>> The person we're talking to at Pac Bell doesn't seem very sure of themselves
>> and believes that the Hunt group can only be configured for Digital
>> originated calls or analog originated calls but not both.
>
>Hunting is hunting to a digital switch. It does not
>determine the origination until after the hunt. We have hunting across
>several bri's and we have no problems. (remember the poor man's PM 3?).
This isn't correct. Some switches will only do voice hunts or data hunts,
but not mixed voice-and-data hunts for groups of BRIs. At some of our
POPs, we have to have three hunt groups--one for POTS, one for voice ISDN
that we use for x2, and one for data ISDN calls. At other POPs, the
switches handle mixed hunts fine, so we only need to have two hunt groups
(one for POTS and one for the BRIs). When we were getting our first ISDN
hunt installed, it was on a switched that wouldn't handle mixed hunts, so
all of our x2 callers worked fine, but ISDN callers would simply get a "no
answer" if the first line was occupied. This was a pain because we were
hoping to accomodate ISDN and x2 callers on the same equipment and BRIs.
I'm pretty sure that older 5ESS switches are the culprit in not being able
to do mixed voice-and-data hunts. My understanding is that there are newer
cards for the 5ESS that allow it to do mixed hunts, but
Jordyn
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