Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express System Administrator Guide - Configuring Fax Relay [Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express]

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Configuring Fax Relay

Contents

Prerequisites for Fax Relay

Restrictions for Fax Relay

Information About Fax Relay

Fax Relay and Equipment

Feature Design of Cisco Fax Relay

Supported Gateways, Modules, and Voice Interface Cards for Fax Relay

How to Configure Fax Relay

SCCP: Configuring Fax Relay

Verifying and Troubleshooting Fax Relay Configuration

Configuration Examples for Fax Relay

Fax Relay: Example

Additional References

Related Documents

Technical Assistance

Feature Information for Fax Relay

Configuring Fax Relay

Last Updated: September 21, 2011

This module describes how to enable Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) Fax Relay for analog foreign exchange service (FXS) ports under the control of Cisco Unified CME.

Finding Feature Information in This Module

Your Cisco Unified CME version may not support all of the features documented in this module. For a list of the versions in which each feature is supported, see the "Feature Information for Fax Relay" section.

Contents

•Prerequisites for Fax Relay

•Restrictions for Fax Relay

•Information About Fax Relay

•How to Configure Fax Relay

•Configuration Examples for Fax Relay

•Additional References

•Feature Information for Fax Relay

Prerequisites for Fax Relay

•Cisco Unified CME 4.0(3) or a later version.

•If your voice gateway is a separate router than the Cisco Unified CME router, an IP voice image of Cisco IOS Release 12.4(11)T or later is required.

•SCCP Telephony Control (STC) application is enabled.

Note•For Cisco Unified CME versions before Cisco Unified CME 4.0(3), there are two manually-controlled options for setting up facsimiles:
–Fax Gateway Protocol

Configure the Cisco VG224, FXS port, or analog telephone adaptor (ATA) to use H.323 or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) with a specific fax relay protocol. See the Cisco IOS Fax, Modem, and Text Support over IP Application Guide.

–G.711 Fax Pass-Through with SCCP

This is the default setup for facsimile on the Cisco VG224 and FXS ports before Cisco Unified CME 4.0(3). See the Cisco IOS Fax, Modem, and Text Support over IP Application Guide.

Restrictions for Fax Relay

•RFC2833 dual tone multifrequency (DTMF) digit relay under Cisco Unified CME for SCCP FXS ports is not supported.

•SCCP FXS ports under Cisco Unified CME control do not natively support RFC2833 DTMF-relay. However, Cisco Unified CME can support conversion of DTMF digits to and from RFC2833 DTMF-relay on its H323 and SIP interfaces when used with SCCP-controlled FXS ports.

•Cisco Fax Relay is only supported on those Cisco IOS gateways and network modules listed in Table 59, Supported Gateways, Modules, and VICs for Fax Relay.

Information About Fax Relay

To configure the fax relay feature, you should understand the following concepts:

•Fax Relay and Equipment

•Feature Design of Cisco Fax Relay

Fax Relay and Equipment

•The fax relay feature supports the use of existing customer premises equipment (CPE) in voice networks by allowing legacy analog phones attached to a Cisco IOS gateway to be controlled by Cisco Unified CME, and by providing feature interoperability between analog and IP endpoints.

•The voice gateway can be the same router that is being used for Cisco Unified CME or it may be a separate router (for example, the Cisco VG224).

•The fax relay feature facilitates replacement of the PSTN time-division multiplexing (TDM) infrastructure with VoIP.

Feature Design of Cisco Fax Relay

Cisco Fax Relay is a proprietary fax relay implementation that uses Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) to transport fax data. It is the default fax relay type on Cisco voice gateways and the only supported fax option for Cisco Unified CME 4.0(3) and later versions. The fax relay feature provides enhanced supplementary feature capability on analog ports connected to a Cisco integrated services router (ISR) or Cisco VG224 analog gateway. Calls through the analog FXS ports are controlled by the Cisco Unified CME system.

Before the introduction of SCCP-enhanced features, SCCP gateways supported fax pass-through only. SCCP-enhanced features add support for Cisco Fax Relay and Super Group 3 (SG3) to G3 fax relay. This feature allows the fax stream between two SG3 fax machines to negotiate down to G3 speeds (less than 14.4 kbps) allowing SG3 fax machines to interoperate over fax relay with G3 fax machines.

The SCCP telephony control (STC) application on the Cisco voice gateway presents the locally attached analog telephones as individual endpoints to the call-control system, which allows the analog phones to be controlled in the same way as IP phones. With this capability, gateway-attached endpoints share the same telephony features that are available on IP phones directly connected to Cisco Unified CME. SCCP-enhanced features provide analog endpoint to analog endpoint interoperability within the IP telephony network.

Figure 40 shows a multisite deployment of the fax relay feature in a Cisco Unified CME topology.

Figure 40 Cisco Unified CME Fax Relay Deployment

For information on configuring gateway-controlled fax relay features, see the "How to Configure Fax Relay" section.

Supported Gateways, Modules, and Voice Interface Cards for Fax Relay

Table 59 lists supported gateways, modules, and voice interface cards (VICs).

Table 59 Supported Gateways, Modules, and VICs for Fax Relay

Gateways

Extension Modules

Network Modules and Expansion Modules

VICs

•Cisco 2801

•Cisco 2811

•Cisco 2821

•Cisco 2851

•Cisco 3825

•Cisco 3845

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•NM-HD-1V

•NM-HD-2V

•NM-HD-2VE

•VIC2-2FXS

•VIC-4FXS/DID

•VIC2-2BRI-NT/TE

•Cisco 2801

•Cisco 2821

•Cisco 2851

•Cisco 3825

•Cisco 3845

•EVM-HD

•EVM-HD-8FXS/DID

•EM-3FXS/4FXO

•EM-HDA-8FXS

•EM-4BRI-NT/TE

—

•Cisco 2801

•Cisco 2811

•Cisco 2821

•Cisco 2851

•Cisco 3825

•Cisco 3845

—

•NM-HDV2

•NM-HDV2-1T1/E1

•NM-HDV2-2T1/E1

•VIC2-2FXS

•VIC-4FXS/DID

•VIC2-2BRI-NT/TE

•Cisco VG 224

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How to Configure Fax Relay

This section contains the following tasks:

•SCCP: Configuring Fax Relay (required)

•Verifying and Troubleshooting Fax Relay Configuration (optional)

SCCP: Configuring Fax Relay

To configure the fax relay features on Cisco Unified CME, perform the following steps.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. voice service voip

4. fax protocol cisco

5. fax-relay sg3-to-g3

6. exit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

enable
Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

•Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal
Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

voice service voip
Example:

Router(config)# voice service voip

Enters voice service configuration mode and specifies VoIP encapsulation.

Step 4

fax protocol cisco
Example:

Router(config-voi-serv)# fax protocol cisco

Specifies the Cisco-proprietary fax protocol as the fax protocol for SCCP analog endpoints.

•This command is enabled by default.

•This is the only supported option for Cisco Unified CME 4.0(3) and later versions.

Step 5

fax-relay sg3-to-g3
Example:

Router(config-voi-serv)# fax relay sg3-to-g3

(Optional) Enables the fax stream between two SG3 fax machines to negotiate down to G3 speeds.

Step 6

exit
Example:

Router(config-voi-serv)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Verifying and Troubleshooting Fax Relay Configuration

To verify the configuration of Cisco Fax Relay, use the show-running config command. Sample output is located in the "Configuration Examples for Fax Relay" section.

Use the following commands to verify and troubleshoot SCCP gateway-controlled Fax Relay:

•show voice call summary—Displays fax relay voice port settings.

•show voice dsp—Displays fax relay digital signal processor (DSP) channel status.

•debug voip application stcapp all— Displays SCCP telephony control (STC) application fax relay information.

•debug voip dsm all—Displays fax relay DSP stream manager (DSM) messages.

•debug voip dsmp all—Displays fax relay distributed stream media processor (DSMP) messages.

•debug voip hpi all—Displays gateway DSP fax relay information on RTP packet events.

•debug voip vtsp all—Displays gateway voice telephony service provider (VTSP) debugging information for fax calls.

Note For more information on these and other commands, see the Cisco IOS Voice Command Reference, Cisco IOS Debug Command Reference, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express Command Reference, and Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference.

Configuration Examples for Fax Relay

This section contains the following example:

•Fax Relay: Example

Fax Relay: Example

voice service voip
fax-relay sg3-to-g3

ephone-dn 44
number 1234
name fax machine

ephone 33
mac-address 1111.2222.3333
button 1:44
type anl

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to Cisco Fax Relay.

Related Documents

Related Topic

Document Title

Cisco Unified CME configuration

•Cisco Unified CME Command Reference

•Cisco Unified CME Documentation Roadmap

Cisco IOS commands

•Cisco IOS Voice Command Reference

•Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4T Command References

Cisco IOS configuration

•Cisco IOS Voice Configuration Library

•Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4T Configuration Guides

Cisco VG224 Analog Phone Gateway

•Supplementary Services Features for FXS Ports on Cisco IOS Voice Gateways Configuration Guide

•Cisco VG224 Voice Gateway Software Configuration Guide

Phone documentation for Cisco Unified CME

•User Documentation for Cisco Unified IP Phones

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Feature Information for Fax Relay

Table 60 lists the features in this module and enhancements to the features by version.

To determine the correct Cisco IOS release to support a specific Cisco Unified CME version, see the Cisco Unified CME and Cisco IOS Software Version Compatibility Matrix at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/requirements/guide/33matrix.htm.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and software image support. Cisco Feature Navigator enables you to determine which Cisco IOS software images support a specific software release, feature set, or platform. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Note Table 60 lists the Cisco Unified CME version that introduced support for a given feature. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent versions of Cisco Unified CME software also support that feature.

Table 60 Feature Information for Cisco Fax Relay

Feature Name

Cisco Unified CME Version

Feature Information

Fax Relay

4.0(3)

Enables Fax Relay on analog FXS ports on Cisco IOS voice gateways under the control of Cisco Unified CME.