Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wanted: Recommendations For Small Key-System Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 05:23:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 124, Message 8 of 8 "Daniel M. Rosenberg" writes: > We have a 1232 as well, but I don't see how it's physically possible > for you to call-forward-no answer CO calls. I don't. The phone company provides the BY forwarding. But rather than have each modem a slave to a particular line, it is capable of answering another modem's line if that the second unit is not ready. For instance, call comes in on line one. Modem one answers. Call comes in on line two (courtesy Pac*Bell's busy forwarding). Modem two answers. Meanwhile line one has hung up, but the modem is not ready for another call. But a call comes in on line one again. After a delay, the Panasonic routes the call to modem three and the call is answered. No, I'm not doing any magic at the CO level, but the Panasonic prevents lines going unanswered because particular modems are not ready by sending the call to an available modem. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !