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Product Description
Event Handling Functionality
Provides the ability to handle and process events, including the ability to disable and enable
events and to retrieve event information. See Chapter4, “Event Handling” for more
information.
Global Call Alarm Management System (GCAMS)
Provides the ability to manage alarms. GCAMS provides Global Call applications with the
ability to receive extensive alarm information that can be used to troubleshoot line problems.
See Chapter8, “Alarm Handling” for more information.
Real Time Configuration Management (RTCM)
Allows the modification of call control and protocol elements in real time, providing a single
common user interface for configuration management. See Chapter9, “Real Time
Configuration Management” for more information.
Global Call Service Request (GCSR)
Enables an application to send a request for a service to a remote device. Examples of the types
of services that this feature supports are device registration, channel setup, call setup,
information requests, or other kinds of requests that need to be made between two devices
across the network. See Chapter 10, “Handling Service Requests” for more information.
Library Information Functions
Enables an application to get information about the call control libraries being used. See the
Global Call API Library Reference for more information about these functions.
Debugging Facilities
Global Call provides powerful debugging capabilities for troubleshooting protocol-related
problems, including the ability to generate a detailed log file. See the appropriate Global Call
Technology Guide for information on the debugging facilities available when using Global
Call with each technology.
1.3 Global Call Architecture
The Global Call development software architecture is based on the Intel® Dialogic® architecture
that supports Host Media Processing (HMP) software and DM3 hardware. The architecture is
described in the following topics:
Overview
Global Call API
1.3.1 Overview
Figure 1 shows a system-level view of the Global Call architecture for IP technology and Figure2
shows the Global Call architecture for E1/T1 and ISDN technologies on DM3 hardware.