobile carrier.
Number: phone number that has sent the SMS.
Text: the text of the message.
You can Delete or Save each of the received SMSs. These messages are stored in the volatile memory of
the equipment, so if one SMS is of high interest, it should be save onto your computer, because it will be
lost each time VoiBridge Liteis re-booted.
Warning!
The received messages are shown in this
page only when the feature SMS to E-mail
is disabled.
If it is enabled, the received SMS are sent
out as e-mail, and then erased, so you wont
be able to see them in the Receive list!
The last column, the field Action, allows you to individually delete or save
the SMS messages.
Use Save to save the respective SMS in a folder of your choice, in format
csv.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
The default name of the file to be saved is date_time_index.csv. From the example above:
- the date 100911 means 2010, Nov 9th;
- the format for the time is hhmmss;
- 006 is a pseudo-random index, which allows you to save all messages, even those received at the
same time, without bothering to rename them.
Afterwards, you can go to the respective folder and open up the saved SMS.

VoiBridge Lite SMS
The Comma Separated Values format is understood by many applications, for instance if you have
Office applications installed, it will be opened up as an excel spreadsheet:
You dont need to have the office-compatible applications installed, since the CSV files can be read by all
text editors:
6.5.7 Outbox
Similar to the Outbox folder of an e-mail application, shows the SMS messages that must be sent out via
VoiBridge-I, and their current state:

VoiBridge Lite SMS
Press the button View SMS to see all the text messages which are in the Outbox:
Since the messages are sent out starting with the one at the bottom, it is normal that SMS 2 has already
been successfully sent, hence the message OK, while SMS 1 is still waiting to be transmitted.
In the next example, while sending out a group message (same text sent towards three recipients), the
SMS has been successfully sent to recipients 2 and 3, while 1 must still wait his message is in the
process of being transmitted:
Finally, all the recipients in the list get their common message, so they confirm reception and they show
up in the Outbox list with the status OK:
To the extreme right of the screen, he field Action allows you to Delete or Resend every SMS message
that shows up in the Transmitted SMSs list.
In the Outbox of an e-mail client, the e-mail messages are deleted after being successfully transmitted.
Here on VoiBridge-I, the sent messages are kept, with the status OK, until the next transmission occurs.
Then they are automatically deleted, to make room for the current messages which are waiting to be sent
out via SMS service.

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
6.6 VoIP
Allows one to configure the settings for Voice over IP aspect of the calls, related to the codecs used
transmission of DTMF signaling, Voice settings, number of RTP ports used and respectively local port
used for SIP.
Currently there are five sub-pages of settings, respectively Codec, DTMF, Voice, RTP and SIP:

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
6.6.1 Codec Settings

Settings for the codecs used by the Voice over IP calls:
For each of the codecs used, you may set up its priority, and the duration of the corresponding RTP
packets.
Codec priority
VoiBridge Lite supports several audio codecs, currently
G.711 (both A-law and u-law), 723 and 729. There are four
boxes, with decreasing priorities, from 1 down to 4. For
each one, one may assign a codec, or select none.
Generally one should enter the codec G.711 on the first
place, either with A-Law for Europe or u-law for North
America, followed by G.729. G.711 provides good voice
quality and works well with in-band DTMF.
If the IP-PBX or the SIP-telephones that will be connected with VoiBridge Litemake use of different
codecs, one should set the Codec Propriety field accordingly.
RTP Packet Length
It lets you establish the value for packetization time (in milliseconds) for
each codec. It is usually set to 20, but it may be as long as 30 msec or as
short as 5 msec. Increasing the packetization time reduces the
packetization overhead, but increases the latency.
Click Save to save the changes, Cancel to abort, or Default to return to the default settings in the Codecs
page.

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
6.6.2 DTMF Settings

Settings for sending out DTMF in VoIP calls:
This configuration area establishes the means of sending out DTMF into the VoIP calls. There are three
methods available, which may be used at the same time. Transmission of DTMF signaling can be done in
band, out of band in RTP packets, or sending out INFO messages (as digital telephone-events).
Under the SIP protocol, the INFO method would be used for carrying of mid-call signaling information
along the session signaling path (for example to send the DTMF digits generated during a SIP session).
Check the box SIP Info for this way of transmitting DTMF.
When checking this RFC 2833 options, also complete the next Parameters fields to the right
- payload type for DTMF in RTP (according to RFC 2833)
- redundancy payload type
- redundancy scheme: either IETF or AAL2.
When you use H323 protocol for VoIP instead of SIP, you can select the option H.245 alphanumeric.
The ITU-T H.245 standard specifies several ways of sending out DTMF. Tones are sent out over the
H.245 signaling channel, rather than in-band with voice traffic via RTP channel.
Topex has implemented the alphanumeric version of the H.245 signal protocol for better compatibility - all
H.323 version 2 compliant systems are required to support the "h245-alphanumeric" method, while the
support for the "h245-signal" method only optional.
6.6.3 Voice Settings

Adjust the voice parameters on the VoIP side of the equipment - gain (amplification), echo cancellation
and respectively VAD:

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
Gain
In the same way as for the mobile modules, but for the Voice over IP
section, here you can adjust the audio gain for reception and transmission.
Choose Rx or Tx, and form the drop list, select the amplification you want,
from zero dB down to -12 db, in 3 dB increments.
Definition of RX and TX
In this page for VoIP voice Settings, RX is the voice path going out from VoIP towards the mobile network,
while TX is the reciprocal voice path, which comes from the mobile network towards VoIP. The meaning of
Tx and respectively Rx are reversed compared to the page Mobile Settings!

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
Echo
In telephony, echo cancellation means reducing or removing echo from a voice communication in order
to improve voice quality of the calls.
Why the Echo Canceller of VoIBridgeI4 may be enabled or disabled:

Echo cancellation may be too powerful, or incorrectly applied. In echo cancellation, complex algorithmic
procedures are used for computing models of speech. The actual format of the prediction of echoes must
be learned by the echo canceller in a process known as adaptation. You must ensure that only one unit in
the voice chain performs echo cancellation. If two echo-cancellation systems work in the same voice path,
negative effects may arise, such as speech cutting in and out in both directions, and even increased
echoes!
Voice VAD
Enables or disables the "Voice Activity Detection", by default this feature is disabled.
Typical voice conversations can contain up to 35 to 50 percent silence.

On VoIP networks, both conversation and silence is packetized. If VAD is enabled, the equipment sends
out RTP packets only when voice is detected, thus decreasing bandwidth by 30-50 %. This way the
VoiBridge Litewill send voice packets only when it has voice input. When it detects silence on RTP, it will
send a silence packet to the other side which uses less bandwidth and allows to be interpreted for
generating comfort noise. This Comfort noise is locally generated during the time than no voice RTP
packets are sent. Without the comfort noise, the customer will hear only silence on the line, so he may
believe that the connection is broken!
VAD may be used advantageously together with echo cancellation - by preventing echo from traveling
across a network, the capacity achieved through silence suppression is increased.

VoiBridge Lite VoIP
6.6.4. RTP Settings

Settings for the ports used for RTP:
You can set up the number of the fist port used for RTP, and the number of ports.
With the settings shown above, ports 30.000 and 30.001 will be used for VoIP traffic.
6.6.5. SIP Settings

Settings for the local port used for SIP.
By default, the Local SIP Port is the usual one, number 5060, but you can change this value, according
to the specifications of your VoIP system. Of course, this local port number must correspond to the port
used for SIP by the correspondent (remote) equipment connected to VoIBridgeI4 IP, which is the SIP
phone exchange.

VoiBridge Lite CALL CONTROL
6.7 CALL CONTROL

Establishes the settings related to the telephone exchange features of the VoiBridge I4-GSM ,
which manages all the calls.
This application runs on the VoiBridge Liteequipment and performs all the tasks of call-control
(management, access, routing, logs and so on).

6.7.1. Status
Displays the current state of the ports of the embedded phone exchange as well as the states of the calls
that are routed through VoIBridgeI4 IP:
There are two sections, PBX Ports and respectively Calls.

In the stand-by state, both ports are free and no info about calls is displayed, since there are currently no
conversations going through the VoiBridge I4-GSM .
PBX ports
Shows the state of the four mobile (GSM) interfaces of the

equipment, from the point of view of the call control application.
They may be FREE (available), BLOCK (blocked for calls) BUSY
(in a call) or N/A (not available).
Note: The display BLOCK means that NOW the respective

Mobile interface is not available, but it may have several different
reasons:

The BLOCK-ed module is not operational, perhaps it does not have a good SIM, or simply the device has
been rebooted and the respective module is in the initialization or searching phase, and after a delay it
may become again available. But the interfaces with state N/A are really not available, because they have
been disabled form the Web interface (MOBILE>Settings):
Category fields reserved for further development.
Currently, only a few bits of these categories are used.

Thus, in category 1 the figures 019f indicates a mobile
interface, while in category 2 000 shows a local SIM and
020 indicates a remote SIM (the respective interface
works with a SIM Server).
Calls
Displays info about the calls routed through the VoiBridge I4-GSM .
See below an example about a call that gets out via the GSM module mobile2:

The example above shows a single VoIP call coming from a Soft-phone application running on
computer with the IP address 192.168.144.151 in the local network and getting out of the
VoiBridge Litethrough the GSM interface Mobile2. The mobile number called is 0724 , while the
SIP user who calls in bogdan.
Ports 32, 33, 64 and 65 are the Mobile ports, while 261, 262 are VoIP ports
Direction the calls may belong to one of the directions MYVOIP, SIP, mobile1 mobile4,
Type type of the call, it may be in for incoming or out for outgoing.
State current status of the call, alerting, proceed or connected
Protocol SIP or H323 for VoIP, CAS for the mobile networks, or Unknown
ANI identity of the calling party, received by the SIP user. Generally, Automatic Number
Identification is a service that provides the receiver of a telephone call with the number of the
calling phone.
DNIS destination number, dialed by the SIP user. Dialed number identification service, also
used for the routing of calls based upon the phone number of the destination. In this example,
283is a local extension, where the incoming call has been routed.
Ips IP address used for Signaling, SIP, such as 192.168.244.167 in the above example.
Iprtps IP address for RTP may be the same as the signaling address, or it may be two different
addresses. There are examples of both cases.
Duration - total duration of the call, in seconds, starting from the moment the called party
answers.
SID Session ID, each session for every call has a unique ID

In the following PBX Status example, a call from 0727 is getting in through the cellular interface Mobile
1 and goes out as an SIP call through VoIP port 261. Note that in this case the IP destination addresses
for signaling and RTP are different! The SIP call goes to the extension 241 of the IP PBX.
Starting one a half minute later, another mobile call comes in via cellular interface Mobile 2 from the
mobile number 0724 and goes out as an SIP call, via VoIP port 262, to the extension 284.
Now both mobile interfaces and both SIP ports of the VoiBridge Liteare busy.
Next the user sees a cellular call routed with DISA function instead of Target number, as was done
previously.
A single incoming call gets in through interface Mobile 1, from the phone number 07245.
It is routed as an intermediate (internal) call with protocol unknown on port 262 and gets out as an SIP
call on port 261 to the extension that is dialed in DISA mode.
Notice that the identity of the caller, ANI, which is here the cellular number, is transmitted all along:

In the next example, the call comes in through the GSM module Mobile 2 and the protocol used by the
VoIP system is H323:
6.7.2. Settings
Here you can configure the settings for the IP phone exchange that will work with the VoIBridge I
and also the settings used for NAT traversal.
Select the parameters for the IP phone exchange

where the Topex VoIP-4-mobile interface is
connected: IP address, then the port and protocol to
be used.
Here you set up the protocol to be used for VoIP and the
corresponding port number. By default the port used for SIP
protocol is the standard 5060, but the user may change this value
if the SIP PBX operates differently.
Likewise, when you select H323 protocol instead of SIP, the

default port number is 1720, but you can change this setting.
Traversal of NAT:
The usage of Network Address Translation was imposed by the limited address space of IPv4.

