Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: decvax!decwrl!apple!zygot!john@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: RJ21X and regulations Message-ID: Date: 20 May 89 04:14:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: ATI Wares Team Lines: 45 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 171, message 2 of 3 In article , OLE@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen) writes: > Pacific Bell has quite a different idea about what an RJ21X should > look like. As the person responsible for our company's phone system, It's not Pacific Bell, it's whoever comes out to do the work. There are two types of installers: those that want to get the job done and those that like to play like little Nazis. I have been involved with phone systems ranging from 2 line key systems to multi-site PBXs and there are as many interpretations concerning what the rules say as there are installers in the field. > I was recently served with a "Violation Notice" and given two weeks to > wire our lines to the 66 block VIA the amphenol connector. The > straight "them on one side --- us on the other" with bridging clips in > between is NOT ALLOWED here. I was told that if I did not correct the > problem, service would be terminated. If you receive service by means > of an RJ21X, the phone company wants to have the ability to disconnect > all of your lines with one simple yank of the amphenol plug, wonderful. If any repair person pulled the amphenol off any of my RJs in the process of testing one line, he would be looking for a new job--I guarantee it. > inside a phone closet in the building). The reason is apparently that > you are not supposed to have lines with different "class of service" > on the same 66 block. When I explained that we already had a mixture On one RJ21X block in Pac*Bell land I have the following: 8 Ground Start PBX incoming trunks 4 Ground Start PBX outgoing trunks 3 Sprint Pro-Wats Lines 1 Pac*Bell Metro 800 Line 1 Ground Start DISA access Line 2 Loop Start Modem Lines 1 PBX outgoing OPX No one, but no one has ever given me the slightest comment about this. If anyone ever does, he will be given certain directions concerning impossible anatomical acts he can perform on himself. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.uucp | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !