Re: BRI Hunt Group and 5ESS switch

Jordyn A. Buchanan (jordyn@bestweb.net)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:04:04 -0400

At 11:38 AM -0500 8/13/97, Jake Messinger wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote:
>
>> 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?

The POTS comment was really extraneous--I was just explaining how we had to
rig things up. Our experience is that on some switches, the telco cannot
mix voice-and-data hunts on BRIs.

>> 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?

Depends on the type of cards they're using, according to NYNEX.

Jordyn

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