With NAT, multiple computers on a LAN
could share a single public IP address for
accessing the Internet. But the use of NAT
breaks end-to-end connectivity, which
must be restored.
The techniques for NAT traversal do precisely this, allow communication in client-to-client
networking applications, especially peer-to-peer and Voice-over-IP as in the case of VoIBridgeI4.
When you need to use NAT traversal, set it to Enabled and fill in the corresponding public IP
address.
6.7.3. Access In
Clears access into the VoiBridge Litegateway this setting establishes the list of IP addresses
and ranges from where access is allowed.

Enter the network or host address, then for the Netmask, select it from
the drop list which shows up.
Here also, you can create new records, edit and change them, and
individually enable or disable each line.
Notes:
- the address of the PBX that you have entered in CALL CONTROL>Settings>PBX Settings is
automatically added into the list Access In.
So, even if you dont perform any other settings, VoiBridge Litewill still be able to talk to the
respective IP PBX;
- the first line of the Access In list is set by default to the local network: 192.168.0.0, with net mask
16, meaning that any user with an address type 192.168.xxx.yyy will have access to VoIBridgeI4;
- the second line refers another local network, from a different class, with netmask 4, much wider .
- the third line refers to an external, public address, where is located a device (such as SJ Phone)
that is allowed to call VoIBridgeI4 IP.
Usually, this would be single, actual IP address, not a range of addresses, thus its corresponding
netmask will be 32 , the most restrictive.
Examples:
An incorrect setting of the netmarsk to 24 lets only the final
group of figures available for connection :
As consequence, the incoming call wont be able to connect, no interface is chosen, and you can see as
reason for ending the call ACL_REJECT:
This ACL_REJECT is the abbreviation for Access list reject, and it means that the source of call has not
been added into your 'access in" table. When you set the correct value for the Netmask (16), the incoming
call will be accepted, and a normal phone conversation may take place:

6.7.4 Incoming calls
Settings for the incoming calls, that means calls which come in through the mobile interfaces of the
equipment:
Here there are only four rows that can be edited they cannot be deleted or more rows added to
the Incoming rules table. Each row sets the rules for one GSM module interfaces Mobile 1 to Mobile 4:
They define the rules for calls coming in from the mobile networks.
For each of the four mobile interfaces one can choose Enable to activate it, then select the type (Like),
Mode of routing (action to be taken) and Target (destination).
First click Edit to start editing the specific row, then Exit to get out or More to reach additional settings,
and finally Save the settings:
Mode how the incoming call will be routed.

Target directly to the target, a local extension. When you select this, you
must also complete the field Target.
DCR use Dynamic Call Routing (see explanation further on).
DISA if you choose DISA operation, the value in the field Target doesnt
matter any longer, the caller will receive a DISA tone allowing him to dial the
number of the local extension he wants to reach. See below the routing of
such a call, coming in through interface Mobile1 and being connected to
destination by means of DISA dialing.

Example of a DISA call.
The call getting in through mobile1 interface gets assigned a Direction mobile1_disa. It receives DISA
tone, and gets on as a SIP call with the same ANI as the initial call.
Routing an incoming call with DISA makes use of an intermediate call with unknown protocol, which is
internal to the equipment:
6.7.5 Definition of DCR
Dynamic call routing is the process of automatically re-routing a call based on specific criteria, instead of
using a static, pre-defined routing table.
The feature Dynamic Call routing was designed primary to fix the ID issue that arises for calls made
through mobile gateways; from your desk, you ring someone in the filed, but this mobile user cannot call
you back! From First, the called party cannot see the real phone number (extension) of the calling party;
instead he just sees the number of the SIM card for the GSM module used. If the call is not accepted, or
the called party was busy, when the called party tries to ring back to the number that shows up in missed
calls, he will reach only the respective GSM module of the VoiBridge Litegateway and he cannot be
connected to the PBX or to the human operator. He does not have information about the real number of
the calling party, he does not know from what local extension he was called.
To overcome this problem, outgoing calls made through the mobile modules of the VoIBridgeI4 are stored
in the Dynamic CLIP table as they are made. When the destination rings back, he will be connected
automatically to the source of the call. See below an example:
At 14:00:44, the extension 246 rings, via interface mobile3, the phone number 072xxxxxxx row 6 is an
outgoing call.
The, at 14:01:55, the user in the field, with phone number 072xxxxxxx calls back.
Row 7 shows an incoming call. His call is automatically connected to the extension 246, who was the
source of the first call. But in the field DNIS you see only a zero, not the value 246. Why?
Because it is a dynamic list! The value of the destination is stored only temporary, then it is deleted or
replaced with a new value. This way, when the user in the field calls back the first time, he will be
connected to the source extension, but when he calls back a second time or later, this value has been
erased, so now he will be connected to the extension that was specified in the filed Target!
Also, when the mobile user out in the field has not yet been called by anybody from VoiBridge-I, the DCR
feature has not value to operate upon, so when he rings, the remote mobile user will be connected to the
extension you have set in the field Target.

6.7.6 Target, Ignore, Limit
Target when you dont use DISA or DCR, but select the default Target mode, you
must complete the destination of the call.
Type here the number of the local extension where the calls will be routed which are
coming in through the respective Mobile interface ( such as 283, 284 etc in the
examples used).
Additional settings for Incoming calls
Ignore
You may set VoIBridgeI4 to ignore any number of digits out of the numbering
(Caller ID) coming in through each mobile module.
From the drop list, select the number of digits to be ignored, from 00 (no digits are
ignored) up to 15 .
The ignoring option is used for different methods of routing the calls using
additional (local use only) prefixes.
Limit
You may impose a time limit upon individual calls made
over each mobile module.
Setting limit to 1599 for example means that no call can
have a duration of 1600 seconds the calls will be
disconnected when they reach 1599 seconds.
6.7.7 More
When you are editing one of the Incoming call rows, the last field, Action, provides
you with the options Exist, to get out, or More, to access further parameters.
Click the link More to go to the next window for incoming settings, as shown below:

Incoming Mode how the call will be treated, either like a Trunk or as a
SIP user. When you select User instead of the default trunk, for
incoming calls from the GSM network the SIP call towards the IP PBX
will be achieved as a declared SIP User.
This way you can register the four mobile interfaces as extensions of the IP PBX, so incoming mobile
calls will be treated as extensions of the VoIP phone exchange.
For this , you must complete also the next two fields, the User name
and the corresponding Password for the SIP Users:
Now, in the PBX, you can receive incoming calls as a user only.
Applications include:
- you have a subscription to a VoIP provider, where you must be User. With this feature, you can
register incoming mobile calls as SIP Users to the respective provider!
- Since the mobile number has assigned a local SIP User, it will benefit from all of the advanced
services provided by the IP-PBX (services that were intended for the local SIP Users).
6.7.8 How Incoming calls are treated

Every incoming call is defined by a Caller ID.
Using this ID, VoiBridge I first looks for routing rules in REGISTER>Register Mobiles and respectively
LOCAL USERS>Mobile users.
When the phone number of the incoming call is not found in these two tables, the rules established here,
in Incoming calls will be applied!
The same applies for the case when the incoming call does not show Caller ID (it has CLIR activated) -
the rules established in CALL CONTROL>Incoming calls will be applied!
6.7.9 Outgoing calls

Establishes the rules for outgoing calls, which are calls coming from SIP or H323 and directed to mobile
networks:
One can define a table with several rules for calls coming in from VoIP and going out through the mobile
interfaces.
The program analyses the numbering (the prefix) of the phone number called and routes the calls
accordingly through one of the four mobile interfaces.

If one of the mobile ports is disabled, the respective GSM module will NOT be used for outgoing calls.
Use the New button to create a new rule, Edit to fill the parameters for it, Exit to get out of the respective
row, and Save to save the rules created.
The button Del is to erase an existing rule from the table.
Each rule may be individually Enabled or Disabled. This way, you can set up and save several outgoing
rules , for different situations, but enable only some of them, according to the actual situation.
Examples:
Rules 2 and 3 demonstrate prefix routing. When a call has the prefix 077, it will go out through the
interface Mobile1, if it has the prefix 076, it will go out through the interface Mobile2, and so on.
Rule number 6 states that outgoing calls with the prefix 079 will be routed via interface none,
meaning they will be rejected.
The prefix 0ff means zero followed by two digits (no matter which ones), one must use this format
for compatibility all the prefixes in the table must have the same number of digits.
The value any in the field Interface means that the respective call can be routed via any of the four
modules.
Rules 4 and 5 are examples of another kind of call routing forced assignment.
Suppose you need to output some calls, no matter their destination numbers, only through module 3,
which connects to a certain mobile carrier. Then, the call must dial a 1 at the beginning of the destination
phone number. This first digit will be ignored, but VoiBridge will know that it must route all calls starting
with an one via module 3. Likewise, to get a call out via Module 4, you should dial a 2 before the real
telephone number. The digit two will be stripped out of the destination number, but VoiBridge will know
that it must route the respective calls through Module 4, no matter their prefix.

Ignore and Limit
The field Ignore and respectively Limit have exactly the same significance as for the incoming calls
You can set the device to ignore the first 00 15 digits out of the phone number.
This is to be used together with special rules for routing of the outgoing calls for
instance, the local subscribers must dial a 6 to get access to the public telephony
networks, and the pbx application must be told to ignore the first digit of the telephone
number.
You can establish a time limit (in seconds) for the duration of outgoing calls,
such as 3200 seconds in this example.
Such limitation is especially useful when, following a phone conversation, the
local subscriber does not hung up, and the call could remain connected,
unnecessary generating a very high phone bill for the respective SIM.

