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Re: (ASCEND) Centrex Calls with 5.0Ap36 (Private/Public Flags)



I'm doing Centrex BRI to BRI calling both ways between Pipelines (one 50
and one 75) on a PacBell 5ESS. I've gone through pretty much every 5.*p
version and am on 6.0 beta now.

At 10:50 PM 12/16/97 -0800, Earl Wallace wrote:
>
>We were running 4.6Cp22 on our Max 2000 and decided to jump over to
>5.0Ap36 but had to go back to 4.6Cp22 after we could not call any of
>our Centrex ISDN customers with 5.0Ap36.
>
>To avoid PacBell per-minute charges, we must dial the Centrex
>extensions with 5-digits (it can vary depending on your need).
>We had the PacBell Tech Support folks watch us make some Centrex
>calls and they did not see us set the 'Private' flag in the call
>setup.  This flag has to be set for Centrex calls (if the Private
>flag isn't set, it assumes you are making a Public call).  In the
>past this has not been a problem before because PacBell hacked around
>this 'Private' flag requirement, but they don't do that any more
>since SBC has declared the switches will run unhacked code, which
>I guess is a GoodThing ;-)  4.6Cp22 set the Private flag, 5.0Ap36
>does not.
>
>Anyone else doing Centrex calls to their customers on a DMS-100 in
>PacBell-Land with 5.0Ap36? 
>
>I have reported the problem to Ascend but haven't heard back from them
>on this particular issue...
>
>P.S. - Other than this Private flag problem, we would very happy with
>       5.0Ap36.
>
>---
>Earl Wallace [earlw@walltech.com]       Wallace Technical Communications
>V: 650-938-1352   F: 650-961-9151       http://www.walltech.com
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