Configuring the Brooktrout TR1034 Fax Board

Cypress enables customers to fax documents at high speeds over high-bandwidth connections, such as ISDN and T1, by supporting the Brooktrout TR1034 fax board. This topic identifies the telephony information you need to collect to allow you to configure the driver and firmware for this Brooktrout board installed on the Cypress server and provides the steps required to configure the board.

To configure the Brooktrout fax board

  1. Contact the telephone company that provides the PRI-T1 (phone line) service and gather the information in this table:

 

Information

United States (example)

Europe (example)

Signaling Type

T1-RBS

T1-PRI

E1

Frame Mode

Extended Super Frame (recommended by ASG)

Super Frame D4

CRC-4 Multiframing (recommended by ASG)

Single Frame

Line Coding

B8Z8 (recommended by ASG)

AMI

HOB3

Clock Master

Network/telco master (strongly recommended by ASG)

Brooktrout board master

N/A

Compatible Switch Type

ATT #4 ess

ATT #5 ess

Northern Telecom DMS-1001

N/A

Compatible Variant Type

ATT PUB 41449

Northern Telecom NIS 8211-1

PRI only Euro ISDN
  1. Power off the Cypress server before you perform the remaining steps.
  2. Set the gray dial on the fax board to 2. If you are adding multiple boards to one server, set each board to a different number (e.g., 3, 4, and 5).
  3. Install the board(s) in the server slots.
  4. Connect the T1 lines to the boards.
  5. Power up and boot the server.

When the server starts, the Windows Add Hardware wizard should display automatically.

If this wizard does not display, start it by clicking the Add Hardware icon in the Windows control panel. If you start the Add Hardware wizard yourself, you must click the Next> button so that Windows can detect the new hardware. If Windows still does not find the hardware, click Next> again to display a dialog window where you can select the fax board.
  1. When the Add Hardware wizard prompts you for a driver, click the Have Disk... button. When the Install from Disk... dialog appears, click Browse... and browse to the Drivers directory of the zip file that Cypress supplied.
  2. Click Next> to install the driver.
The Wizard may prompt you for additional configuration information. See your network administrator if you are uncertain about how to configure the board for your system.
  1. After the wizard finishes loading the driver, click Finish to complete the installation.
  2. Copy the configuration and firmware files and subdirectories in the Server directory of the zip file into your Cypress\Server\Brooktrout directory.
  3. Navigate to the Config subdirectory, and double-click the configtool.exe icon to start Brooktrout’s configuration application.
  4. Select the path for the Brooktrout configuration and firmware files in the Brooktrout Configuration Tool - Preferences dialog.

  1. Configure this application according to your system’s requirements. If you have any questions, contact ASG Customer Support or your network administrator.

This example illustrates global settings:

This example illustrates Port A settings:

  1. When you finish configuring Brooktrout, create a Cypress.Fax device and select bt_1034 from the Device DLL drop-down list. For more information on creating a Cypress.Fax device, see Creating a Fax Device.
  2. Open the Windows Control Panel and double-click the Modem and Phone Options icon to configure the server’s Windows dialing rules. Enter the local area code and any other necessary parameters, such as outside line access or 10-digit dialing rules.
  3. Test the final configuration by printing documents to the new Cypress.Fax device using the Cypress Windows capture driver. Open the Cypress Enterprise Output Manager to monitor progress, and verify that the fax was delivered to the device.