6.7.10. PBX Query

Allows sending of text commands to the phone exchange application which runs on the VoiBridge Lite
equipment.
When you press Execute, the PBX application executes the command and displays the answer below, as
shown in these examples:
- view all ports:
Or:
- view ports:
Or:

The command help shows you all available commands:

6.7.10 Log Settings

Here one can set up for each section of the log how much information will be stored.
Currently, the sections available
for the log are:
Log Output,
Voice over IP (a single item),
SIP
and respectively PBX (call
control) with many selectable
items.
Each section has several items, for which you can choose the degree of details that will be stored in the
log of the Call Control application.

Log Output (by default both options are disabled)
Files when you enable this, the logging information is also sent to output
files in the Out directory of the files stem. This can be done only on
VoiBridge Liteequipments that are fitted with additional non-volatile
storage (internal USB stick or external USB storage devices).
Syslog when you enable this, the logging information is sent to the
Syslog, where you can see and save it.
When Files is
enabled, the log
files created will
be available for
analysis in the
out directory of
the filesystem,
where they are
permanently
stored:
Log settings
In each section there are one or several items, and for each of these items
you may choose the level of details of the log form the drop list that shows
up: None, Error, Info, Warning, Debug, Devel, Verbose and so on.
Some items have only on/off setting you may
only enable or disable logging, but fir other you
can choose exactly the level of details recorded
into the log of the VoiBridge Liteequipment.
None or Disable means no log at all is created for the respective
element, Error is the minimal level (only errors will be logged), while
Devel is the maximum details setting everything is logged, for the
usage of developers.
These settings generate correspondingly more or less detailed log files, resulting in a minimal system log:
or in a the very detailed one, as shown next:

6.7.11 Parameters
You can enter several parameters for the Call Control application.
In the example above, the maximum number of failures for registration of SIP users has been set to 12.

VoiBridge Lite CDR
6.8 CDR
Select this item from the menu to set up, view, save or delete the CDR records
The corresponding sub-pages are CDR Status, CDR settings and respectively Call Detail Record File, to
View, Delete or save the files holding CDR information.
The CDR feature is intended mainly for the billing of the calls, but it may also be used for debugging.
6.8.1CDR Status
Shows the state of Call detail Records files, it may be Disabled or Enabled:
In this example, the feature is enabled.
6.8.2Call Detail Records Settings

Settings for CDR include Enable / Disable and filtering:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
Enables the storage of CDR files.

By default, it is set to Disabled the CDR files are not saved!
The mode of saving the CDR files RAW (full content, not formatted) or
Filtered (formatted and filtered). Filtrated means that only the most
important information is stored /displayed, and the head of the table is a
line with the titles (meaning) of the columns (direction, interface, time,
duration, ANI, and so on).
Filtered:
or
RAW:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
In raw mode, all calls-related information from the pbx application is saved.
There is no header / explanation, and the volume of information is much higher:
TJI,00064,0768405769,,24-11-10,11:18:36,000000,00000,00,00264,ATOUT, 41,,
34,0000,mobile3,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,192.168.244.167,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,18d3a784, 0, 0,
4,SIP,CAS,SIP, 18, 0, 0,,0768405769,246,0768405769,246, 0, 0, 2, 15
TJI,00261,246,0724545419,24-11-10,12:37:17,065535,212,51,24-11-
10,13:07:25,000000,00000,ff,65535,NOROUTE, 3,, 1,0000,MYVOIP,192.168.244.167,5060
,192.168.244.168,30062,,0 ,,0 ,7aed0e6c, 0, 0, 0,,SIP,, -1, 0, 0,,,,212,, 0, 0, 8,65535
TJI,00261,246,0724545419,24-11-10,14:21:17,000009,00000,00,00064,BOK, 16,226012053932855,
11,ec90,MYVOIP,192.168.244.167,5060 ,192.168.244.168,30060,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,18c44fa6, 0,
0, 0,mobile3,SIP,CAS, 18, 20, 0,,246,0724545419,246,0724545419, 0, 0, 8, 2
TJI,00262,246,0724545419,24-11-10,10:22:58,000016,00000,00,00032,BOK, 16,226012051548648,
11,ebf1,MYVOIP,192.168.244.167,5060 ,192.168.244.168,30004,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,49f74208, 0,
0, 0,mobile1,SIP,CAS, 18, 20, 0,,246,0724545419,246,0724545419, 0, 0, 8, 0
SJI,00064,,,24-11-10,14:48:26,000003,00000,00,00064,AOK, 16,226012053932855,
1,ebf1,mobile3,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,192.168.173.2,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,46cf35b6, 0, 0, 0,,CAS,,255,
0, 0,,,,,, 0, 0, 2,65535
TJI,00064,0214083803,,24-11-10,14:49:07,000000,00000,00,00261,ATOUT, 41,,
25,0000,mobile3,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,192.168.244.167,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,227f26b0, 0, 0,
4,SIP,CAS,SIP, 18, 0, 0,,0214083803,246,0214083803,246, 0, 0, 2, 15
TJI,00032,0214083800,,24-11-10,14:51:47,000000,00000,00,00263,BTOUT, 41,,
1,0000,mobile1,0.0.0.0,0 ,0.0.0.0,0 ,192.168.244.167,0 ,0.0.0.0,0
This is useful when CDR files are further used for automatic processing, another application takes over
these files and computes the charges based upon this information.
6.8.3CDR Files
This table lists all files, the current one being on top, while the oldest file stored on VoiBridge Liteis
located at the bottom. The billing files created by the program running on the equipment include all
the information required for detailed billing (taxation) of the calls.

VoiBridge Lite CDR
The CDR files are named date.txt , where the date is in format DD-MM-YY 9one file is generated
each day). These billing files are in coma-delimited text format (csv) and they are stored in the OUT
sub- directory of the filesystem. Their format and content depends upon the option you have
selected, RAW or Filtrated.
From this list you may select a date.tax file, such as 23-11-10.tax, and then choose for it the action to be
performed: View it, Delete it, or Save it intro your computer.

VoiBridge Lite CDR
6.8.4View CDR Files
View: displays the CDR file you selected, with the records starting with the oldest in top and going
downwards, as shown in the next examples:
Or a longer CDR file:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
Here are shown the most important fields of the CDR files:
Direction: incoming or outgoing;

Interface: mobile interface used by the call, from mobile1 up to from mobile4;
Date: in DD-MM-YY format;

Time: in HH-MM-SS format;
Call duration: duration of the call, in seconds;
ANI: Automatic Number Identification = Calling Party, maximum 32 digits. Examples: 246 for a local
extension, 0768xxxxxx for a mobile number or 0214999999 for a fixed telephony number;
DNIS: Dialed Number Identification Service = Called party. Maximum 32 digits. Examples: 510 for a local
extension or 0729999999 for a mobile phone number;
Remote signaling IP and Remote signaling port - Filled only for VoIP (SIP or H323 calls). The remote IP
address used for signaling , such as 192.168.244.167 or 192.168.173.2 (the address of the VoiBridge
Litegateway) and corresponding port, such as 5060;
End Cause: A string explaining the type of Call release. This string tells the party which has hung up, A or
B, and the explanation for ending the call (normal release, inexistent number, error, rejected, no route,
timeout etc.) These are proprietary causes of the Topex phone exchange application, centrala, not
standard international codes. See below a list of available release causes:
AOK - Call connected and disconnected by calling party
BOK - Call connected and disconnected by called party
OK - Call connected and disconnected by centrala
ARELS - Call released before connect by calling party before connect
BRELS - Call released before connect by called party before connect
AINEX - Call released before connect by calling party with cause 1 (inex)
BINEX - Call released before connect by called party with cause 1 (inex)
ACONG - Call released before connect by calling party with cause 34 (congestion)
BCONG - Call released before connect by called party with cause 34 (congestion)
ASERR - Call released before connect by calling party with cause 111 (protocol error)
BSERR - Call released before connect by called party with cause 111 (protocol error)
ANOANS - Call released before connect by calling party with cause 19 (no answer)
BNOANS - Call released before connect by called party with cause 1trc9 (no answer)
ABUSY - Call released before connect by calling party with cause 17 (user busy)
BBUSY - Call released before connect by called party with cause 17 (user busy)
ATOUT - Timeout on calling party leg; call not connected
BTOUT - Timeout on called party leg; call not connected
ERRAUTH - Authentication error; used on prepaid
NOCREDIT - No credit available; used on prepaid
FINCRED - Credit finished; used on prepaid
AVMAIL - Call connected to calling party voice mail
BVMAIL - Call connected to called party voice mail
NOVOIPCH - No VoIP channel available (VoIP congestion)
CODECERR - Codec error; codec mismatch between calling and called party
NOLICENCE - License expired
ACLREJECT - Access list reject; source of call is not added in access in table
ANI_RESTRICTED - ANI is not allowed to complete the call
DNIS_RESTRICTED - DNIS is not allowed to complete the call

VoiBridge Lite CDR
NORTPPROC - No RTP pool process available
MOREDIG - Need more digits in order to take a routing decision
RELEASE - Call released by centrala
ENDOK - Call connected and disconnected by centrala
SERR - Signaling error, call released by centrala before connect
INEX - DNIS does not exist
A_CONGRES -
NOPRICE - No price found; Call released by centrala
ENDCONG - Congestion; Call released by centrala
NOROUTE - No route found
DNIS REJECTED - Call rejected (not allowed) by centrala
REDIRECTED - Call redirected by centrala
REROUTED - Call rerouted on other route
TIMEOUT - Centrala internal timeout; call not connected
PRICE_ERROR - Error in definition of billing price
BREDIRECT - Call redirected by called party
PREPAID_NOT_FOUND - Prepaid user not found
ACCT_DISABLED - Account is disabled
USER_OFFLINE - SIP user is offline
CONTACT_ERROR - Contact checking error; SIP user is not registered and is trying to make
calls, but is not allowed on current configuration, see check_invite_contact line from Sip pbx.cfg
CLASS_DISABLED - Incoming class assigned to the call is disabled
INVALID_CLASSID - Incoming class id assigned to the call is invalid
CLASS_RESTRICT - Incoming class restricted due to max time, max cost, max calls, max rate
limits
KILLED - Call killed before connect; Call can be killed from telnet see kill all calls or kill call from
Telnet commands Call can also be killed due to some card errors or physical layer alarms (ex LIS,
RJA, AIS)
OK_KILLED - Connected call killed; see the above cases
OK_SERR - Connected call released due to some signaling errors.
Action the last column of the CDR table is called Action, you can
click the option More to display more information. This gives you
access to the full information of the call detail records file, as you can
see in the next examples.

