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- From: bill.garfield@yob.sccsi.com (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: InterOffice Trunk Help Needed
- Message-ID: <telecom12.851.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:13:00 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Reply-To: bill.garfield@yob.sccsi.com (Bill Garfield)
- Organization: Ye Olde Bailey BBS - Houston, TX - 713-520-1569
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-
- Background:
-
- I have two MITEL SX2000SG 3-cabinet PBX's side-by-side in my office.
- Southwestern Bell service arrives via 44.736 Mbps (DS3) fiber
- terminating in Rockwell equipment. The PBX's are digital, The trunks
- are digital. There is no channel bank equipment at my end. Network
- synchronization is derived from SWB. Span status logs indicate *NO*
- frame slips, *NO* bit errors and no CRC errors. Everything is in sync,
- fat, dumb and happy.
-
- Two CO's across town (near a business associate) I have another MITEL
- three-cabinet SG. Just coincidentally, this machine is served by the
- same CO as my business associate (about more later).
-
- Only the PSTN service from SWB and my IXC feeds (USS) are non ISDN.
- All the MITELS derive network sync from one of the machines here at
- the corporate office, which in turn derives its sync from SWB. We've
- tried different sync sources, even let 'er go freerun without any
- change in the problem. Zero suppression is AMI -- throughout the
- network ... I've checked.
-
- The problem: For a _very_ long time now I have been having fits trying
- to RELIABLY receive 9600 bps FAX transmissions from a very large
- business associate across town. (Two central offices away). The brand
- of fax machine in use at either end has no bearing, as we've both
- tried several brands, multiple machines on multiple extensions.
-
- In desperation, I installed a copper POTS line (from SWB) direct to
- ONE of my 170 fax machines (yes, 170!). This works SWELL, but doesn't
- address the central issue of the business associate being unable to
- reliably send long, multiple-page fax messages from any of his 75 fax
- machines to any of the other 169 machines at my corporate office. In
- answer to the obvious question, neither we nor the business associate
- are experiencing any fax problems with anyone else that we know of.
-
- Testing and research: A few nights ago, the business associate & I
- attempted sending nearly 100 fax images from his location to mine via
- the SWB PSTN. As it was off-peak, all my PBX's were basically idle, so
- I was able to busy out selected DID T-1's, thereby effectively
- "steering" his inbound fax calls from SWB onto specific individual
- T-1's, and recording the span and channel number being seized. I
- thought I was going to find a bunch of bad trunks. I didn't. What I
- found was that whenever a specific trunk WOULD pass his fax image to
- me flawlessly, the next time the SAME trunk got selected the fax would
- fail. We tried these same tests on nine different SWB DID T-1's,
- busying out eight spans and leaving one span of 24 trunks open.
-
- The failure rate was nearly identical. Five of these spans are served
- by a 5AESS and the other four by a 1A, but that too seems not to
- matter. When things failed, as they did at an alarming rate of 50% of
- the time, the fax machines would experience difficult link
- negotiations and then sync up at 4800 or 2400. The received image
- captured from a marginal link contains SERIOUSLY misaligned pixels --
- it looks like a noisey image, but at close scrutiny, it isn't noise,
- as no "extra" gibberish is present. The desired image was there, but
- with literally thousands of "holes" in it from "missing" pixels. The
- missing pixels are all there, but are scattered about the page,
- appearing as noise dots. The received image is so mutilated as to be
- virtually unintelligible.
-
- Brainstorm! I took an unused DID number on my downtown PBX (near the
- associate) and "routed" it via my internal ISDN trunks to send the
- call to the same fax machine on the same extension, cable and pair,
- but using my internal trunks instead of Bell's. This WORKS! - So WHY
- can't ma bell give me usable fax circuits over her PSTN? What's
- different? I strongly suspect inter-machine trunk trouble between the
- National and Clay central offices, but how do I prove this and how do
- I get through to the teledroid at repair service that we're
- experiencing this problem on ALL 216 DID trunks? Profound thoughts
- and ideas are welcomed.
-
-
- Ye Olde Bailey BBS Houston,Texas
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