Dialogic Fax Machine 6.2 User manual

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Dialogic® Brooktrout® Fax Products SDK

Developer Guide

Release 6.2

November 2009 931-132-06

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Bfv API Reference Manual Volumes 1 - 6

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 1

Administration, Management,

and Configuration

Bfv API Overview

Administration and Initialization

Firmware

Configuration, Status and Monitoring

Debugging, Error Handling and Return Values

Miscellaneous Functions

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 2

Bfv-Level Call Control and Call Switching

Bfv API Overview

Call Control Overview

Bfv-Level Call Control

Dia ling D atab ase Func ti ons

Data Structure s

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 3

Media Processing

Bfv API Overview

Signal Generation and Detection

Voice Play/Record

Infopkt File Functions

Au dio Conf er encin g

Audio Conferencing Functions

Audio Conferencing Programming Examples

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 4

Fax Processing

Bfv API Overview

Fax Overview

Fax Functions

TIFF-F Files Functions

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 5

BSMI-Level Call Control and Call Switching

Bfv API Overview

BOSTON Simple Message Interface (BSMI)

BSMI General Message Structure

R2 Signaling Protocol with BSMI

LEC Protocols with BSMI

Host to Module (L4L3m) Messages

Module to Host (L3L4m) Messages

B-Channel and D-Channel Maintenance

Bfv API Reference Manual

Volume 6

Appendices

App A - Configuration Files

App B - Bfv API Structures

App C - Hangup Codes

App D - BSMI and ISDN Cause Codes

App E - Infopkt Parameter Values

App F - Call Progress Notes

App G - Country-Specific Parameter Files

App H - Deprecated and Unsupported

Functionalit

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Chapter 1 – About this Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Operating System Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Manual Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Updated Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 2 – Introduction to the Dialogic® Brooktrout®

Bfv API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

This chapter describes the Dialogic® Brooktrout® Bfv API and its

capabilities.

Bfv API and Associated Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Bfv API Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Administration, Management, and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Administration and Initialization Functions and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Firmware Functions and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Configuration Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Module Status and Monitoring Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Debugging, Error Handling, and Return Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Miscellaneous Functions and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Call Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Bfv Call Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Contents

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BSMI-Level Call Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Media Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Signal Generation and Tone Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Voice Record and Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Fax Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

File Format Manipulation Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Infopkt Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Fax Infopkt Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 3 – Developing Applications Using the Bfv API. . . . . . . . 56

This chapter describes how to develop applications with Brooktrout Fax

Software.

Developing a Voice Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Recording and Playing Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Recording Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Playing Back the Voice Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using Prompt Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the mkprompt Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a New Prompt File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Updating an Existing Prompt File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Developing a Fax Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Sending and Receiving a Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Sending a Fax from One Channel to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Sending a Fax to a Channel from an External Fax Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using Bfv API Fax Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using High- and Low-Level Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Sending a Fax Using Function Calls for Noninfopkt-Formatted Raw G3 Files . . . . 70

Receiving a Fax Using Function Calls for Noninfopkt-Formatted Raw G3 Files . . . 73

Sending a Fax Using Calls for TIFF-F Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Receiving a Fax Using Calls for TIFF-F Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Receiving and Storing a Fax in MMR or MR Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Accessing an Infopkt Stream from an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Sending a TIFF-F Fax File Within an Infopkt Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Combining Data on a Single Page Using TIFF-F Fax Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Accessing a TIFF-F File from an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Determining Fax Status Information from an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 4 – Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

This chapter describes how to use the debugging tools.

Bfv API Debug Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

BfvDataFSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

BfvLineDumpStructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Dump History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Invoking Dump History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Interpreting the Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Status Header Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Event Logging Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Event Logging Line Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Parsed Command Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Utility Programs for Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

btver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

connlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

feature -q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

modinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

shoparam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

BSMI Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

BSMI Message Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Running a Layer 2 Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Understanding Trace Hexadecimal Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

VTTY Tracing Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

VTTY Console Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

VTTY Tracer GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Call Tracer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Configuration File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 5 – Sample Applications and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

This chapter describes the sample applications and utilities that come as

part of the Dialogic® Brooktrout® SDK.

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boardmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

btver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

connlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

csend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

deact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

debug_control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

decode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

dfax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

divert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

dlfax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

dstrip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

eccllvoice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

faxhl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

faxll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

faxml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

faxp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

faxpml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

firmload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

ipstrip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

ivr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

mkdcx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

mkinfopk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

mkprompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

mktiff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

modinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

playp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

rtp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

shoparam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

telreset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

telsave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

tfax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

tiffdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

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tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

transferll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

trombone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

tstrip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

voiceraw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Compiling Sample Applications Using Microsoft® Developer Studio Project Files . . . . . . 172

Using Brooktrout Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Compiling Sample Applications Using Makefiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Combining the Sample Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Compatibility for Compiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Chapter 6 – Transferring Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

This chapter describes transferring calls using the Bfv API-level and

BSMI-level call control functionality.

Making Call Transfers Using Bfv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Making Hookflash Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Using Bfv Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Using BSMI Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Making Two B-Channel Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Making Call Transfers Using QSIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

ISDN QSIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Supplementary Services Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Making Call Transfers Using Active Redirection (Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Making Explicit Call Transfers (ECT) With E1 ISDN and BRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Making Two-Channel Call Transfers (Tromboning) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Setting up the Two-Channel Call Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Connecting Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Actions During a Two-Channel Call Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Performing Echo Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Playing Back Voice Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Terminating the Two-Channel Call Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Disconnecting Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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Transferring Calls Using Release Link Trunk Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Using Bfv Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Using BSMI Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Call Control Sequence Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Non-RLT Call Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

RLT Call Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Sample Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Placing Calls on Hold Using BSMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Chapter 7 – Managing Fax and Voice over IP Sessions . . . . . . . 214

This chapter describes how to develop applications that use the internet

for fax and voice media.

