OK, how about PRI. We are in the fortunate position of having more ISDN
customers than 56k dial-up. When I need more B-channels than my 2T can
give me, and I add another, what do I do? If I fully populate the first
box with modems, and the first 46 lines are used up, customers will get
busy signals, even though I have potentially thousands of $$ worth of modems
idle, and plenty of B-channels left to handle the calls.
I believe I understand that when you run out of modems in a PRI box, it
returns a busy signal as an ISDN cause code. Does this mean that if I have
two PM3s, and one is not populated (or underpopulated), I should make the
fully-populated box at the END of the chain of busy-forwarded PRIs? That
makes sense to me, but will the PM-generated ISDN busy signal trigger the
busy-forward? (and I suppose I have to be careful of per-call busy-forward
fees, as I am in GTE territory).
This wasn't a problem with 2e's, BRIs and analog modems, but then, we
didn't get 56k and then we had idle ISDN lines half the day and idle
modem lines the other half.
Thanks.
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