Well I am trying to make my own and i have seen a few that say you dont actuly need to pin (2 orange to pins 5,6&8) and that you only realy need to pin it to 5 only.. IS this correct?

Please help!!

thanks,
DAN

there were a couple for sale on ebay the otyher day

Try this link https://support.avaya.com/edoc/docs/legend/legsmdr.pdf

I just put one together, gonna try it tonight. Anyone get this to work?

Yea! I threw one together a few months ago and incorporated it into a DB-9 hood. Works great but I didn't use the diodes.

ok I guess its about time to give something back to this board, I made two using a DB9 to lan adapter using the pinouts below. Costs: $3/ea for materials, an hour+ worth of buying materials and messing around with it. Only took 10 minutes to make the second one. I tested it with SPM and SMDR and both work fine. I used straight though connections (no resistors and caps) and I did not tie anything together.

CODE
rj-45
PIN 1 ORANGE 2 CD
PIN 2 GREEN 5 RD
PIN 3 YELLOW 6 TD
PIN 4 BLACK 3 DTR
PIN 5 RED 4 SG
PIN 6 BROWN 7 DSR
PIN 7 WHITE 8 RTS
PIN 8 n/a CTS
PIN 9 BLUE 1

Anyone know the maximum length of this cable?

The 355AF is an adapter, not a cable. Check the Install Guides for the system in question for the suggested maximum length.

It would be better to start a new topic rather than tacking on to one that "ended" 4 years ago.

Check the Install Guides for the system in question for the suggested maximum length.

Further, the adapter is used by a tech to administer the equipment. No reason to have any permanent wiring attached to it, so there will be nothing regarding maximum cable length in any documentation.

-Hal

Further, the adapter is used by a tech to administer the equipment. No reason to have any permanent wiring attached to it, so there will be nothing regarding maximum cable length in any documentation.


I think you also use a 355 adapter to connect a terminal or printer to the SMDR port.
https://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100010265

Page 352 & 353/466

Ive got a cat5 patch cord coming out of one to to a patch panel and then with a cat5 connection to a office on the other side of the building for call accounting

I would think the limitation would be the same as any Ethernet drop

Avaya's documents call for a 50 foot limit for a direct connection. Anything over that requires "Asynchronous Data Units"




That being said, I just installed a hotel call accounting system, using installed Cat-5, extending 2 serial ports (call accounting to property management system, and property management system to voice mail), probably 200 feet and working just fine.

A car dealership had a PC for WinSPM connected less than 50 feet away, and every time the PC was shut down, the Magix dropped all calls. We figure that the grounds were at different potentials.

I like the second diagram. And yes I realize that the 355 had many uses over the years. I saw WINSPM someplace and for some reason that was what I was thinking of. That's why it is always better to start a new topic with your information rather than tacking onto something that talks about a lot of other stuff.

-Hal

I am a newbie to this site. 29 years in telecom, very little of it on Avaya products.
I found this post through Google.
I am planning an install of a Partner ACS Rel. 8 with the 5x9 processor.
All the official Avaya documentation I have read for direct connect shows a DB-9 laptop com port connecting with a a DB9-to-DB25 cable, then using an adapter to go from the DB25 cable to RJ45/Ethernet cable [patch cord] which will then allow the final connection to the RJ45 female plug on the face of the 5x9 processor.
It seems to me like Avaya [as usual] and everyone here is missing the point, this is a simple serial RS232 connection.
Why not use a DB9-to-RJ45 adapter coming off the laptop and go straight to the RJ45 female on the processor ??
It would probably be typical serial connector using 2-3 3-2 4-4 6-6 or 2-3 3-2 4-6 6-4 or something like that. I don't physically have the processor yet to monkey around with the pinouts but this, to me, seems like the simplest solution. Has anyone attempted this succesfully?

Thanks
CTNYRFAN

Why not use a DB9-to-RJ45 adapter coming off the laptop and go straight to the RJ45 female on the processor??

:idea: Don't ya think someone may have already thought of that?

Then again you could avoid the whole thing and program just as easily and even quicker from extension 10 or 11.

-Hal

This should work

db9 rj45
2 5
3 6
5 4
8 7
7 8
4 3
1 2
9 1

Sorry, my columns didn't line up. The second row above (5,6,4,7,8,3,2,1)should be under the rj45 heading.

Thank you SUPERTECH2000 for your poignant and concise answer, as I would expect from a Master Jedi.