Managing Calls Using IP Telephony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding IP Call Control using the Bfv API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Outgoing IP Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Incoming IP Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Understanding SIP Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Using a SIP Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Verifying Dialed Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Sample INVITE Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Call Progress Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Understanding H.323 Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Using H.323 Address Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Failover Based on Telephony Cause Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Common Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Failover Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Known Failures From Various Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

H.323 and SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

SIP to Q.931 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Processing Media Using the T.38 Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Sending and Receiving Faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Configuring T.38, RTP and IP Call Control Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Understanding the SIP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

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Introduction to the SIP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Overview of SIP Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Overview of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Third Party IP Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Integrating Bfv IP Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Disable ECC Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

SR140 Software-Based Integration - Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

TR1034 Board-Based Integration - Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Call Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Inbound Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Outbound Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Chapter 8 – Robbed Bit Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

This chapter describes robbed bit signaling as used with BSMI-level call

control.

General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Timer Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Timing Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Wink Start & Delay Dial Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Wink Start with Feature Group B & D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Immediate Start/Fixed Pause Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Incoming Call Processing (Immediate Start) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Outgoing Call Processing (Fixed Pause Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Ground Start Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

FXO Ground Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

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Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

FXS Ground Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Loop Start Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

FXO Loop Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

FXS Loop Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Incoming Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Outgoing Call Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Call Teardown Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Chapter 9 – ISDN Call Processing and Management. . . . . . . . . . 316

This chapter describes ISDN call processing using BSMI-level call

control.

ISDN Call Processing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Making an ISDN Incoming Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Making an ISDN Outgoing Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

ISDN Overlapped Dialing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

ISDN Call Clearing - Initiated by Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

ISDN Call Clearing - Initiated by Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Translating Q.931 to Simple Message Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using the overlap_rcv feature of L4L3mENABLE_PROTOCOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

What is Overlap Receive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

BSMI Reference Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

How Overlap Receive Mode Changes Call Control Events Presentation . . . . . . . . . . 330

Q.921/Q.931 Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Chapter 10 – Using the BSMI R2 Signaling Capability. . . . . . . . . 336

This chapter describes R2 signaling as used with BSMI-level call control.

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CPE Signaling Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Enabling the R2 Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Protocol Parameter Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Forward Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Backward Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

R2 Call Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Outbound Call Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Inbound Call Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Call Tear Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Channel Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Chapter 11 – Packaging Your Application for Windows®. . . . . . 364

This chapter describes how to package Dialogic® Brooktrout® software

so that you can deliver it to your customers as part of your product.

Package Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Installing Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Installing Virtual Modules (SR140) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Installing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Installing the Brooktrout SDK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

About the Merge Module Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Installing the Merge Module Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Integrating the Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

About Plug and Play Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Plug and Play Installation Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Structure of the Brooktrout PnP Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

About the INF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

About the Dialogic® Brooktrout® Plug and Play Co-Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

About the Device Property Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Modifying Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

User-Defined Configuration File (btcall.cfg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Call Control (callctrl.cfg) Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Including the Brooktrout Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Downloading Firmware Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Removing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

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Removing the Plug and Play Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

For Earlier Versions (Prior to 5.2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

For Version 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Appendix A – G3 Legacy Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

This appendix describes legacy utilities that help manipulate raw G3 fax

files.

ASCII to Fax Conversion Utility (asctog3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Cut and Paste Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Cut Utility (g3chop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Paste Utility (g3combin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Epson to Fax Conversion Utility (epstog3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Fax Display and Edit Utility: Supershow (ss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

G3 Conversion Utility (g3cvt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Print Utility (p) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Appendix B – Recompiling On Linux Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

This appendix provides instructions for recompiling the Boston driver to

support new kernel patches.

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

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About this Publication

Introduction

The Dialogic® Brooktrout® Fax Products SDK Developer Guide describes

the Bfv API used to create applications to control the features of the

Dialogic® Brooktrout® TR1034® Fax Boards, Dialogic® Brooktrout®

TruFax® Fax Boards, and the Dialogic® Brooktrout® SR140 Fax Software.

The manual gives information about Call Transfer, Automatic Speech

Recognition, IP functionality, and BSMI functionality. Finally, it explains

how one can include and package software supporting Brooktrout Fax

Boards or Dialogic® Brooktrout® SR140 Fax Software in your product.

The manual contains the following chapters:

 Chapters 1 through 4 provide information about:

 The structure of the BFv API

 How to develop applications using the Bfv API

 Debugging

 Sample applications

 Chapters 5 through 10 describe some advanced topics such as:

 Call Transfer

 Automatic Speech Recognition

 Internet Fax Sessions

 Robbed bit signaling

 ISDN protocols

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 R2 signaling

 Chapter 11 describes how to package software supporting

Brooktrout software or SR140 Fax in your product.

 Appendix A provides instructions for a set of legacy G3 utility

programs.

 Appendix B provides instructions for recompiling the Boston

driver to support new kernel patches.

 A glossary gives definitions for some of the terms used in the

manual.

A copy of this manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format is installed in the

Documents directory on the Brooktrout TR1034/SR140/TruFax® SDK

CD-ROM.

Dialogic Fax Machine 6.2, 6.2 User manual

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