Kevin, PRI's in the TC work well for us. We simply default the DPS card entirely - "Restore T1 and modems from Default" "Restore Template 1/2/3/4 from Default" and then save all of those individually to NVRAM. And the cards default to working PRI cards. The default settings that we verify are: PRI Span / Trunk Settings Framing Code...................dsx1ESF Line Coding Options.........dsx1B8ZS Signal Mode..............messageOriented NIC Type...................shorthaul Dial In Address...................dnis Dial In/Out Trunk Start Signal...........wink Primary Switch Type..............priSwNI2 Idle Byte Pattern...................254 Receiver Gain...................db26 Tone Type...................dtmf Number of DTMF Tones...................4 PRI Card / Card Level / Routing Method Modem Routing Method..............firstAvailable

From what I can see, the only thing that I would change is to set "wink" We have been able to bring up a PRI no matter which "Primary Switch Type" we select, which of course causes some confusion in what it should really be set to.

-Wayne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Hemsley" <kev@ida.net> To: <USR-TC@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: [USR-TC] Switching from CT1 to PRI

We are switching from channelized T1s to PRI at a few POPs. The first test isn't going well. The only thing the telco (Qwest) can tell me is ESF and B8ZF and the switch type of DMS-100. However, he said to use NI2 on a TotalControl chassis even though the switch is a DMS100. All I get when calling is a busy. The tech turning things up just says that we aren't talking, and he isn't providing any more input. I have played with config settings, and I can't seem to make any difference. I am running TCS 4.5 versions on all cards. I'm totally new to PRI so any suggestions would be appreciated. Listed below are my settings for the 1st Span which is also carrying the D channel. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

TRUNK SETTINGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Framing Mode dsx1ESF Line Coding Options dsx1B8ZS Circuit Identifier Loopback Configuration dsx1NoLoop Signal Mode messageOriented Transmit Clock Source loopTiming NIC Type shortHaul Response to Remote Loopback ignore Jitter Attenuation attenJitterOnTxmtr Transmit Line Build Out dB0pt0 Dial In Address dnis Dial In/Out Trunk Start Signal Type immediate Ack Wink On Dial In Address Info Received enabled Dial Out Address Delay 70 Dial In/Out Trunk Type eAndMTypeII Primary Switch Type priSwNI2 Idle Byte Pattern 254 Receiver Gain dB26 Tone Type dtmf Number of DTMF Tones 4 Send Code dsx1SendNoCode External Signaling Mode (will take effect next boot) none Overlap Receiving Mode disable Overlap Receiving Inbound Digits Expected 12 Overlap Receiving Timeout Delay 12

NFAS SETTINGS -------------------------------------------------------------------- NFAS Interface ID 0 Logical Group Number 0 NFAS Span D-Channel Type dChannelPrimary Logical Group Type nfas

list chassis on ARC 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------ Slot Owner Description Ports Type Console 1 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 2 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 3 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 4 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 5 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 6 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 7 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 23 STATIC NO 8 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 9 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 10 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 11 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 12 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 13 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 14 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 23 STATIC NO 15 NO --EMPTY-- 0 STATIC NO 16 NO --EMPTY-- 0 STATIC NO

list chassis on ARC 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------ Slot Owner Description Ports Type Console 1 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 2 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 3 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 4 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 5 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 6 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 7 NO 24 Channel High Density Modem 23 STATIC NO 8 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 9 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 10 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 11 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 12 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 13 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 24 STATIC NO 14 YES 24 Channel High Density Modem 23 STATIC NO 15 NO --EMPTY-- 0 STATIC NO 16 NO --EMPTY-- 0 STATIC NO

Thanks, Kevin. ------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Hemsley Systems Engineer Microserv Computer Technologies, Inc. kev@ida.net NF7J

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin Hemsley wrote:

I have played with config settings, and I can't seem to make any difference.

One thing I found out on some cards I was working with today (3.5.12) is that a cycle of saving to nvram and issuing a "software reset" didn't make my changes take effect. We had to change switch types from NI-2 to NI-1 (dms100), and found two problems: -switch showed D channel down, dsp card showed it up -a hardware reset and/or "remove from service/restore to service" was needed to fully realize the new switch type setting. As to other comments about settings, keep in mind many of these have no effect when you go from robbed-bit (CT1) to message-oriented (PRI) signalling. loop/ground start and immediate as well as wink settings have no effect on a PRI, and switch type has no effect on a CT1 (as well as some other settings, not sitting in front of Total Config Mangler). C