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Common ISDN Application Programming Interface

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This article is a translation of the article Common_ISDN_Application_Programming_Interface on the german Wikipedia.

The Common ISDN Application Programming Interface (short CAPI) is a ISDN-conform standartized Software-Interface. With the help of the CAPI-Interface Computer-Software intended for the use with ISDN can be provided, without knowledge of the deployed, proprietary ISDN-Card.

CAPI was designed from 1989 by german manufacturers (AVM, Systec, Stollmann). Since 1991 CAPI is being developed further by CAPI Association e.V.. Implementations exist for different Operating Systems like Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Through the ETSI CAPI 2.0 was introduced as standard ETS 300 324 (Profile B).

Primary CAPI was designed for data transfer over ISDN. The specification has been extended multiple times, thereby it became importand to the area of voice- and fax-communication. Because pure data transfer over IP-based networks is dominant in modern times, CAPI is being used primarily in the scope of voice applications (Voicemail, IVR, callcenter, Voice conference systems etc.), for fax-servers and combined systems (UMS).

The CAPI-Interface in its current release (CAPI 2.0) supports a variety of signaling protocols (D channel protocols), e.g. DSS1 and FTZ 1 TR 6. The interface operates in the OSI model between layer 3 and 4 but only controls layers 1 to 3.

Besides popular signaling protocols for ISDN implementations of CAPI for ATM, GSM and VoIP (H.323 and SIP) exist, thus CAPI applications can be used directly on cutting edge communications infrastructure. Special extensions for protocolspecific features where defined several years ago vor ATM. Specification extensions for VoIP (codec negotiation, advanced addressing etc.) are already sophisticated and will be available shortly.

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