Configuring Sangoma A-102 2 Port PRI with Netborder VoIP Gateway for 3CX Phone System

IMPORTANT: This guide has been tested with Netborder Express gateway Version 4.1.4 on both 32 and 64 bit operating systems.
Version 4 of Netborder express was tested with 3CX Phone System Version 10
This guide is based on an A102 2 Port T1/E1 PCI Card installed on the same machine as 3CX Phone System.
Supported Sangoma ISDN Cards for both E1 and T1 are the following: A101, A102, A104, A108

Setting up the Sangoma A102 Card
  1. Download the Commercial version of Netborder Express 4.1.4 for Windows from the Sangoma Website here: http://sangoma.com/products/software_products/netborder_suite/netborder_express/download.html
  2. Extract the package and install the appropriate version (32 or 64 bit) of NBE depending on the architecture of the target computer. Follow the installation instructions. At the end you will be prompted to power off the computer to insert the card.
  3. Power off the computer, open the chassis and insert the Sangoma A102 card in an available PCI or PCI express slot on the mainboard depending on what PCI support the card offers. When done, power up the computer. Windows will detect the new hardware device and find the drivers accordingly for it.
Configuring the Sangoma A102 with 3CX Phone System

  1. Log in to the 3CX Management Console, click on PSTN devices and click on Add Gateway.

  2. Enter a name for the Gateway (Example SangomaA200), Select “Sangoma” from the Brand Dropdown and select a model from the list of devices. In this case we will select the A102, 2 port E1, PCI Card for NBE V4. Click Next to proceed.

  3. Choose whether you want the card to add a leading Zero to the number or not.

  4. Enter the Gateway Hostname or IP Address. In this example since the card is on the same machine as the 3CX Phone System installation we will enter 127.0.0.1 or the IP address of the computer. The default gateway port that the Sangoma is configured with is 5066. All other options are pre-configured.

  5. 2 ports are configured here – 10000 and 10001. Click next to continue.

    Configure an optional outbound rule for outbound calls. Click on Finish to complete the setup.

  6. Click on the Generate Config file button. A configuration file “Sangoma_A102_E1_cfg” will be created. Save this on the desktop. This file will be used to generate the full configuration into the Sangoma Card.

Importing the 3CX Configuration File into the Netborder Express

  1. First get the licence files provided by Sangoma (netborder-express-gateway-license, netborder-express-gateway-license.txt.sig) and paste them in the path where Netborder was installed. Default: C:\Program Files\Netborder\Express\Gateway\config

  2. Click on Start, All Programs, Netborder Express Gateway, Gateway Manager. The Netborder Express main screen will be displayed.

  3. Click on Configuration, Provisioning and in the “Provisioning XML Input File” field Browse to the file “Sangoma_A102_E1_cfg” generated previously from the 3CX Phone System Management console. Click on the “Generate Configuration” button.

  4. After the procedure is complete, you should see a message box indicating that the configuration was successfully created. At this point the Sangoma Card has all the files it needs to connect to 3CX Phone System.

    Navigate to the Status and Controls tab, and in the Controls tab click on the button 'Start Gateway'. The Gateway will be started and the new configuration files will be loaded into the Netborder express gateway.

Note: At the bottom right of the screen there is an indicator stating “Configuration Synched”. This means that the configuration added to the Gateway is synchronized and that the Gateway has reloaded all the configuration files.

Congratulations: You have successfully configured the Sangoma A102 ISDN Gateway with 3CX.

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