FXS Line Testing

You can test FXS telephone lines that are connected to the device's FXS ports. The test is done per FXS port and FXS country coefficient type - USA (70) or TBR21 (66). The output of the test displays various line statuses and electrical line measurements. Some of the supported FXS status and line measurements include:

■ Hazardous Potential Tests (HPT) - hazardous AC or DC voltage is present on the tip and ring or both.
■ Foreign Electromotive Force Tests (FEMT) - foreign voltage is present on the tip, ring or both
■ Resistive Fault Tests (RFT) - tip or ring is shorted to ground, or they are shorted to each other
■ Receiver Off-hook Tests (ROH) - one or more phones are off hook on phone line during test.
■ Ringer Impedance Tests (RIT)
■ AC/DC line voltage
■ AC/DC line current
■ Line resistance
■ Line capacity
■ Hook status (on or off)
■ Message Waiting Indication (MWI) status (on or off)
■ Ring status (on or off)
■ Reversal polarity status (on or off)

The FXS line test is currently supported only through CLI.

➢ To run the FXS line test:
1. Access the VoIP command set:
# configure voip
2. Access the FXS interface command set:
(config-voip)# interface fxs-fxo
3. Type the following command:
(fxs-fxo)# fxs-line-testing < Module/Port > {66|70}

For example, to test FXS port 4 on FXS module1 with coefficient type USA:

(fxs-fxo)# fxs-line-testing 1/4 70