VoiBridge Lite CDR

VoiBridge Lite CDR
The volume of data is very large, it is not possible to see all these in a table, as previous, this is why they
are displayed one record per page.
The output of the centrala pbx application to the CDR files does include all the following fields:
1 Type
2 Source transcoding port
3 Incoming ANI
4 Incoming DNIS
5 Date
6 Time
7 Call duration
8 Billing units
9 SIM number
10 Destination transcoding port
11 End cause
12 End code
13 IMSI
14 Call selection time
15 GSM CELL
16 Incoming class name
17 Source signaling IP
18 Source signaling port
19 Source RTP IP
20 Source RTP port
21 Destination signaling IP
22 Destination signaling port
23 Destination RTP IP
24 Destination RTP port
25 Call session id
26 Packet loss
27 Jitter
28 Incoming client id
29 Outgoing class name
30 Incoming protocol
31 Outgoing protocol
32 Codec
33 Packetization time
34 Outgoing client id
35 Gateway name
36 Outgoing ANI
37 Outgoing DNIS
38 Original ANI
39 Connected DNIS
40 Incoming billing profile id
41 Outgoing billing profile id
42 Incoming class id
43 Outgoing class id
44 Billing DNIS
45 Incoming price
46 Incoming currency
47 Call type
48 Incoming ANI Nature of Address Indicator
49 Incoming DNIS Nature of Address Indicator
50 Outgoing ANI Nature of Address Indicator
51 Outgoing DNIS Nature of Address Indicator
52 Centrex group
53 Outgoing price
54 Outgoing currency

VoiBridge Lite CDR
End Cause is the proprietary (specific to Topex)string for the release cause, while End Code are the
standard international ISDN Cause Codes (ERROR Codes) according to Q850 [Q931] :
Code Cause
0 Valid cause code not yet received
1 Unallocated (unassigned) number
2 No route to specified transit network (WAN)
3 No route to destination
4 send special information tone
5 misdialed trunk prefix.
6 Channel unacceptable
7 Call awarded and being delivered in an established channel
8 Prefix 0 dialed but not allowed
------------------------------------------------------------------ and so on

VoiBridge Lite CDR
To go back from this More view you can either:
1. Use the link Back on top of the window, to go back to the list of records (CDR View);
2. Press the button List Files located at the bottom of the window;
to go back to the list of CDR files:
Del use Delete to permanently

erase a CDR file that you no longer
need.
The CDR file for September 12 has been

deleted, now the list contains only the
current file, of November 25:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
Finally, the button Save is

used to save the whole of the
taxation file, from the beginning
up to the latest entry, to your
computer.
The CDR file will be stored on
the PC, so later it can be
viewed even when the TOPEX
VoiBridge Litegateway
equipment is no longer
connected!
You ca change the default DD-MM-YY name for the CDR file , as you wish:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
Later, you may go to the respective subfolder, choose the file you want from the list of MS Office
Excel CSV File:
and open it for view-ing, either with a spreadsheet utility:
(CDR file saved RAW)
CDR file save Filtrated and formatted)

or with the Notepad text editor:

VoiBridge Lite CDR
CDR file saved Filtrated and formatted)
CDR file saved RAW, with all information and no formatting)

VoiBridge Lite REGISTER
6.9 REGISTER
Settings for the registration service lets you register to VoiBridge Litedifferent local or remote users:
There are two section, the first one just shows the status.
6.9.1 Status
Shows the state of the registered users:
There are shown all attempts at registration to the IP PBX (user and password) and their state: either
successfully registered (OK) or failed.

VoiBridge Lite REGISTER
6.9.2 Settings
Here you can set general parameters for registration.

These are Expire Time, time interval after which the registration is repeated, and NAT refresh, the
duration while the NAT service remains open after a data packet is sent from VoiBridge-Ito the remote
PBX, to allow the PBX to call back the VoiBridge Lite equipment.
Both values are expressed in seconds.

VoiBridge Lite LOCAL USERS
6.10 LOCAL USERS
Allows you to define local users of the VoIBridgeI4-SSM device, respectively SIP users and Mobile users.
6.9.1 Local Users Status
Shows the state of the currently registered users, such as 5000 at the IP address of 192.168.1.179 on
port 5060.

6.9.2 Local Users Settings

General settings for the local users.
General settings for the local users.
Status Enable or Disable.

If the local users are not Enabled, they will register, but they wont be able to be called.
Prefix a prefix that allows calls to be sent to the local users.

All SIP users must start with this prefix.
It must be different form the prefix used by the IP PBX.
For instance, when the extensions of the IP PBX are local numbers starting with 2 or 3 (201, 350 etc), the
prefix for SIP local users should be 5. Everything that does NOT begin with the digit 5, will be sent to
the PBX. Depending upon the actual settings of the PBX, a single digit may be enough, or you must
specify several, such as 50
6.9.3 Local Users Definition
Register the SIP Users who will be able to use the VoiBridge Lite equipment for calls.

The list is empty at first -

click the button New to
create a new (empty) record.
Then use Edit to enter the
data for the specific SIP
user:
Use Exit to leave the current line , then Save to save the latest settings.
For each user, fill in the local extension number, such as 502, and the corresponding password, used
together with SIP username for SIP user registration.
The settings for expiration tine and NAT refresh are global (for all users), and they have been.
Notice that each entry in the list of registered SIP users may be individually enabled or disabled, so there
can be a list with several users, out of which only some are currently enabled (active).
6.9.4 Mobile Users Definition

Define the local Mobile users. Registers some mobile phone numbers as user, which may also be
considered as IP phones registered to the IP-phone exchange.
At first, the list is empty.
You can create New entries, edit them,

and You can individually Enable or
Disable each entry in this Mobile user
table.
Enter the mobile phone number and associate it

with one of the mobile interfaces, or leave it to
any, for use with any mobile modules.

Then select the Mode, which describes how the incoming call
from the respective mobile number will be treated by
VoIBridgeI4 IP. There are two groups of three options, direct
(straightforward) and with call-back. For each of these, you
have three choices:
Target the call is routed to the target, such as the number of
a local extension, 289.
DCR Dynamic Call Routing. Instead of a static routing table,
dynamic routing is used, when a mobile user rings, he will be
automatically connected to the extension that has called him
previously!
DISA the caller receives DISA tone, so he can dial the
number of the destination using DTMF. The same options are
also available with CBK (call-back) function.
CBK
The call-back feature (CBK) means that when a number form the list calls in, VoiBridge Litehangs up,
then initiates a call to the respective number, placing him in connection with the intended target.
This way, the clients in the fields will no longer be charged for the calls, the billing will be for the SIM cards
used in VoIBridgeI4 IP!
With call-back, there are also available three modes of treating the incoming calls, as target (CBK-target),
as DISA (CBK-DISA) or using Dynamic routing of calls (CBK-DCR)
Note:
In CALL CONTROL>Incoming Calls there is no CBK option. Only the mobile numbers listed in the above
table can benefit of the callback feature, to prevent abuse!
Target when you select the mode Target, you must also
complete the field Target, enter the number of the destination for
the incoming call.
Here, target has been set to extension number 283
Action from the last column, select the action to be

performed. When you are editing one of the Localuser
Mobiles rows, the last field, Action, provides you with the
options Edit, to make changes, respectively Exit, to get out, or
More, to access further parameters.
Click the link More to go to the next window for localuser Mobile settings, as shown below:

Select Enable to activate the feature, enter the remote mobile phone number that you want to register as
PBX extension, then choose one of the four mobile interfaces to assign it.
You can leave it to the default any, or lock it to one of the GSM modules, mobile 1, mobile 2, mobile
3 or mobile 4.
Mode establishes how the incoming calls will be treated. There are two main
options, direct (straightforward) and with call-back. For each of these, you have
three choices:
Target the call is routed to the target, such as the number of a local extension,
289.
DCR Dynamic Call Routing. Instead of a static routing table, dynamic routing is
used, when a mobile user rings, he will be automatically connected to the
extension that has called him previously!
DISA the caller receives DISA tone, so he can dial the number of the
destination using DTMF.
The same three options are also available with CBK (call-back) function.
6.9.5 Dynamic Call Routing and Call-back (CBK) Operation

DCR has been explained in the chapter about Call Control.
Here it works in the same way, except that the mobile users are no longer registered as SIP users of the
IP-PBX!
The call-back feature means that when a phone number form the list calls in, VoiBridge I4-GSM hangs
up, then initiates a call back to the respective mobile number, placing him in connection with the intended
target.
This way, the clients in the field will no longer be charged for the calls, instead the billing will be for the
SIM cards used in VoIBridgeI4 gateway!
With call-back, there are also available three modes of treating the incoming calls, as target (CBK-target),
with DISA (CBK-DISA) or using Dynamic routing of calls (CBK-DCR)
Only the numbers listed in this table can benefit of the callback feature, to prevent abuse!
Target enter the number of the destination for the incoming call. This must be completed even when you
select DCR operation, to serve as a reference value when the dynamic list is empty!
Call Mode decides how the localuser mobile calls (both incoming and
outgoing) will be treated. Trunk mean a usual call, with options Target, DISA or
dynamic routing, while User means it will be registered to the IP-PBX as a local
user. In this case you must also complete the next two fields, for authentication.
Extension and password the name of the extension of the IP PBX

and its corresponding password. The mobile phone numbers in the list
will be registered as extensions of the IP PBX: 441, 562 etc.
6.9.6 Trunk or User?

The trunk option is recommended when VoiBridge Liteis used in a local, private network, which has
restricted, controlled access.

But when the gateway is used at a public Internet address, anyone may get in, so it is very important to
restrict the access, to limit those who are able to get in. This is done by authorization with user name and
password.
Incoming calls for users who are registered to the IP-PBX. For those who are not registered, the call
cannot proceed. The call gets out with the ID of the user that you have defined.
Outgoing calls if it is called from another extension of the respective PBX, VoiBridge Litereplaces the call
number with the mobile number, then performs an outgoing call using the mobile interface you have
selected. It uses the mobile number associated with the respective extension. Please note that the caller
from the local PBX does not have to know the mobile phone number, he just rings to the local SIP
extension, a number such as 441 or 647 in the previous examples.

VoiBridge Lite SYSTEM
6.10 SYSTEM
It shows the current state of the VoiBridge Liteequipment and the logs also allows performing
several system-related operations.
The system configuration pages include these settings:

- Status, displays the current status of the VoiBridge Liteequipment
- Syslog View, shows the log file and allows you to save it
- Syslog Settings, settings for the remote log
- Update, you may perform firmware update or upgrade
- Password, allows modification of the password
- Defaults, restores the factory default settings
- Save, saves the current configuration of VoiBridge I4-GSM
- Load, loads a configuration previously stored
- Time, displays and allows you to modify the Local Time of the equipment, in addition to the
real Time Clock.
- Cron, programs a time-based job scheduler.

