Re: [hylafax-users] Question about Multitech DID modem? Type of analog trunk?

[Ben Chapman <bjchapm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> On 2004.11.17 14:11 Ben Chapman wrote:
>
> > I've talked briefly with one of our telecomm engineers and he's asking 
> > about the provisioning required for the Multitech; I believe that he 
> > is thinking in terms of a PRI circuit.
>
>
> A PRI (or any other kind of T1 circuit) is not what you're looking for.
>
> I've set these DID modems up with a few different telcos (Sprint, Qwest, 
> and Verizon).  Sometimes I had to talk with them for long lengths of 
> time about it, but all of them ended up using the terminology of "analog 
> DID trunk".

Thanks for this clarification.

>[snipped excerpt from the manual that I should have found before posting]

Thanks for this! I've sent it (and the whole manual) along to the 
telecom guy. Because we're a fairly large university campus, it's our 
on-site people who would set this up; maybe that will make it easier 
than trying to talk directly to the telco.

> In all of my installations the configuration was *always* wink start 
> signalling with DTMF digit formatting.  Again, ultimately all of the 
> telcos ended up calling this an "analog DID trunk line".  The monthly 
> price has varied between $40 and $50 per line (one line per 
> modem/simultaneous inbound call).  You'll probably be the only one at 
> the local telco to have such a service as it is rather uncommon.
>
> Lee.

Again, thanks -- we'll see what the next round of questions are.

Ben

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