I know there is someone on this list from USWest who seems to know telco
stuff far better than I (that doesn't take much, unfortunately). Perhaps
they can respond about how to handle these intertelco issues? I generally
just get the two telcos pointing fingers at each other.
-- Ron Parker, Brazosport College
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Tim Hodges, Triangle Telephone Cooperative wrote:
> Greetings.. > > Okay here is the set up. > > I have a PM-3, with 2 CT-1's feeding it. Running 3.5.1b8. Our company is both > the ISP and a local rural telco. > > I am going to be supplying service to a telephone exchange several hundred > miles from > here. The phone calls from that exchange are forwarded across our fiber optic > telephone network to our main CO/modem location. > > If I call the PM-3 from my main telephone exchange where the PMs are located: > works great. > > If I call the PM-3 from the remote telephone exchange: > works great. > > If I make a long distance call from my main location to the telephone number > at the remote exchange: the call goes through, but the modems fail to train. > > The failed phone calls leave my main phone switch, go across the US West > toll network, hit my remote exchange and then get forwarded back to my PM-3s. > > Some of the phone goes say it is the cumulative propagation delays that are > causing the failure. I disagree. I think it is some conditioning in the phone > network that is causing the problem. > > I would appreciate any input from users who have more telephone network > knowledge or experience in similiar situations. I will probably open a ticket > with livingston today, but thought I would start here. > > Thanks, > > Tim Hodges > Triangle Telephone Cooperative > 7thodges@3rivers.net >