[cisco-voip] Types of PRIs: "Voice", "Voice, Video and Data", "Unrestricted Digital"

Robert Kulagowski rkulagow at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 11:25:45 EST 2008


Vance Shipley wrote:
> It's unfortunate that the telcos make this so difficult that
> everyone is really confused on what is a simple point.  When
> you place a call with ISDN a description of the bearer service
> required for the call is included.  If "Speech" is requested 
> the telco(s) handling the call may use echo cancellation,
> compression, etc. whereas if you asked for "56K data" or "64K
> unrestricted" they must not.  That's the basic technical issue.
> Everything else is telco tariff madness.

Right, and that's what I was trying to determine if I understood what I 
think I was talking about, or not.  Because our account manager sure 
doesn't seem to have the first clue.

So in an outbound call from a Polycom VSX 7000 connected via PRI to Ma 
Bell, what sort of bearer capability type is it going to be sending?

 From 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/debug/command/reference/db_ap2.html#wp1003938
it looks like it should be 0x8890, correct?



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