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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: Subaddressing (was: ISDN/analog interfacing)
- Message-ID: <bob1.728145401@cos>
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- References: <C1HpEy.5Go@sranhd.sra.co.jp> <1993Jan27.123439.21824W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:36:41 GMT
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- In <1993Jan27.123439.21824W@lumina.edb.tih.no> ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH) writes:
-
- >In article <C1HpEy.5Go@sranhd.sra.co.jp>, nisimura@sran233.sra.co.jp (Tohru
- >Nishimura) writes:
-
- >>[...] ISDN exchange can detect which
- >>type equipments are attached to customer ISDN busline, and ISDN exchange
- >>subsystem will answer as "There is no equipment you can talk with....."
- >>IN THE CASE OF caller is ordinal analog telephone system.
-
- >How can the exchange know? Functionality depends on the hardware and
- >software loaded into my PC at the moment. I may unplug the speaker and
- >microphone from my PC and delete the driver program for the voice
- >functions, but leave the file transfer and email software running; I
- >will not report that to the exchange. My ISDN interface card is the
- >same, so there is no electrical change that can be detected on the busline.
-
- >The only way presence of voice (or other kinds) of functionality can be
- >detected is by asking my PC (by sending a SETUP) message: Do you WANT to
- >accept this incoming voice call? If my PC responds with an ALERTING
- >message, then the exchange may assume that I do have the necessary
- >equipment and software. But the converse is NOT true: I may have it,
- >but not WANT to utilize it at the moment. Eg. I may want to remain
- >quiet to calls from telemarketing companies. I may want to remain quiet
- >to most calls (only accept calls from selected callers) after 11 p.m.
-
- >If there is any way that the exchange can detect which functionality
- >my PC-with-ISDN-card realizes in its software, then I haven't read the
- >ISDN recommendations close enough. Also, I will be scared. What else
- >does the exchange know about my PC software?? :-)
-
- Don't lose any sleep :-), the transformer coupling in NT1 would make
- any electrical detection extremely difficult, if not impossible.
- If the exchange wishes to offer such a service, you would have to
- provide them with the details of what is on the passive bus, but
- then as you say, how would they know whether it was turned on or
- off (unless you are maintaing an active logical LAPD connection).
-
- I imagine the switch has enough to do without this and this is
- why the SETUP message has the ability to convey so much protocol
- information.
-
-