Re: cheap analog/digital: Crazy enough to work.
Damien T. (damient@livewire.digicity.net)
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:49:53 -0800 (PST)
>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:48:44
>To: "Tony Fogle [NOL STAFF]" <tony@nol.net>
>From: "Damien T." <damient@livewire.digicity.net>
>Subject: Re: cheap analog/digital: Crazy enough to work.
>
>At 03:43 AM 12/21/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Perhaps this would be a fantastic Feature Request at Ascend...think of the
>>implications...being able to use multiple BRIs in a large hunt group, able
>>to add 2 lines at a time as you need them instead of 23-24 (or 30 for
>>EuroPeople) channels at a time with a PRI.
>>
>>For the ISP just starting out, or the BBS ready to take the plunge to
>>ISDN, I recommend informing the Bell company that you intend to operate
>>this way, and on the first ISDN install, bring in a shitload of strands,
>>instead of just a couple.
>
>The "Crazy Enough to Work" diagram was quite interesting. Ascend
>capabilities aside, we found after installing a 5-BRI card that
>our hunting didn't work right on the ISDN pool.
>
>According to Pac Bell, if our BRIs are configured for data + voice,
>then they will only hunt on voice. If we want a B to B hunt on through
>the group, the lines had to be provisioned as data only.
>
>Anyone else faced this type of provisioning issue? We're served
>by a Nortel DMS-100 switch.
>
>Damien
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