Sipura Phone Adapters (SPA-2000) connect standard telephones and fax machines to IP-based data networks. IP telephony service providers and enterprises can offer users traditional and enhanced communication services via the customers? broadband connection to the Internet or Local Area Network (LAN).
Partial Feature List:
Product URL: http://www.sipura.com/products/spa2000.htm
Be careful of the spelling of Bellcore-rX. It took me two hours before I realized I had written Bellcore-dr3 instead of Bellcore-r3.
Following BT SIN 350 issue 1.2
Following BT SIN 351 issue 4.2
This documentation is only available to Service Providers, however most people will find it near to impossbile even if they are a legit provider. Please see http://spc.pifiu.com for 2nd party downloads of these same exact utilities.
Please contact sales@sipura.com if you need this information.
The Sipura SPA User's guide (PDF) is available from the Sipura site. It has information for the 1000, 2000, and 3000.
SPA2000 Review
VOIP Phones
Partial Feature List:
- CODEC Support: G.711 A-law, G.711 u-law, G.726, G.729a+b
- VoIP Protocols Supported: SIPv2
- SIP Features: Call hold, Call waiting, Caller ID Indication
- Two RJ-11 ports
- One 10/100 Ethernet ports for broadband access and corporate LAN
Product URL: http://www.sipura.com/products/spa2000.htm
- Asterisk phone SPA-2000: Configuration for Asterisk
- VOIP Phones
Limited CPU means limited compression
If you want to use a compressed codec to save on bandwidth (G.726 or G.729) the SPA-2000 doesn't have enough computing power to compress two phone calls at the same time. So you are limited to one compressed call and one uncompressed (G.711 codec) at the same time. The improved SPA-2002 does not have this limitation.To upgrade the firmware via tftp
- put the spa.bin file in your tftp server directory
- on the Sipura provision page set "Upgrade enable" to "yes"
- using a browser on the tftp server - http://sipura-ip-address/upgrade?/pathname/spa.bin
- for example: http://192.168.2.10/upgrade?/tftpboot/spa.bin
- the Sipura will display a page explaining that the upgrade is in progress
Distinctive rings
- Set variable ALERT_INFO to change the ring cadences that Asterisk asks the SPA-2000 to play. Example:
- exten => 5555,1,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=Bellcore-r7) ; possible values are Bellcore-r1 to Bellcore-r8
- exten => 5555,2,Dial(Sip/5555)
Be careful of the spelling of Bellcore-rX. It took me two hours before I realized I had written Bellcore-dr3 instead of Bellcore-r3.
Custom Ring Cadences
You can customise the ring cadences in the regional menu of your SPA-2000. For example to produce rings for the UK these settings were created by David_W and posted at http://voxilla.com:Following BT SIN 350 issue 1.2
- Dial tone: (current wizard levels wrong - 440Hz should be 3dB down) 350@-19,440@-22;10(*/0/1+2)
- Ring back: (current wizard is correct) 400@-20,450@-20;*(.4/.2/1+2,.4/2/1+2)
- Busy tone: (current wizard has the cadence slightly wrong) 400@-20;10(.375/.375/1)
- Reorder tone: 400@-20;10(*/0/1)
- SIT 1 tone: 950@-16,1400@-16,1800@-16;20(.330/0/1,.330/0/2,.330/0/3,0/1/0)
- MWI dial tone: 350@-19,440@-22;10(.75/.75/1+2)
- CWT1 cadence: 30(.1/2)
- CWT2 cadence: 30(.25/.25,.25/.25,.25/5)
- CWT frequency: 400@-10
Following BT SIN 351 issue 4.2
- Ring 1 cadence: 60(.4/.2,.4/2)
- Ring 2 cadence (used for BT Call Sign): 60(1/2)
- Ring 3 cadence (used for BT Ring Back): 60(.25/.25,.25/.25,.25/1.75)
- Ring 4 cadence: 60(.4/.8)
- Ring 5 cadence:60(2/4)
FXS impedence settings
- 600 for the US
- 370+620||310nF for the UK
- CTR21 270+750||150nF for most of Europe
Documentation
Sipura has excellent documentation for configuration and provisioning of their equipment.This documentation is only available to Service Providers, however most people will find it near to impossbile even if they are a legit provider. Please see http://spc.pifiu.com for 2nd party downloads of these same exact utilities.
Please contact sales@sipura.com if you need this information.
The Sipura SPA User's guide (PDF) is available from the Sipura site. It has information for the 1000, 2000, and 3000.
SPA2000 Review
Notes
The Linksys PAP2 and PAP2-NA are very similar products that contain Sipura written firmware.- The PAP2-NA has the same processing power limitation as the SPA-2000 described above. It can only handle one compressed call at a time. If you want to make two calls then one of them must be uncompressed.
- The PAP2-NA can be purchased from DeployVoip!
Purchase
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- The VoIP Outpost for deals on used and new SPAs
- Ships to US only, $1 per unit shipping, $10 min
- Like new: $60, Brand new: $70
- 20 x like new = $1140
- 20 x brand new = $1380, 100 x brand new = $6400, 500 x brand new = $30000
- Telephony Depot USA, Worldwide Delivery
- Voiplink.com SPA-2000 USA, International Delivery
- Wildix in Ukraine Ukraine
See Also
- Sipura
- Linksys
- Linksys (Sipura) VoIP Support Forum - configurations, dial plans, etc.
- Asterisk phone SPA-2000
- Asterisk - Intermittent beep with linksys SPA 3102, PAP2, DTMF sounds heard during conversation
- DTMF (dialing digits) and IVR problems in Asterisk with SPA-3102 and PAP-2 devices
- Problems dialing prefix *67 (anonymous call) on SPA-3102 and Asterisk
VOIP Phones

Comments
333UK Ring Indication - PAP2
Good stuff!
PC
333one g729 channel simultaneously
According to this image, this conflicts with the information above about the SPA-2002 not having the 1 compressed channel limit? I dont have an SPA-2002 to tell for sure, someone care to test?
333Volume Level
I've tried increasing "FXS Port Input/Output Gain" and it doesn't seem to have any effect on the volume.
I've got one line of the 2000 configured to go to Asterisk and the other line to FWD. The volume level seems about the same for both.
I also have a Motorola VT-1000 that is locked to vonage. When I use the same phone with that ATA, the volume level is much higher.
Any advice appreciated.
333Distinctive Ring Cadences
Thanks to ZX81 in #asterisk, he told me to use _ALERT_INFO, and that worked...
example:
exten => 5555,1,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=Bellcore-r7)
exten => 5555,2,Dial(Sip/5555)
333Re: reset?
333reset?
73738# asks for password and 877778# doesn't reset anything important.
333Use with Asterisk
line setup so that the sipura knows where the asterisk server is.
and nat=0 and canreinvite=no
or elese you'll end up hearing people on line one but can't speak to them..
hope this helps