6.10.1 Status
Shows the status of the VoiBridge
Litesystem. In some firmware versions,
System Status and other special Admin
functions may be protected by additional
passwords.
or:

This page displays information about the following items:

- Serial Number: each VoiBridge Lite device from Topex has a unique identification number,
such as 1110584, 3410583 in the above examples, etc. This is the serial number of the main
board of the Topex router.
According to the requirements of the users, a certain VoiBridge I4-GSM motherboard may be
fitted from factory with up to four mobile modems of different types, or other hardware
features, but the serial number always remain the same;
- Firmware version: version of the application firmware running on VoiBridge I4-GSM : you may
see topex-voibridge-ip-1.0.9-V4P-SCX or VoIBridge-I-1.0.5-V4O-xyz. The firmware can be
easily updated (a new version) or upgraded (new software features added)
- Kernel version (Operating system version), such as system-1.0.5-xzy or system-1.0.8.-VXX
in the example above. The application firmware and the operating system (root or kernel) may
be updated separately, according to the requirements of the users.
The operating system memory is write-protected, thus in case of problems, accidental erasure
or power failure during updating, you still have a functional kernel allowing you to load a new
software image;
- System uptime: time since the last restart of the VoiBridge I4-GSM , both in full format
(hours:minutes:seconds) and short format (up 1 minute) System uptime: 11:41:59 up 4:50;
- Load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.01 or load average: 1.50, 1.67, 1.71 - info about system
loading (maximum value / average value / number of active processes)
or:

6.10.2 Syslog View

Shows and saves the system log:
The log is a place where all the applications running on the VoiBridge Lite store their output messages:
status reports, confirmation or error messages, activity, etc.
It is a plain text (thus easy to interpret) record of actions taken by the software as it runs on VoiBridge I4-
GSM : changes made, devices and drivers detected, files added or deleted, communication with the
modem, network settings, etc.
Correspondingly, records of the kernel or of the user info, debug messages, info or warnings can be seen
in the log:

The log is very helpful when troubleshooting. It may be saved on a PC (simply use Save As option of
your browser) for further examination.
Use the button Reload located at the bottom of the Syslog window to save the current log and refresh
the display:

6.10.3 Syslog Settings
You can change the settings for the remote system log:
By default, the remote log is disabled. If you select Enable and enter a valid IP, instead of showing the log
file locally, VoiBridge Litewill send it to the remote machine.
Here you can also establish the size

of the circular buffer that temporary
stores the log, the default value is
256.

6.10.4 Update Firmware
Allows you to perform an update or upgrade of the firmware running on the VoiBridge I4-GSM.
The webpage displays a single field, Enter in Upgrading Mode No/Yes.

As you can see, the default is No, to prevent accidentally going to the mode of
operation Upgrade. If you do want to perform a software upgrade, select YES from
the drop list, then click the button Reboot.
The screen will display the message Restart in Upgrading Mode, Please wait! and below it you will se a
progress bar:
VoiBridge Lite will shut down and restart in Upgrading Mode. This special mode of operation frees up the
memory of the equipment for the new firmware, allowing you to perform software upgrade easily and
safely.

The system displays information about each step of the updating process, as shown here:
During the updating process, VoiBridge Liteis not available for

routing VoIP and mobile calls.
Also, if an error occurs during software update and the image file
gets corrupted, the equipment will restart in System mode, allowing
you to load a good software image.
The Upgrade configuration page is simplified, containing just a few

elements VoiBridge Liteis operating in System (Kernel) mode
only.
There are only two pages available, NETWORK and SYSTEM.
Network shows the state of the network, you cant perform changes. In System, you can both see the
state of the equipment, or look at the logs, as shown below in the page Syslog View:

But you can also perform a firmware update!
To perform an update, go to SYSTEM>Update as shown in the next image:
The update (firmware image) must be on the PC. The image files are binaries that have the extension
trx.
One may download the image files from the TOPEX website. The update files are called topex-
equipment-1.2.3- x.y.z-P.trx, where equipment is the name of the device, such as <<VoIBridgeI4-ip>>,
in the case of VoIBridgeI4 IP, and 1.2.3. is the version number, for instance 1.0.3 or 1.0.6. The next three
letters indicate the hardware model, such as V4H or V4O:
These are very important, because you must always load a firmware image which corresponds to
the type of your equipment when you have a V4H box, you must update with an image type V4H, and
not V2H or V4P!
The three letters at the end, such as SBX or SCX define the software version.

Enter the name of the update or click Browse to search for it on the system. In the example
below, the image files are located in the folder Updates on the system partition of the hard disk drive, C:
Select the sub-folder for VoIBridgeI4 GSM, choose the file needed and click Open.
Note:
Each firmware file has an associated Control Sum. The control sum is a string of hexadecimal figures,
such as f2209c63972be34f55d4e69d90042d93 and it is stored in a text file (with .txt extension), with the
same name as the firmware image. Using a control sum prevents the user from loading a corrupted
image.
Open the associated text file with the control sum, as shown below:
Open it with a text editor, such as Notepad:
copy the string of checksum from this file and paste it in the VoiBridge Liteweb-page in the field named
Control Sum:

Finally, click the Send button to perform the update

A Firmware Update window shows up, where progress can be seen with a progress indicator
under the message Updating firmware, please wait!
Note that there are two distinct, successive phases of updating the firmware image:
in the first one, while the message Updating firmware is blinking, the equipment just
checks the program image to be loaded against its checksum.
Upload Image file ... OK

Old Version VoiBridge-I-1.0.5-V4O-SCX
New Version VoiBridge-I-1.0.6-V4O-SCX
Install mnt Partition
Unlocking /dev/mtd4 ...
Erasing /dev/mtd4 ...
Writing from cramfs_mnt.bin to /dev/mtd4 ...
only if the result of the verification is OK, the VoiBridge Lite device goes to the second phase
where it actually loads the new firmware into its Flash memory.

The update log shows every step of the update process.

Among other information, it displays the previous firmware version and the new one, such as 1.0.5 and
respectively 1.0.6 in this case:
After the loading of the new firmware is completed, you can restart the VoiBridge Liteequipment to start it
operating with the new software.
For this, you may use the StartApp button located at the button of the system menu, at the left of the
web page.
As an alternative, you can perform a hardware Return to factory defaults by keeping the RST button
pressed when you power up the equipment.

Pressing the button will start up the main application software running on VoIBridge-I4, which allows it
to perform as a VoIP to Mobile gateway:
To verify the updating of the firmware, you can compare the System Status screen before and after
loading the software image:
Before, the software version was 1.0.2:
After successful update, you can see the version is now 1.0.6:

Warning: Do not update the firmware unless there are problems with the VoiBridge I gateway or the new
firmware has a feature that you need. Remember to backup the current configuration first. Be careful
when loading an update file. If selecting a wrong file, or if for different reasons firmware upgrading fails,
the equipment may no longer operate correctly. A special firmware restore will have to be performed.
To avoid this, follow the rules carefully:

- dont turn off the VoiBridge Liteequipment or the computer while the firmware is being
overwritten;
- remember the equipment does not work while firmware update is in progress;
- after successful updating, verify the upgraded firmware;
- remember that updating the firmware on the VoiBridge Litecould cause some or all of the
configuration settings to be lost, depending on the degree of change in the firmware.
Therefore it is highly recommended to save the current configuration before updating, and then restore it.
To backup the settings, perform a Save, update the firmware, and then load the saved settings, after
having the equipment operating with the updated firmware.
6.10.5 Password Change

Allows the modification of passwords for the log-in accounts, in this case admin.
First of all, use the Account drop list to choose for which account do
you want to change the password, for user (who has access only to
the SMS page) or for admin, the Administrator account.
For changing the admin account password, the user must be logged in as admin.
Type the new password and enter it again on the second row to confirm it.
Save saves the new password.

Replace the default passwords for user (99user11) and respectively Administrator (99admin11)
with speciffic ( of your own) as soon as possible.
Please choose a password with a minimum of six characters. In order to effectively prevent unauthorized
access, the password must be long enough and include both letters and numbers.
Note that the password is case-sensitive.
6.10.6 Default Configuration

This option restores all the system settings to factory defaults.
You can also click Default on each page to reset the respective parameters to default, but this
function restores the whole device to factory default at once.
When selecting Defaults, a window shows up, displaying the default settings for the local
network and asking you for confirmation - Are you sure?
The Network Default Settings are displayed because they are the most important if you do not know
the IP address of VoiBridge Litein the local network, you cannot connect to it in order to manage it!
If wanting to proceed, click the YES button and the equipment will revert to the factory default settings.
Following a reset, it will start operating with the factory default values for all parameters.
During the process, Updating settings, please wait! and a red progress bar, can be seen as shown
below:

CAUTION!
Use this option carefully. During the process, the VoiBridge Litewill not be available for VoIP, call routing
and connecting to the mobile network. For a few moments, the LAN icon in the status bar will be barred
with a red x and the message A network cable is unplugged will show up, indicating that VoiBridge
Liteis unavailable.
Hardware factory defaults
Return to Defaults can also be performed via hardware. This means the Web interface doesnt have to
be used.
For this, perform the Hardware reset described previously.
Remember, you must follow exactly the procedure described next, simply pressing the recessed RST
button wont work. So you must follow these steps:
- shut down the VoiBridge Litedevice (unplug the power jack)
- press the RST button and keep it pressed
- power up VoiBridge I4-GSM
- wait until all three LEDs light up (in green, yellow and red), then leave the RST button.
Now the equipment performs a reset with return to factory default settings. This does NOT happed if you
dont follow exactly the procedure described above for instance, if you continue to press RST after
the three indicators have turned on in red color!
This way of restoring the factory default settings is faster than using the web interface, but the same care
should be exercised.
Note: The Return to Defaults option is quite useful when incorrect settings have been performed or when
the IP of the VoiBridge Litedevice are forgotten. If not having the IP address or if having incorrect settings
for iptables, one wont be able to connect to the VoIP4Mobile to administer it. Perform a hardware factory
defaults, and VoiBridge Litewill revert to its original settings, including the IP address of 192.168.173.1.

Reminder for Network Default Settings
As you can see, the Defaults page reminds you which are the default settings for Network, so you know
exactly where to connect to following a restore default configuration.
For this class of Topex equipments, the default IP address is 192.168.173.1, with the net mask
255.255.0.0, and the gateway is 192.168.1.2. The connection type is https!

6.10.7 Save
The Save option makes a backup copy of the current configuration (all the settings made) of the
VoiBridge Liteequipment.
The configuration file is called serialnumber.cfg by default. It is the serial number of the motherboard of
the respective VoiBridge Liteunit, which is 3410579 in this case.
A message similar to the example above will be shown, asking you what to do with the file.
Click Save or select

Save it to disk to
save the file with the
current configuration
of the VoiBridge I4-
GSM
One may select the folder where the configuration will be saved, such as Saves on hard disk partition C;
also, one should change the default name xxxxxxxxx,cng into a name meaningful for the actual
configuration.

Note: It is highly recommended to backup the configuration from time to time. This way the user can
always load the saved configuration, if there is need. For instance, when performing a Restore to factory
defaults, all previous settings are lost. If the configuration was saved, it can be loaded back to perform
changes.
Also, one should perform a Save before using Update to load a new software image, since the new
firmware could erase some of the settings.
This is especially useful when having configured many particular settings, for example related to routing
rules or to SIP and mobile users it will take a long time to edit these specific settings by hand.

