CX 2000 board features

CX 2000 boards are station interfaces for Enterprise markets. They provide analog interfaces to analog devices such as telephones, fax machines, and modems within a private network. They can be used to build such systems as private branch exchanges, automatic call distributors, and IP-PBXs.

In a system containing CX 2000 boards, any communication with the public network is performed by trunk interface boards. CX 2000 boards communicate with these boards over the H.100 bus.

Refer to www.dialogic.com/declarations/default.htm for a list of available CX 2000 board configurations, for a list of countries where Dialogic has obtained approval for the CX 2000 board, and for product updates.

CX 2000 boards have sufficient on-board DSP resources for simple, low-level call control functions. More complex, resource-intensive operations (such as voice play or record functions) must be performed by other boards.

The CX 2000-32 board supports up to 32 stations and provides high ring capacity. It has the following limitations:

CX 2000 boards offer a standard set of station call control features. Functions such as playing, recording, and conferencing are performed by the trunk interface boards or other resource boards in the system.

The following table summarizes the CX 2000 board features:

Chassis type

PCI

Number of ports

32

CT bus

H.100

Call center applications

Supported

PBX applications

Supported

Detect on/off hook

Supported

Detect flash-hook

Supported

DTMF detection

Supported

DTMF generation

Supported

Dial tone

Supported

Call progress tones

Supported

CT bus switching API

Supported

Heart beat diagnostic

Supported

Transmit gain

Supported

Receive gain

Supported

Temperature sensors

Supported

On premise extensions

Supported

Off premise extensions

Not supported

Wiring between buildings

Not supported

The CX 2000 board is limited to inside cabling, due to both heat and safety power cross certification.

Internal ringing supply

Not supported

Easy chassis selection

Not supported

Selecting a PCI chassis with proper air flow is critical for multiple CX 2000-32 boards to operate. For more information, refer to Selecting a PCI chassis.


The CX 2000 fully supports the H.100 bus specification. Switching is implemented with the T8100A chip. The T8100A offers full support for the H.100 bus within the H.100 architecture providing access to all 4096 slots on the bus.

On the boards, switch connections are allowed for up to 128 full duplex connections between local devices and the bus. Non-blocking switch connections are allowed between local devices.

Power supply

To provide power for talk battery and for ringing station telephones (if necessary), an external power supply is required. NMS Communications supplies a rack mount power supply chassis that can contain up to four interchangeable supply modules. Alternatively, you can obtain a power supply from another source. You can connect the power supply to each board.

For more information on choosing and connecting power supplies, refer to Using the NMS rack mount power supply chassis.

Developer's cable kit

To make connecting telephones to CX 2000 boards easier, a developer's cable kit is available. It consists of the following components:

For more information about the developer's cable kit, refer to Connecting to station telephones.