Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!netsys.UUCP!wb8foz From: wb8foz@netsys.UUCP (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: DID (was no ringing) Message-ID: <1764@netsys.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 87 00:29:28 GMT References: <62243006061@minnie.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: harvard!netsys!wb8foz@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (David Lesher,Contributor) Organization: NetSys Public Access Network Lines: 16 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu >It sounds as if you are describing what's called a DID (Direct Inward >Dialing) installation. This is an arrangement whereby the Central >Office equipment acts in effect as a tandem, directly signaling the >subscriber's PBX to connect the call to one of its extensions. BTW is it still true that the BOC will only xmit that data to you via PULSE? (10pps) That was, I believe, the reason why it takes so long for DID calls to complete. Now, of course, if you are the BOC offering CENTREX, it might mean that you have an advantage..... -- Have you ever WATCHED cable TV, Judge Kennedy? decuac!netsys!wb8foz