6.10.8 Load saved settings
It loads a configuration file that has been saved previously or restores a backup. It is the operation
complimentary to Save:
Use Browse or Choose button to navigate to the location where the configuration file was saved.

Press Open, then click Send to send the file to the VoiBridge I.
then click Send to send the file to the VoiBridge I unit.

First the message Updating settings, please wait will start to blink, and then a red progress, below the
blinking message:
6.10.9 Time Settings

The time settings page allows you to see and set up the Local Time of the VoiBridge equipment:
The RTC time, kept by the Real Time Clock of the equipment, is the one synchronized form the distant
NTP server, which provides UTC time (universal time, formerly called GMT ).

But you must adjusts this universal time to the actual time /
date, taking into account the local time zone, which can be
before or behind the UTC time (for instance in Romania the
official time is set at two hours after UTC)
To adjust this, you have the Time Zone field.

It activates a drop list, you can choose instead of the default
UTC-00:00 the value corresponding to your time zone, from
UTC-12.00 up to UTC+14.00!
All time zones of the are available, including those with half hour
or quarter hour increment!
The new value will be active only after you press Commit and VoiBridge Literestarts with the new
settings:
In the example below you can see that, following the setting of time Zone to UTC + 02 : 00 and the reboot-
ing of the equipment, now the value shown by Local time is identical to the one displayed by the RTC
Time:
Note that during the official summer period, the official Time
Zone for Bucharest should be set to has been set to UTC+03.00,
instead of +2, since this is the right time for Romania, while the
Daylight saving Time is used:
Set time
The set Time link at the bottom of the Time
page gets you to a sub-page where you can
manually set up any date and time you want, no
matter which is the real time, provided by NTP
servers of kept by the Real Time Clock of the
equipment.

As soon as you press the Set button at the bottom of the page, the equipment starts operating with the
new date /time that you have set up.
In the example below you can see the operation following manual setting of the time to the 2009-07-29
22-55-05 value shown above.
Currently both the RTC and the Local Time of the VoiBridge Lite GSM are showing 29 July 2009, even if
we are now in November 2010!

6.10.10 Cron tab

Allows you to set up entries in the CronTab table.
Cron is an Unix utility (Unix daemon) that executes at a specified time and date commands from a
crontab file. Cron is used to schedule some functions to be performed periodically, in this case to reboot
the VoiBridge equipment, to reset one or several of the Mobile modules, to clear the output folder, or other
operations.
The Cron feature is intended for long-term operation (you can program ahead for the whole year!) and for
seldom-occurring events. For events that you want to occur very frequently, for instance every 5 minutes,
this is not the best solution!
At first, all rows of the CronTab table are empty, you must use New and Save to create a new entry:
And then Edit to change it:

Status Enable or Disable. If an entry is set as Disable, it will not be active.

You can define and save several entries, but activate them only when they are need depending on the
actual requirements of the system.
Minutes This field controls what minute of the hour the command will run on, values are between '0' and
'59'
Hours This controls what hour the command will run on, and is specified in the 24 hour clock format,
values must be between 0 and 23 (0 is midnight)
dom This is the Day of Month, that you want the command run on, values from 1 up to 31. When you
need to run a command on the 4th of each month, you should enter in this field the value 04.
month This is the month a specified command will run on, it may be specified numerically (0-12).
dow This is the Day of Week that you want a command to be run on, it must also be numeric (0-7)
Run This is the command that you want run. Default is None;
Currently you can use the commands CleanOut, to delete the content of the
OUT directory of the device (where there are stored the log files generated
by the Capture option), Reboot, to restart the VoiBridge Liteequipment, r
respectively Reset Module 1 4 to reset a certain mobile module, or
CleanSMS, to deletes all received SMS in order to free the storage memory
for new text messages..
By default, all fields of the Cron table are filled with a star, * , which means any.
A few examples:.
19 * * * * ResetModule1 - The command to reset module 1 will be run at the 19th minute past every
hour
00 5 * * 5 ResetModule2 The command to reset module 2 will be run at 5 in the morning every
Saturday
01 * 25 10 * ResetModule1 The command to reset module 1 will be run hourly on the 15th of
October.
Notes:
- Under dow, the values 0 and 7 are both Sunday.
- If both the dom and dow are specified, the command will be executed when either of the events happen.

For instance:
* 10 22 * 1 Run
Will run the command at ten oclock in the morning Monday and every 22nd, and will produce the same
result as both of these two entries put together would:
* 10 22 * * Run
* 10 * * Run
-The Cron of VoiBridge Litealso accepts numeric lists in the fields.

Lists can be in the form: 1;3;4 (meaning 1 and 3 and 4). Notice that the delimiter is a semicolon ;.
For instance:
33 10 * * 1;2;3;4;5 Run
Will run the respective command at 10:33 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
While
0 0 1;10;15 * * Run
Will run the respective command at midnight on the 1st ,10th & 15th of each month.
Frequently reset a module

If you need to reset a certain Mobile module every 5 minutes, for instance, the usage of Cron is quite
difficult: you should write in the field Minutes all the respective values, such as:
00;05;10,15;20;25;30;35;40;45;50;55 this is cumbersome.
A better solution is to go to Mobile>Settings page and use More to
reach the Reset Timer field, where you select 5min to make the
respective mobile module to be resetted every five minutes!
The command None does nothing at the specified time / date!

You can use this option, to define and save several hours and dates, but no action will be in fact taken,
until you replace in the filed Run the option <<None>> with the one you really want to happen: CleanOut,
Reboot, Reset Module 4, etc.

VoiBridge Lite TOOLS
6.11 TOOLS
These are instruments or tools for advanced debugging of the equipment the allow a specialist to
capture and save detailed operation logs, check for network hosts, and so on.
6.11.1 Capture
Captures logs, saves and downloads them and performs tcp dump.

First, you should mark the checkboxes for the log items that you want
to be included in the capture (logs for Application, System, SIP,
Mobile, Call Detail Records, etc.) then you press Start to begin
capture.
The screen now shows the message capture Running and the
name of the button changes to Stop.
Click it to stop the capture.
Now the message says Capture

stopped.
You can:
- pres Init to go to the initial state
and erase the current capture that
is stored in VoIBridgeI4 IP
- download the capture that you
performed,
- Go to settings page for advanced
configuration of the capture
functions.
Should you choose Download, the window Opening capture.tar shows up, asking you what to do with
this file.

Normally, you should save it into a dedicated folder on your computer, to be able later to send the
downloaded capture to the specialists (support team) or to look at it yourself.
You can change the default directory, or make a special folder to store the captures, if you use frequently
this feature.
In the example below, this directory is called CAPTURES, and the current capture file, which is saved in
this folder, has been renamed as Voibridge4-H323:
The capture files are intended for the specialized support personnel.
If you want to view the content of the Capture archive, you should first open it with an utility program which
can un-pack tar archives (in the example below, the Capture file is named cap-abus2.tar):

The Capture archive includes several directories holding different files, such as dump.tcap which is the
result of the TCPDUMP operation, and DD-MM-YY.log, which is the log created by the Capture
operation.
It is a text file, whose name indicates the day when it was created, such as 30-06-10 in this example:
14:40:55,847439 65535 59 SendDebugToH323 M_H323DEBUG

14:40:55,848797 65535 59 SendDebugToH323OUT M_H323DEBUG
14:40:55,923062 65535 144 send_oksim0 OK SIM0
14:40:55,923914 65535 144 analize_mes_mobip buflng 11 007808 4f4b205349
14:40:55,924997 65535 144 DispatchFromPort M_PORTISDN port 0
14:40:55,925868 65535 144 DispatchFromPort MSKJON
14:40:55,926696 65535 144 DispatchFromPort P_KEYPAD dest 0 len 8 debug_run 0
debug_gsm 0 moniport 1
14:40:55,938989 00000 3 Pid_Set_Timer_Persistent tmr 0 val 10000
14:40:56,354170 65535 65535 init_aPT -------
14:40:56,422727 65535 65535 RunWhileMain WARN int in int retval 70022, run_nr
Or like this:
6.11.2 Settings
This page allows you to configure advanced settings for the Capture feature:
- activate of the Capture feature
- enable capturing upon starting up of VoiBridge Lite(at boot) and duration of this reboot capture
- establish default checkboxes for the TOOLS>Capture page, this way setting up the log files which
will be included it the capture archive
- tcpdump status (enabled, disabled) and command-line parameters:

First of all, enable or disable the Capture feature.

By default, it is Disabled.
Set it to Enable if you need to perform capture!
When you Disable the Capture feature, all subsequent fields will be disabled!
If you enable Start at reboot, the capture will
begin immediately as VoiBridge Litestarts
operating, and will continue for the duration
established in the field Capture Timeout.
VoIBridgeI4 will run the Capture utility
immediately as it starts operation, before other
programs, such as the principal application, the
call control function.
Capture Timeout here you can select from the drop list the
duration of the capture performed upon VoiBridge Litestart-up.
Available time intervals are 15, 30, 45 , 60, 120, 280 and
respectively 480 seconds (up to eight minutes).
Activate:
To activate the settings, use the buttons Save
and respectively Commit to make active the
option of performing capture upon start-up, and
Back to go back to the first page of the
TOOLS>Capture menu.
Establishing the defaults for capture:

If in Settings you
have Enabled, for
instance, only the first
three items for logs,
upon next restart of
VoIBridgeI4, in the
page Capture you will
see that,
correspondingly, the
first three checkboxes
are marked by default:
TCPDUMP
You can Enable the TCPDUMP feature, then in the field
tcpdump you can insert command line parameters, to
filter out the stored dumping information.
For instance, udp tells TCPDUMP to store only

information about the packets transferred using the UPD
protocol.
Save the new settings, then press Start to begin the capture.
You will see the status message Capture running
After you have stopped the Capture by

clicking the Stop button, you have three
options, as shown in the image to the left:
- press Init to erase the Capture
archive that was created and to go
back to the initial configuration page
for Capture;
- Download Capture, to save the
Capture archive on the harddisk;
- Settings, to go to the page with
advanced settings for capture.
6.11.3 Download Capture

When you press the link Download
Capture, the window Opening capture.tar
shows up, indicating that your computer
tries to open the capture archive which is
located on VoIBridgeI4 IP.
Select save file to save it in a directory of

your choice on your computer.
In the example below, the capture files (the latest one being renamed as cap-zetix are stored in the
directory named CAPTURES, on the hard disk drive C: of the computer:
The Capture must be sent to the support personnel.
6.11.4 View Capture
The Capture files can be opened with an utility which knows to unpack .tar archives.
Depending upon the configuration you have selected, the Capture archive may contain a single text log, or
several files:

The text file is the Capture log
itself:
Other files in the Capture archive may contain information about billing (CDR), about the SIP users (SIP)
and respectively the tcpdump dump file:
You can open it with dump.pcap (Ethereal or WireShark program)
Or like this:

6.11.5 Ping
Allows you to send an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request to the address you enter
in the field Host Address:
Ping is a basic Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can
accept requests. It used diagnostically to ensure that a host computer the user is trying to reach is
actually operating, to test connectivity and determine response time.

