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Table of Contents
Summary Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 3
Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................... 5
List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................... 27
List of Tables ................................................................................................................................................ 29
About this guide ........................................................................................................................................... 30
Audience............................................................................................................................................................... 30
How to read this guide ......................................................................................................................................... 30
Structure............................................................................................................................................................... 31
Precautions ........................................................................................................................................................... 34
Typographical conventions used in this document................................................................................................ 34
General conventions .......................................................................................................................................34
Mouse conventions .........................................................................................................................................36
Service and support ...............................................................................................................................................36
Patton support headquarters in the USA .........................................................................................................36
Alternate Patton support for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) ..........................................................36
Warranty Service and Returned Merchandise Authorizations (RMAs)...................................................................37
Warranty coverage ..........................................................................................................................................37
Returns for credit ......................................................................................................................................37
Return for credit policy .............................................................................................................................37
RMA numbers ................................................................................................................................................37
Shipping instructions ................................................................................................................................37
1 System overview ............................................................................................................................................ 38
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................39
SmartWare embedded software .............................................................................................................................40
Applications...........................................................................................................................................................41
Carrier networks .............................................................................................................................................41
Enterprise networks ........................................................................................................................................42
LAN telephony ...............................................................................................................................................43
2 Configuration concepts ................................................................................................................................. 44
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................45
Contexts and Gateways..........................................................................................................................................46
Context ...........................................................................................................................................................46
Gateway ..........................................................................................................................................................46
Interfaces, Ports, and Bindings...............................................................................................................................47
Interfaces ........................................................................................................................................................47
Ports and circuits ............................................................................................................................................47
Bindings ..........................................................................................................................................................47
Profiles and Use commands...................................................................................................................................48
Profiles ............................................................................................................................................................48
Use Commands ..............................................................................................................................................48