Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: RTD TLAs (Request To Decode Three Letter Acronyms) Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 89 00:54:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Roy Smith Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 350, message 5 of 9 > All the major L.D. carriers who provide 800 service get the number on their > FGD (directs) or FGB (tandem) lines. Like I said in a previous posting, the > only time the carrier doesn't get the ANI is on FGC trunks Time out! I'm usually able to follow the jargonspeak on telecom, but I think I gotta call for help on this one. I've figured out that FGX is, I'm pretty sure, Feature Group X, but can somebody tell me what those feature groups mean? For example, we've got an AT&T System 25 PBX (or is PBX an outdated term?). Presumably the switching machinery at NYTel talks to our PBX over the trunk lines to tell it which extension to ring, and our PBX tells the NYTel gear that the call went through, or it's busy, etc. Does that mean our trunks have feature group something-or-other? And, what about ANI? Automatic Number Information? Just a guess. What does it really mean (i.e. what do the letter stand for, and what does it mean in terms of information transmitted)? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"