The Sangoma A200 and REMORA system is the latest in Sangoma's range of Advanced Flexible Telecommunications (AFT) hardware, designed for optimum support of analog voice traffic.

The A200 and REMORA cards support up a mixture of up to 24 FXO or FXS ports. A single PCI slot hosts the connection to the PC for all ports, ensuring synchronized clocking for all channels. The base AFT architecture is shared with Sangoma's A101, A102 and A104 cards to guarantee high performance, 3.3V/5V operation and exceptional PCI compatibility. As your installation grows above 4 ports, you simply add more REMORA daughterboards to your system with the required FXO or FXS modules. These boards sit in place of a PCI board, but do not use the PCI slot.

The Sangoma AFT series of telephony cards are field upgradeable to take advantage of hardware and software improvements as they become available. Also, the A201 supports Sangoma's echo cancellation and voice enhancement daughterboard.

Architecture

The A200 consists of a REMORA daughterboard mounted on an AFT PCI card. The REMORA card has two sockets, each of which accept either an FXO-2 or FXS-2 module, supporting two FXO or FXS ports respectively.

Up to five additional REMORA daughterboards can be mounted in empty slots in the PC chassis adjacent to the A200 assembly, and connected to the A200 via a backplane bus connector, as pictured to the right.

Telephonyware offers the Sangoma A200 series in easy to understand bundles that come with everything needed for the number of ports ordered, including all the necessary REMORA cards and bus connectors. The naming convention for this product is A2XXYY:

• XX — represents the number of FXS (analog telephone interface) moduless installed. Each FXS module has two analog telephone ports.
• XX — represents the number of FXO (analog PSTN line interface) modules installed. Each FXO module has two analog PSTN line ports.

Models that are bundled with the hardware echo cancellation module have D at the end of the model number. The echo cancellation module is an additional $299.00, and only one module is required for each 24 port system.

Technical Specifications

• From 2 to 24 FXO or FXS ports
• Full support for Asterisk, Yate and OPAL, as well as other open source and priopretary PBX/IVR/VoIP platforms
• Single synchronous PCI interface for up to 24 FXO/FXS ports
• Four RJ11/4 ports per REMORA card
• 32-bit bus-mastering DMA for minimum host processor intervention
• Auto-sensing compatibility for 5V and 3.3V PCI bus operation
• Full PCI 2.2 compliance — guaranteed compatible with all commercially available motherboards
• Proper IRQ sharing
• Downloadable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) programming with multiple operating modes — field upgradable
• Power: 800mA peak, operational 300mA maximum at 3.3V/5V
• Temperature Range: 0 - 50C
• Industry-leading five year warranty

Physical Characteristics

• 2U Form Factor (120mm x 55mm for use in restricted chassis)
• Full height and 2U brackets both included

Optional DSP Daughtercard (A200D)

• G.168-2002 echo cancellation in hardware.
• 1024 taps/128ms tail per channel on all channel densities.
• DTMF decoding and tone recognition
• Voice quality enhancement
  • Octastic Music Protection
  • Acoustic Echo Control
  • Adaptive Noise Reduction

Wiring Connections

The A200 and Remora cards incorporate four 4-pin RJ11 narrow jacks, like those used between a telephone handset and base. Each A200/Remora is shipped with one 6 foot cables with a narrow RJ11/4 plug at one end and a standard RJ11/6 plug at the other end for each port.

For customers needing to hardwire an A200 installation, please contact us about a kit consisting of 24 RJ11/4 plugs and a crimping tool.

Having Trouble Piecing It Together?

We understand that this product is has some complicated configurations, and would love to help you select the right configuration for your needs. Feel free to contact us, or even chat to us live via the "live assistance" button on the right of the page for additional help. In the drop-down box below, we have listed the most common configurations for none to four FXO or FXS ports. You can purchase the A200 in the bundles shown in the drop down list below.