Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Don Lewis Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Loop Start vs Ground Start, a User Intro Message-ID: <6387@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Apr 90 06:27:46 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne, FL Lines: 33 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 254, Message 4 of 7 In article <6358@accuvax.nwu.edu> fmsystm!macy@cwjcc.ins.cwru.edu writes: >Now, one of the features that came out with the more sophisticated >Xbar system, and was to be continued with ESS was immediate splash of >ring. This feature put a brief splash of ring out on the line just as >the call "landed". This works well, but many newer CO's seem to drop >this feature when they are busy. You often hear a funny, mis-timed >"ring-ring" when the call lands, the splash of ring occurs and then >the normal ring timing cycle takes over. This reminds me of a problem I was having with my home phones. Periodically, I would get one of these funny rings, then silence. It sounded sort of like someone had called and hung up on the first ring. I found out that if I answered the phone anyway, the party calling me was still on the line. I believe sometimes I didn't get a ring at all. Trying to explain this to the repair people was usually interesting. What was frustrating was that this tended not to be very reproduceable, and when the repair person called back it would work fine. Usually they would then go off and check it out anyway, and then it would work for a few months before breaking again. It seems to be fixed now, it's been working ok for the last nine months or so. Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 UUCP: rutgers!soleil!thrush!del Melbourne, FL 32901 Phone: (407) 729-5205