Customer has integrated access arrangement with 16 channels of data/8 for voice that is split via customer cisco equipment. No local dialing, LD and incoming 800 service only via the t1. Qwest provides both the local loop and LD/800 service but it is provided via re-seller PNG.

We have verified clock integrity via cisco logs that show no frame slips (cisco uses CO as a reference and we use the cisco as a reference.)

No reference to Feature Group A (or D for that matter) is on our paperwork.

It is nearly a rural location so I'm guessing we are connected via an End Office but can check this.

Bill

jltaylor wrote:

What kind of service did you subscribe to (what do they call it on your
bill)?
Retail business trunks?
Feature Group A?
Can you dial "local" numbers or is this all long distance?
Is Qwest the LEC or a long distance provider for this service?
Are you connected to an End Office or a Tandem?

These all may give me a hit as to what is going on.
James

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] T1 E&M wink issues - bad int'l dial-out
andoccasional dropped calls


Anyone have any ideas here?

We are using 8 channels of E&M Wink with a T100P for outgoing LD and
incoming tollfree numbers and are apparently connected to a Nortel
DMS-250 at the CO.   We are receiving ANI & DNIS just fine and can
dial-out domestically with DTMF but have two issues that are still
unresolved:

1) We cannot dial-out internationally with an 011 prefix (or any other
prefix that we can think of).  Qwest claims (1) they never get
international calls and (2) domestic calls are routed to their LD
service as 00001NXXNXXXXXX instead of 1NXXNXXXXXX.   Is some form of
prefix/suffix needed for DTMF dialing over an E&M wink channel?  (e.g.
something like the *ANI*DNIS* for incoming.) 011 clearly doesn't work as
a prefix and Qwest's response has invariably been 'there is something
wrong with your PBX' :(   Curiously if we follow an
011+international-number with a * we get a recording that we have not
entered sufficient digits to complete the call whereas without the * we
just get a congestion beep from the far end.

2) Once or twice a day the customer is getting calls dropped.  The log
shows the following:

Apr 21 13:15:51 VERBOSE[22664]:     -- Hungup 'Zap/7-1'
Apr 21 13:15:52 VERBOSE[22664]:     -- Starting simple switch on
'Zap/7-1'      Apr 21 13:15:53 WARNING[22664]: getdtmf on channel 7:
Operation now in progress
Apr 21 13:15:53 VERBOSE[22664]:     -- Hungup 'Zap/7-1'

It appears that we see the line go back on-hook, hangup but then see it go
off-hook again and treat it as another incoming call that never gets a DTMF
input when in fact the call has just been dropped.  We've verified that we
are not sharing interrupts, we are on run level 3 etc. zttest shows (so far)
a minimum of 99.987%.  Can anyone think of what might be causing this or
what we could ask Qwest regarding possible diagnostics?

3) Finally, what level of dropped calls is generally considered acceptable?
Like the dead-pixel issue with LCDs this is pretty subjective but is there
an industry number that is typical? (We are presently at ~1% due to this
issue.)

Thanks to all for any shared wisdom.  Bill





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