Re: PM3's in analogland (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:28:55 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Richard W. Gross shaped the electrons to say...
>This is the key, at least for me. A P50 can connect to a 5BRI in the
>PM-2, and bring up/down the second channel as needed, dynamically,
>without manually bringing up the channel?
>
>Meaning, the P50 router can grap the 2nd channel as necessary, use it,
>drop it, bring it up again, all based on the customer's demand for
>bandwidth?

Yes. The caveats are thus (Hey Ascend users, feel free to add/correct):

With MP+ A can dial B and B can bring up a second line back to A if
needed. With standard MP (RFC 1717) A dials B then A must be the one to
add the second line.

I do not believe Ascend allows more than one phone number to be set. MP+
has a dynamic system whereby A can dial B, then query B for the number to
dial for the second line. With MP you need a hunt group on the receiving
end (B) because A dials the same number for each link. (Unless they allow
multiple numbers like we do.)

MP+ is just MP with a few extensions created by Ascend. MP is the
industry standard, and is what we support. Ascend units will fall back
to MP if the other end doesn't do MP+.

-MZ

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