Enter the address and click the Send button.
The field Response will show the result (received or not) and statistics about the time or propagation.
You can PING a host in the local network were VoIBridgeI4 is connected, with very low response time (2-5
msec):
Or you can use TOOLS>Ping to check a public (external address), when the round trip delay will be of
course larger:
When the host is unavailable, you will receive no specific error message, but you will see that no packets
get through, the answer is something like this:
0 packets received, 100% packet loss:
Or:

Or:

7 SPECIFICATIONS
7.1 Technical Specifications
TITLE DESCRIPTION
Mobile networks Depending upon the actual type of modules fitted
supported GSM /GPRS and respectively UMTS for the 3G+ modules
Depending upon the actual type of mobile modules fitted
Frequency bands GSM/GPRS/EDGE: dual, tri-band ( 800/900/1800 MHz) or quad band
UMTS 2100MHz: 2100 MHz (Band Class 1)
Supported
TCP/IP, PPP, CHAP, PAP, ARP, UDP, SIP and H323, NTP and others
protocols
VoIP Up to four uncompressed channels, H323 and SIP protocols supported
Web page configuration, by means of a browser, no additional
Features
software is required for administration and management
Switch with four LAN ports, Ethernet 10/100 base-T
Wired Network
Connector type: female RJ45
interface
Transfer speed: 10/100 Mbps
Real Time Clock with holding Li-ion battery, keeps accurate time even
RTC
when the equipment is powered off.
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 800/900MHz: +32dBm (Power Class 4)
Max. transmitter GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1800MHz: +29 dBm (Power Class 1)

power
UMTS/HSDPA 2100MHz: +23dBm (Power Class 3. 8PSK mode Class
E2) , only for devices fitted with 3G modules
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 800/900: - 107 dBm

1800 MHz: -105 dBm
Receiver static Compliant with TS 05.05 (R99)
sensitivity
UMTS/HSDPA 2100MHz: Compliant with 3GPP TS 25.101(R5) only
for devices fitted with 3G modules
GSM: FR, EFR, HR, AMR

Voice service UMTS: AMR(12.2kbps/10.2kbps/7.95kbps/7.4kbps/6.7kbps/5.9kbps
/5.15kbps/4.75kbps)
Concurrent
1 UMTS CS voice + 1 UMTS PS data, only for devices fitted with 3G
service (Based on
modules
UMTS)
Supporting SMS based on CS domain of GSM or UMTS Supporting

SMS
SMS based on PS domain of UMTS
Mobile antenna Single external quad-band antenna with magnetic base and cable
Supply voltage 12 VD.C. (+ centre wire, - external conductor)
Special adapter from mains,
Mean Well. Type: GS40A12
Supply adapter Input: 100-240V A.C , , 50/60 Hz, max 1.0 A
Output: 12VD.C. / 3.34A
Max. Power: 40 W

TITLE DESCRIPTION
Power
Less than 33 W
consumption
Three color LEDs and one green LED for each LAN interface and
Status indicators mobile module
Temperature Operating: 50 .... 500 C

range Storage: 00.... 600 C
Dimensions
26 x 20 x 4,8 (cm) except protrusions
(L x W x H)
7.2 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

The VoiBridge Lite was designed for indoor use only, so you should NOT operate it outdoors.
Install the VoiBridge Lite in closed rooms or enclosures, where the environmental conditions should be:
operating temperature range: from 5 to 50 degrees C
relative humidity: from 10 to 85 %, non-condensing
Avoid dust and prolonged exposure to sun. In addition, VoiBridge Litemust NOT be used in a flammable
or explosive environment, or in locations where toxic or flammable gases may accumulate.
The equipment must be handled with care, to avoid mechanical shocks and blows.
The VoiBridge Lite should not be used in an environment with high level of EMI (electromagnetic
interferences) that is in close proximity to high power equipment such as electric motors or heaters. In
addition, it should not be placed near copiers, PC monitors, TV sets or other audio-video appliances.
In order to ensure adequate working temperature, the VoiBridge Lite interface must not be used too close
to heat sources or in direct sunlight.
Also, it must not be overcrowded: leave free space around, below and above the VoiBridge Lite. This is
needed both for connecting Ethernet and antenna cables, and also for ventilation (natural air cooling to
dissipate the heat generated during operation).
When allowed operating temperature is exceeded this may not have an immediate, visible effect on the
VoiBridge Lite unit, but it can result in unreliable operation, accelerated ageing and hence diminishing of
lifetime.
Also, you must have free space to the front panel of the unit, to allow easy access for replacing the SIM
cards used inside VoiBridge I4-Mobile.
When selecting the location for installing the external antennas of the VoiBridge I4-GSM , refer to the
recommendations described in the chapter about mounting the equipment.
The TOPEX VoiBridge Litedoes not include materials or components that are harmful to the environment.
When the life cycle of this device has expired and it cannot be repaired or re-used, dispose of it in
accordance with applicable laws and legal regulations.

8 GLOSSARY
3G Third generation mobile networks, specially designed for high speed data services. The
classic definition of wireless networks that following the 2G systems (GSM) and they offer high
speed data services in addition to the basic voice capability. These 3G mobile communications
systems provide an enhanced range of multimedia services (high speed Internet access, video
streaming, etc.). The high data transfer speed specific to the third generation communications
network leads to an increased efficiency of information transmission, while the real time access to
data and information means important savings of time and money. UMTS is the best known of
the 3Gnetworks, while HSPA (HSUPA, HSDPA) is a 3,5G development, also called 3G+.
VoiBridge I4-GSM may be fitted with mobile modules for 3G and 3G+ networks.
AMR Acronym for Adaptive Multi-Rate Vocoder. AMR is a patented audio data compression
scheme optimized for speech coding, according to GSM 06.90. AMR was adopted as the
standard speech codec by 3GPP in October 1998 and is now widely used in GSM and UMTS.
Uses link adaptation to select from one of eight different bit rates, based upon actual conditions
of the mobile link. Owing to its adaptative nature, it is said that AMR provides the highest quality
of speech clarity for remote mobile phone communication at the lowest possible cost. Previous
codecs used in GSM, such as Enhanced Full-Rate (EFR) could not adjust their rate of bits
produced. Only works for VoiBrige-4-GSM equipments fitted with certain GSM modules (form
Siemens).
ANI Acronym for Automatic Number Identification - a feature of telephony intelligent network
services which allows subscribers to display or capture the telephone numbers of calling parties.
The service is often provided by sending the digital tone multi frequency (DTMF) tones along with
the call. Home users of ANI can screen callers. ANI is commonly used by emergency centre
dispatchers to save the caller having to report the information and, when necessary, to help
locate callers. A telephone company's 9-1-1 service to a public safety point usually includes the
ANI feature. For instance, in a call centre, ANI displays the number of the calling party to the call
centre agent in real time. Among other things, the call center can use the information to forward
calls to different people for different geographic areas.
DNS Server Address (Domain Name System) - DNS allows Internet host computers to have a
domain name and one or more IP addresses. A DNS server keeps a database of host computers
and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so that server your ISP has assigned.
Domain Name Resolution - The resolving of a domain name. Internet applications dont
communicate with domain names such as google.com or topex.ro, instead they use IP addresses
(for example 193.226.61.95 or 216.239.39.99). Domain Name Resolution is the process
(transparent for the user) of converting domain names into corresponding IP addresses. Every
operating system has routines that deal with resolution of domain names.
Ethernet - Standard for wired computer networks. Ethernet networks are connected by cables
and hubs, and move data around. For wired connections, VoiBridge I4-GSM provides four
Ethernet 10/100 ports, for the local LAN.
Firewall - System designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. The
firewall determines which information passes in and out of and prevents anyone outside of your
network from accessing your computer without authorization and possibly damaging or viewing
your files. Any company with an intranet that allows its workers access to the wider Internet must
use a software or hardware firewall to prevent outsiders from accessing its own private data
resources and for controlling what outside resources its own users have access to. Here the
firewall is software a set of related programs (residing on the gateway server) that protect the
resources of the local (internal) network. VoiBridge features a SPI firewall, fully configurable.
Gateway - A network point that manages all the data traffic of your network, as well as to the
Internet and connects one network to another. VoiBridge Liteis a mobile gateway, since it
interfaces between VoIP calls form the local Ethernet network and the voice/data mobile
networks.

H.245 alphanumeric specific protocol for sending out DTMF under VoIP. When you use
H323 protocol for VoIP instead of SIP, you can select the option H.245 alphanumeric. The
ITU-T H.245 standard specifies several ways of sending out DTMF. Tones are sent out over
the H.245 signaling channel, rather than in-band with voice traffic via RTP channel. H.245
transmits DMTF tones to the receiving gateway as the ASCII character it represents (1, 2, 3,
and so on). It does not send tone-length information. Each tone is assumed to last 500
milliseconds (ms).
The H.245 signaling channel is considered to be reliable channel, so the packets that transport
the DTMF tones are guaranteed to be delivered. However, because of the overhead of using a
reliable protocol, and depending on network congestion conditions, the DTMF tones may be
slightly delayed. Topex has implemented the alphanumeric version of the H.245 signal
protocol for better compatibility - all H.323 version 2 compliant systems are required to support
the "h245-alphanumeric" method, while the support for the "h245-signal" method only optional.
IP Address Short from Internet Protocol address. The numerical address of a network
device or resource as expressed in the format specified in the Internet Protocol (IP). In the
current addressing format, IP version 4, the IP address is a 32-bit (4 bytes) sequence divided
into four groups of decimal numbers separated by periods ("dots"). Each number can be zero
to 255. These four groups of numbers look like 127.0.0.1 or 213.154.120.170. The four
numbers in an IP address are used in different ways to identify a particular network and a host
on that network.
IP Acronym for Internet Protocol. It is the protocol from TCP/IP that directs the way data is
sent from one computer to another on the Internet. The messages are divided into data
packets, routed from the sender network to the receiver network and there re-assembled in the
right order to re-create the original message. Because a message is divided into a number of
packets, each packet can, if necessary, be sent by a different route across the Internet. These
data packets can arrive in a different order than the order they were sent in. The Internet
Protocol just delivers them. It's up to TCP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol) to put the
packets back in the right order.
Note that IP is a connectionless protocol, which means that there is no continuing connection
between the end points that are communicating. IP corresponds to the layer 3, the Networking
Layer from the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communication model.
ISP (Internet Service Provider) - An ISP is a business that allows individuals or businesses to
connect to the Internet. Users log on to the Internet using an account with an ISP or Internet
Service Provider. ISPs can serve IP addresses dynamically, or assign static (fixed) IP
addresses to individual computers.
LAN - Acronym for local area network (computer network that spans a relatively small area). A
group of computers, workstations and associated devices that share a common communications line
or wireless link and are located in a relatively limited area, typically inside the same office building.
The communications link that interconnects these computers allows any device of the network to
interact with any other from the same network. The devices that compose a local network
(workstations, personal computers and peripherals) are called nodes and typically share the
resources of a single processor or server. This server has resources (applications, processing and
data storage capabilities) that are shared in common by multiple computer users. The LAN can be
connected to other local networks over any distance via phone lines, wireless links or other
connections, and the system of LANs connected in this way is called a wide-area network (WAN).
The LAN may also be connected to the Internet through a gateway. VoiBridge Liteequipment is
connected in a local network through its four Ethernet ports.
LCR Acronym for Least Cost Routing - Refers to the method for delivering calls according to the
lowest cost carrier. Often more than one carrier can compete to deliver a call and depending on their
relative charges, the LCR Switch (which contains a database of our carriers, destinations and
charges) will connect the call via the cheapest carrier. This process means searching for the
optimum traffic routes via one or several traffic routings enabling a cost reduction. VoiBridge
Liteimplements LCR functions, since it analyze incoming calls and sends them to the established
route or towards the GSM module (with local or remote SIM card) which assures the minimum costs.

