Table of Contents
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Connecting the MGC+100 to the LAN Network . . . . . . . . 2-19
Connecting the MGC+100 to the Operator Workstation
(PC) Directly via RS-232 (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
Connecting the MGC+100 to the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
MPI-4/8 Hardware Installation for the MGC+100 . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
To install the MPI-4/8 Network Interface Module: . . . . . . 2-22
MGC+50 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
Unpacking and Positioning the MGC+50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
Mounting the MGC+50 on a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28
Connecting and Setting Up the MGC+50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32
MGC+50 Dongle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32
Connecting to the Power Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33
Connecting the MGC+50 to the LAN Network . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Connecting the MGC+50 to the Operator Workstation (PC)
Directly via RS-232 (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Connecting the MGC+50 to the PSTN Network . . . . . . . . 2-35
Connecting the MGC+50 to the H.323 Network . . . . . . . . 2-36
MPI-4/8 Hardware Installation for the MGC+50 . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37
Compact Flash Memory Use on the MGC+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40
Rescue Disk (pSOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Swapping the Operating System (OS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-42
MGC+ Software Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
Initial ReadiConvene IAM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
First Entry MGC+ Control Unit (CU) IP Configuration . . . . . 2-43
Method 1 - Using a Compact Flash with the Updated LAN.CFG
File: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
Method 2 - Using a Cross-over Cable and a Laptop to Connect
to the MCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46
Method 3 - Defining the IP address using a Keyboard and
Mouse: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
Formatting and Creating a New Compact Flash Boot File . . . . . . . 2-50
Clocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52
System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1Information Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
MGC+ Manager Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7