[comp.dcom.telecom] Answer Supervision Information Sought

Barton.Bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) (03/13/91)

Does anyone know for sure if an AT&T 85 can detect and use for SMDR
timing purposes answer supervision from the phone company?

First, on ground start trunks, then can they do it on trunks on a T1
(not ISDN, just 24 vanilla trunks)?

If not, is it lack of hardware support, s/w support, or both?

Is anyone getting answer supervision officially (either tariffed or
special assembly) in any NYNEX territory? If so, can you give USOC
codes or any special codes that would plainly identify it?

bill@jartel.info.com (Bill Cerny,Baja JarTel) (03/21/91)

In article <telecom11.203.3@eecs.nwu.edu> Barton F. Bruce writes:

> First, on ground start trunks, then can they do it on trunks on a T1
> (not ISDN, just 24 vanilla trunks)?

We've got Megacom WATS here (delivered over a T-1, E&M signalling).
Here's what the A&B bits do during a call:

				Terminal	Network
				--------	-------
Channel idle (on-hook)		   00		   00
Off-hook, no supervision yet	   11		   00
Answer supervision		   11		   11
Far end hangs up		   11		   00
Near end hangs up (on-hook)	   00		   00

I tried to get ground-start, dial tone trunks on the T-1 to the AT&T
4ESS, but I found out that the 4ESS only supports E&M signalling.