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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 14:37:39 GMT
- From: vixen!jadams@uunet.UU.NET (22475-adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Telco Handling Of Cable Cut
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 848, Message 7 of 10
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- In article <telecom12.839.1@eecs.nwu.edu>, rfranken@cs.umr.edu writes:
-
- > First, let me clarify exactly what I meant. The point I was making is
- > that a switch need not know that anything has happened.
-
- > Equipment to do this DOES exist. I work for a railroad, in the
- > telecommunications department (although not the switched network
- > group), and we have equipment (I can't remember the name - I'll refer
- > to it as a DACS, although that is not really an accurate name) that
- > does this.
-
- If railroad signaling (I'm a RR wannabe as a hobbyist) is what is
- carried, it is natural to have protection switching (What the telecom
- industry calls its schemes to maintain reliable transmission
- facilities) in place for safety reasons. In the public switched
- telephone network (PSTN), the consequences of dropping a connection
- are not as severe.
-
- > I an fairly certain that supervision on the trunk will not be lost
- > during the interval that the trunk is being rerouted. If it was,
- > then, of course, the call would be dropped, but there are easy ways
- > around that. (This post is long enough without the details).
-
- The previous post (this issue) from Al Varney about signaling on DS1
- indicates a very short (less than 125 us) interval needed to maintain
- supervision. Protection switching operates with switching times of at
- least two orders of magnitude higher. As such, it is highly unlikely
- that individual circuit supervision will survive such a switch.
- Moreover, in current digital facilties (FT3 comes to mind), this
- protection switching is built in to automatically switch to a spare
- line when the BER exceeds 10-6(?).
-
- > Do any telephone companies actually use this for voice circuits? I
- > don't know, but my point was that it could be done if they wanted to.
-
- Now that we've beaten this to death, I reiterate that I know of NO
- telephone companies (this doesn't mean that none exist!) that use this
- approach.
-
- BTW, I think DACS is a trademark of AT&T (Before trademarking it stood
- for Digital Access and Cross-connect system). Any of you Baldrige
- award winning AT&T transmission folks wanna help out here?
-
-
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