Re: disabling 56K (was: Re: (PM) Global Village modem + PM3 - ne

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
19 Jan 1998 20:24:47 GMT

According to Chris Comley <Chris@wizards.co.uk>:
>> What about a ComOS setting that will disable the v.8bis tone and 56K
>> negotiation when the called-station-id matches a (preconfigured) number?
>>
>> With this feature you could "disable" 56K and give users that want 56K a
>> different phone number.
>>
>> (This kind of setup ofcouse requires your PRI lines to have multiple
>> phonenumbers)
>
>Moreover, it requirest the PM3 to be able to deteced Called Line ID
>and react accordingly. So far as I know it doesn't detect Called ID,
>it certainly doesn't log or display it anywhere I've been able to
>work out. Rmember, Q931 signalling does NOT permit hard-mapping of
>phone number to channel within a single PRI trunk.

The PM3 does detect and log Called Line ID as Called-Station-Id in
RADIUS accounting logs. We are going to be using this to do our
toll-free access billing soon. We are getting a second phone number for
our PRIs that maps to the same channels, then our toll-free line will
lay on top of that number. Toll-free billing will then be as simple as
selecting out just the calls to a particular number. Since I already
log everything to MySQL, this will make toll-free billing a snap.

AFAIK, the PM3 does not display Called Line ID (or Calling Line ID)
anywhere except for RADIUS accounting. Just last week, I sent an RFE
that both be available via the command line interface and SNMP, so maybe
it will come in a future release (although I expect it will move up the
list if others RFE it as well - isn't that how it works?).

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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