MAC Address (Media Access Control) - A MAC address is the hardware (physical) address of a
device connected to a network.
All network interface controllers must have a hard-coded and unique MAC address. The MAC
address is applied at the factory and uniquely identifies network hardware, such as an Ethernet
cards, modems or wireless adaptors on a LAN or WAN. The first part of the address is unique to
the company that produced the device, and beyond that it is a sequence of digits unique to any
single device manufactured by a company. VoiBridge Litefeatures four LAN Ethernet port, so it
will have one MAC for each of these ports.
RBT Acronym for Ring-back Tone. RBT or Audible Ringing Tone is the audible ringing that is
heard by the calling party over the telephone line after dialing and prior to the call being answered
at the receiving end. This tone assures the calling party that a ringing signal is being sent on the
called party's line, although the ring-back tone may be out of synchronization with the actual
ringing signal. The Topex mobile gateways send out the RingBack from GSM/FXS/FXO/CDMA in
band. To this purpose, a PROGRESS message is sent by default by the Topex equipments. You
should check if PROGRESS is enabled on remote equipments interconnected with VoiBridge,
otherwise you should disable sending progress messages in VoiBridge-I.
RTC Acronym for real-time clock. Battery-powered clock microchip that keeps accurate time
in an equipment. It stores and updates the current time and date values. The time values are for
the year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds. The RTC chip must have an alternate
source of power, so it can continue to keep time while the primary source of power (the mains
adapter of VoiBridge, in this case) is off or unavailable. Normally this alternate source of power is
a coin type lithium battery, which powers the RTC even when the rest of the equipment is off.
The RTC of VoiBridge Liteensures accurate timekeeping even if the NTP server is disabled, or
during the time while the equipment is shut off (not powered).
SNTP - Acronym for Simple Network Time Protocol. Simplified version of NTP, Internet standard
protocol used to update the real-time clock in a computer. It assures accurate synchronization to
the millisecond of computer clock times in a network of computers. NTP is very useful in packet-
switched, variable-latency data networks. In case of VoiBridge I4-GSM , you can use SNTP to
synchronize the equipment with one or two remote Time severs, accessible over the Internet.
NTP runs as a continuous background client program on a computer and it sends periodic time
requests to servers, obtaining server time stamps and using them to adjust the client's clock. NTP
uses UDP port 123 as its transport layer. It is designed particularly to resist the effects of variable
latency. There are numerous primary and secondary servers in the Internet that are synchronized
to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via radio, satellite or modem. For more information, visit
www.ntp.org.
Routing -The process of determining and prescribing the path or method to be used for
establishing connections and forwarding data packets. In a network, a 'routing switch' is a device
that combines the functions of a switch, which forwards data by looking at a physical device
address, and a router, which forwards packets by locating a next hop address. Each host with a
router in the network uses the routing table information to determine the next host to route a
packet to for a specified destination.
S-HTTP - Acronym for SECURE HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL. A secure way of
transferring information over the Web, by using an application-level encryption scheme. S-HTTP
is an extension of the normal HTTP with security enhancements for WWW-based commerce.
Web pages that use S-HTTP have a URL starting with https://. Typically HTTP data is sent over
TCP/IP port 80, but HTTPS data is sent over port 443. The standard was developed for secure
transactions, and uses 40-bit encryption ("weak" encryption) or 128-bit ("strong" encryption).
The HTTPS standard supports certificates and allows encryption, digital signatures,
authentication, or any combination of these. The S-HTTP type of transaction security is more
secure than a user ID and password, thus it is mostly used by financial institutions (for example
for credit-card purchases over the Web).
Since VoiBridge Liteprovides S-HTTP connection to its pages of configuration, this means a
higher degree of security for you.
SMS - Acronym for Short Message Service; means the transmission of short text messages to
and from cellular phones. The messages must be text only (no images or graphics) and not
longer than 160 alpha-numeric characters. mobile network) from the computer connected to it.
Also, it performs email-2-SMS and SMS-2-email conversions.

SIP Acronym for Session Initiation Protocol - a protocol proposed standard for
initiating, modifying, and terminating an interactive user session that involves multimedia
elements such as video, voice, instant messaging, online games, and virtual reality. It is
one of the leading signaling protocols for Voice over IP, along with H.323. VoiBridge I4-
GSM can be used for VoIP calls that use either SIP protocol or H323 protocol.
SIP clients traditionally use TCP and UDP port 5060 to connect to SIP servers and other
SIP endpoints. SIP is primarily used in setting up and tearing down voice or video calls.
However, it can be used in any application where session initiation is a requirement.
These include Event Subscription and Notification, Terminal mobility and so on. There are
a large number of SIP-related RFCs that define behavior for such applications. All
voice/video communications are done over separate transport protocols, typically RTP.
TCP/IP Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. It was
established by the Defense Department of the USA for communications between
computers. It has been at first incorporated in UNIX operating system but has become the
de facto standard for data transmission via networks, including for Internet.
Currently TCP/IP is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet, but it
can also be used as a communications protocol in private network.
TCP Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol. In TCP/IP, the TCP part is the one that
takes care of keeping track of the individual units of data (packets) that a message was
divided into for efficient routing through the Internet. TCP is known as a connection-
oriented protocol, which means that a connection is established and maintained until the
message or messages to be exchanged by the application programs at each end have
been exchanged. TCP is responsible for ensuring that a message is divided into the
packets that IP manages and for reassembling the packets back into the complete
message at the other end.
At the destination, TCP reassembles the individual packets and waits until they have all
arrived to forward them to you as a single file. It also checks the received packets. TCP
acts at the transport level (level 4) of the ISO/OSI model. See also ISO/OSI model,
packet, TCP/IP.
UDP Acronym for User Datagram Protocol. It is a simpler protocol than TCP/IP that
corresponds to the transport layer of the ISO/OSI model. UDP converts the messages
generated by the application into data packets to be sent through IP, but does not check if
the messages have been transmitted correctly or not.
UDP allows individual packets to be dropped (with no retries) and UDP packets to be
received in a different order than they were sent. Consequently UDP is more efficient but
less reliable than TCP and is used to different purposes - primarily for broadcasting
messages over a network. With UDP, reliability is wholly in charge of the application that
generates the message.
UDP is used often in applications such as videoconferencing or games where optimal
performance is preferred over guaranteed message delivery.
VoIP - Acronym for Voice over IP. It describes the hardware or software category which
allows humans to make phone calls over the Internet. The voice signals are converted in
data packets and these are sent on the public telephonic lines, avoiding the costs of the
PSTN network. The VoIP applications can be used with a regular microphone and
computer speakers, but also can be used IP phones or VoIP speakers, providing an
identical experience like the regular telephony. In the last time, the quality and the
reliability of the VoIP technology improved so much that many users renounced
completely at the standard telephony contracts for VoIP technology.

The manufacturer reserves the right to modify the product and manual for the purpose of
technical improvement without prior notice. The manufacturer guarantees the good
functioning of the product provided that it has been correctly installed and the directives for
storage and usage have been respected. The warranty implies exclusively repairing or
replacing the defective unit. The warranty does not include any indirect losses or loss of
profit. The manufacturer is not liable for any damage, whether direct, indirect, special,
incidental, or consequential, as a result of using VoiBridge Lite.
No part of this manual may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in

any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior
written permission of the company ROHDE & SCHWARZ TOPEX S.A.
It is certified hereby that the VoiBridge Lite unit is manufactured in concordance with the
legal provisions concerning responsibility towards the quality of delivered products, fulfils
the quality parameters specified in its Users manual and is fit for the purpose for which it
has been designed. It also warrants that the equipment will perform substantially in
accordance with the accompanying documentation.
Any comments, suggestions and proposals of yours concerning our products are welcome
and we are gladly waiting for your feedback:
ROHDE & SCHWARZ TOPEX

Feleacu street, no. 10, sector 1
Bucharest 014186 ROMANIA
Tel: +4021 408.39.00
Fax: +4021 408.39.09
Web: www.topex.ro

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Our VoiBridge Lite equipment has the following features:

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WEEE Directive Compliance

This symbol applied on your product or on its packaging means that

2006/66/CE Directive Compliance

1. The battery is 5. Deliver over the

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ISSUE DATE NUMBER OF A* TITLE OR BRIEF MADE BY

E 2012 Cover, conformity A,M Added conformity V. Sfetcu

A Added, M- Modified, D- Deleted

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6.7 CALL CONTROL ................................................................................................................. 98

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REASON FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS PRODUCT:

- To complete the line of Topex gateways

- To extend the range

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2. VoiBridge Lite FEATURES

VoiBridge Lite is a highly versatile

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3.1 LABELS AND IDENTIFICATORS

3.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF LABELS

Manufacturer and product type

Manufacturer identification (name, phone, website);

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Default IP address of the Topex device in the local

EMC, Safety, and CE Directive Compliance.

See Conformity chapter in Installation Manual for VoiBridge Lite equipment.

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4.3 SOFTWARE INFORMATION

Here are displayed two categories of information :

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The permanent identification info shown refers to the following elements:

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4.1 Establishing the Best Location

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4.2 Status indicators

Figure 1: LEDs location

5.9. Significance of LED indicators:

Upon hardware reset:

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5.1 Required conditions for configuration

5.2 Using the web interface

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5.3. Set up a connection

Use a significant name, such as VoiBridge Lite or Topex Gateway or VoIP2Mobile

From the network adapters (network

In this example, it is the network board

Check the box Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Configure the connection to VoiBridge Lite

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5.5. Manual settings

- the IP address could be from 192.168.173.2