[19483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-CO signaling?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Vanick)
Tue Sep 15 14:31:15 1998
From: jvanick@megsinet.net (Jason Vanick)
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net (Jon Lewis)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:31:11 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cskidmor@nwnexus.net, goemon@sasami.anime.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980915015242.2415L-100000@tarkin.fdt.net> from "Jon Lewis" at Sep 15, 98 01:55:05 am
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Chad Skidmore wrote:
>
> > Try making an ISDN call from one to the other at a 64k rate. If you can
> > get through then there are at least some trunks setup as ESF B8ZS clear
> > channel. I suspect that they are probably some older trunks running AMI
> >
> > The other thing you could do is just ask them.
>
> Where's the smiley face? You can't be serious in that last sentance. 2
> out of 3 telcos are incapable of configuring circuits properly, and the
> more they insist the signalling is set a particular way, the better the
> odds are it's the other way.
Many of these telcos had their default translations set up for them years
ago by Nortel and AT&T during switch installation, and if there isn't a
good switch tech there the telco itself gets to be very reluctant to
change them for just a few customers.
- Jason
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