> At 10:05 AM -0500 8/13/97, Jake Messinger wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Ger Thrond wrote:
> 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
Im not talking about POTS and BRI's. Im talking about all BRI's. Is that
what you are talking about?
> 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
We are on an OLD 5ess and it hunts fine. They are upgrading to a NEW 5ess
in October.
So I guess the answer is, It depends on how old the switch is?
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