I am sure someone up there knows something about 5ESS and portmaster 2.
Our local teleco does not seem to know what SPID is. As far as I know
according to the livingston manual, I should set up SPID in order to
use ISDN.(well actually it is not true for switch type NTT.)
I even call the company who sold the 5ESS to the teleco, Lucent
Techonologies, Japan, they could not help us all.
According a field engineer, he has never heard of it. He looked up
the manual, he could not find SPID.
Now this bring me to ask someone in this group.
1. What SPID is called in teleco lingo?
2. what switch types are capable with lucent 5ESS?
2.1 why can I find out which switch type we are really getting?
2.3 all I know from the teleco is their telecom "machine" is called 5ESS.
2.4 They believe 5ESS is the switch type but ...
3. what network layer does this SPID setting is used?
3.1 any more info on this SPID on ITU 400s ?
4. Does anyone use portmaster 2 with BRI on 5ESS switch type?
5. Any direct number to lucent Techologies that I could ask some questions
about SPID and 5ESS stuff?
6. Any suggestions?
sincerely yours,
Tatsuya
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Now for the bonus question of the day: Does your Telco support ISDN? Just
because they have a 5ESS doesn't mean that they have the line cards to offer
BRI service.
Here is a brief explanation of SPIDs taken from an email I saved long long
ago. Hope it helps...
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There's not much to it. Simply put, SPIDs identify to the phone company
what types of services and features are supported for a given device.
SPIDs are optional in the ISDN standard, but usually required in North
America. As I said above, SPIDs are usually 12 digit numbers consisting
of the area code, 7 digit number and some trailing 0s and/or 1s. For
example: 408 555 1212 00). The DN (Direct Number) is simply the "normal"
7 digit phone number. For example: 555 1212.
There are three switch types the LS-ISDN and NI2B Dual-BRI card support:
AT&T 5ESS, Northern Telecom DMS100 and National ISDN-1 (NI1). If a ISDN
service provider is using an AT&T 5ESS with a software revision lower than
5E8, then most likely the 5E can not support NI1. In this case, SPIDs are
not required. However, if they have the 5E set-up for NI1, they will
tell you to set up your equipment for NI1 and they will provide SPIDs and
DNs. Same for the DMS-100...expect that SPIDs and DNs are usually always
required for the DMS-100, regardless if the switch is setup for NI1 or
DMS-100.
I beleive they do. Well, at least they claim they do AND
they tested via cisco, it worked fine. Needless to say, whomever
configured cisco, did not need to know SPID.
The question to you is that WHY?
I attached their configuration.
tatsuya
かわさき
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Business Network Telecom (BNT)
ビジネスネットワークテレコム株式会社
〒111-0053 東京都台東区浅草橋3-8-5
31山京ビル6階
TEL 03-5687-3945 FAX 03-5687-6009
