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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 4:58:19 EDT
- From: Tom Metro <tmetro@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: A/A1 Answer Supervision
- Message-ID: <telecom12.688.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Venture Logic, Newton, MA
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- > dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu (Dave Grabowski) writes:
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- >> I recently obtained a telephone that was used on a private Centrex
- >> system. It has a sticker on the back : "Caution: For use only on
- >> business lines or risk of electrical short circuit"...
-
- > It's probably set up to do A/A1 answer supervision. That means that
- > when you take it off hook, it *shorts* the second pair of wires
- > together.
-
- What is the purpose of shorting the second pair of wires? It sounds
- redundant to the information you can get by monitoring the loop
- current. Could you explain the purpose of A/A1 answer supervision?
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- Tom tmetro@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu
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