Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: mitel!spock!grayt@uunet.uu.net (Tom Gray) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Distinctive-Ring Based Call Distributor Message-ID: <12589@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 09:10:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Tom Gray Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada. Lines: 26 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 678, Message 3 of 10 In article <12415@accuvax.nwu.edu> limhl@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Hui Lin Lim) writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 665, Message 3 of 9 >> I seem to recall a request posted here a couple of months ago asking >> whether there was any such beast as a call distribution device (for >> the home) based on Distinctive Ringing Service offered by the LECs > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> (variously sold as RingMaster, SmartRing, RingMate around the country, >> in which multiple numbers mapped to the same line generate different >> ring patterns). Well, here are excerpts from a recent article >> describing just such a device. >Could anyone elaborate on how this service is provided? Does it >require an ISDN switch etc? This is just dressed up party line service. Different ringing codes are supplied for different directory number assigned to the same loop. The easiest switch to implement this service would be a step by step - just cross connect the connector outputs for the various directory numbers on the MDF. An ISDN switch requires an amazing amount of software to do the same function - ie assign multiple DN's to the same line circuit. Any switch sold in North America in the last 60 years will have the capability of providing party line service and this new new ultra-modern Distinctive Ringing Service (an extra cost item).