Cornell University Telephony   (CUTel) Deployment Guide

The CUTel Demo is a set of applications built off of Cornell University's CNRG group's ITX Java Libraries. This document describes how to setup a CUTel system where CUTel application can be used to interact with each other, other telephony devices, as well as future applications built upon the ITX Java Libraries.

Directory Service

A directory service must be setup as an user registration database so that CUTel applications and users can locate each other in the system. The following step must be followed to setup a directory service:

• Install BIND
• Set up BIND for use with ITX
• Add users to the database, users can be added to the database through the CUPS application only an administrator is set up.

CUPS

The Cornell University Phone Simulator (CUPS) is a fundamental piece in CUTel system, to install CUPS, download  the CUTel demo below and run the installation, when prompted, select either "Typical Installation" or "Custom Installation". After a reboot, CUPS will be available in the Start Menu.

Before running CUPS however, take the following steps so that CUPS can find the Directory Service set up in the previous step:

• Go to the directory which CUPS is installed, usually "C:\Program Files\CNRG\CU Telephony\cups"
• Open the resolv.conf file in that directory in a text editor
• modify the IP addresses in the resolv.conf file so that they represent the IP addresses of the primary and secondary BIND servers set up above
• Save the resolv.conf file in the same directory

Additionally, it is necessary to have the latest version of the Microsoft Java VM installed on the target desktop. A full-duplex sound card must also be available.

To find help for using CUPS, press F1.

SPOT

The Slide Presentation Over Telephony application is another application which uses the ITX Java Libraries, like CUPS, it can be installed either through the "Custom Installation" or the "Typical Installation" from the CUTel demo. Follow the same steps as above to setup the resolv.conf file after installation to properly run SPOT. In order to run the SPOT server application, it is necessary to add user spotsrv, password spotsrv to the Directory Service. For more information about SPOT, check out the "docs\readme.html" file in the directory SPOT is installed, usually "C:\Program Files\CNRG\CU Telephony\spot".

Gateway

A gateway is a PC that is able to translate between IP packets and voice on the PSTN (telephone network). A gateway is necessary if one wishes to deploy the CUTel system such that the desktop users can interact (ie, dial, be called, etc) with regular telephone users. To deploy a gateway, following these steps:

• Acquire a device that's capable of handling computer telephony, currently, the CUTel demo only supports the Dialogic D41/EPCI card. Obtain such a card if you wish to use the gateway include with the CUTel demo.
• After obtaining and installing the card on a capable PC running Windows NT, download the CUTel demo below and run the installation, when prompted, select "Gateway Installation".
• After rebooting, the Gateway can be run immediately.  There are two ways to launch the Gateway: with our without a PBX:

           jview cnrg.itx.gtwy.Gateway [-pbx]
  

  If the pbx option is used, then the PBX Server should be started before the gateway.

• Phone calls can then be made on CUPS to numbers reachable by the Gateway.
• Similarly, a voice session on SPOT may also be redirected to a telephone

Download

Self-Extracting Winzip file, unzip to a directory and then run setup.exe: CUTel demo