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Re: (ASCEND) Quiescenting PRIs
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Him You Ten wrote:
> >
> > > When I need to do upgrades, I pretty much follow the same steps
> > > as you. I start by quiescing the PRIs on the machines affected. This DOES
> > > give an "Equipment Busy" to our carrier. Calls naturally roll over to the
> > > next PRI that is not busy. We once had a big problem doing this
> > > with 5.0Ap5, or 6. Calls stopped rolling over to the next PRI, I then
> > > moved to Ap16 and never had any problems since. What code are you running?
> >
> > Have you found it to be reliable?
>
> Yes very, Bell doesn't really like it because of the fact that
> they will get alarms after a periode of time. What I usually do when all
> of our customers are off the quiesced PRIs, is to put a loopback plug on
> ou DSX panel. Just in case your not in the Telco business, that's where we
> get our T1/PRI terminated. In your case you probably have rack mounted
> Bell Larson or something like that unit. Next time Bell comes to install
> new circuit, ask the to show you how to put it in loopback and how to take
> it off. This way Bell never gets any alarms.
> If I couldn't do this, it would be hell to maintant those Ascend.
>
We are the CO. Our TNT's are directly connected to a Nortel DMS
500. The alarms are minor invconveniences to the RBOC CO, but
the alarm is an out so I can't say I blame them for not liking
it.
Our experience has been the queise<sp!> is not reliable. Perhaps
I should revisit this.
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