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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:19:38 GMT
- From: vixen!jadams@uunet.UU.NET (26070-adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: A/A1 Answer Supervision
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- In article <telecom12.688.10@eecs.nwu.edu>, Tom Metro <tmetro@ds5000.
- dac.northeastern.edu> writes:
-
- > leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
-
- >> dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu (Dave Grabowski) writes:
-
- >> 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?
-
- The A and A1 leads originate with Key Telephone Systems where their
- function was to operate {Can you say "A" Relay :-)!} relays in the Key
- System (Those grey colored boxes of various sizes which hung on walls
- or lurked in closets). The timing of these lead closures in relation
- to the presence of loop current is what operated the "Hold" feature of
- key systems.
-
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- Jack (John) Adams Bellcore RRC 4B-259
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