covert@COVERT.DEC.COM.UUCP (07/29/86)
>MF signaling has clearly entered the private sector, as it has been available >for several years in many areas from a telephone company CO on DID trunks to >customer-owned PABX's equipped with direct inward dialing. Clearly customers >owning and companies maintaining such PABX's have a need to possess MF senders >for test purposes. Only partly true. I have yet to see a TELCO willing to send anything but dial pulse or DTMF (Touch-Tone) on PBX DID trunks, and in some cases even getting that is quite difficult. MF seems to only be used on PBX-PBX tie trunks, and never on any PBXs from Western Electric. /john