16A Announcement System

[trmg]

This is probably a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows how feasible it might be to convince the M1 to use CAS T1 channels with RAN routes? I have a Lucent 16A Announcement System that presents 24 announcement channels over CAS T1 (D4/AMI with E&M signalling) and was hoping to configure the trunks similarly to how you configure them for the MIRAN. I did some playing around and was unsuccessful. Seems if an RDB route entry is configured as trunk type RAN, it will not let me associate a T1 channel since I cannot also make that trunk type RAN.

I can configure the 16A to loop the announcement channels and provide the appropriate signalling to tell the M1 when the announcement is starting. My hope is that I can kludge the M1 into using the 16A as a source for continuous loop announcements.

Any ideas?

Thanks!