FXO voice quality

alex goshtaei · ‎08-22-2008

Hi All,

we are using CME with 4FXO card. the voice quality is not good and it is statically in the background and the voice of caller from outside is like a robot. what parameters should I tune to fix this problem?

any suggestion will be very appreciated.

Alex

bgrunewald · ‎08-23-2008

Plug a regular analog telephone into the FXO ports and see what the voice quality is like. VoIP systems are pretty immune to static, so it sounds like a line quality issue on the Telco side.

pcameron · ‎08-24-2008

By any chance have you configured 'compand-type a-law' on the FXO ports ?

If you have , take it out using the 'default compand-type' command.

Analogue voice ports take incoming audio and pass it through a PCM codec device. The default output of this codec uses ulaw coding to pass digitised audio to the DSP.

If you override this with the compand command, the DSP is still expecting ulaw so you have a alaw/ulaw mismatch, and the classic symptoms of this are static noise and distortion.

You can check here and compare -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk698/technologies_white_paper09186a00801545e4.shtml#stat

This is a common mistake - only digital voice ports such a ISDN BRI/PRI/CAS need the companding set. E1's and T1 default to alaw and ulaw respectively, it is normally only ISDN BRI that needs to the manually configured as a-law. Analogue lines should be left as default.