Point to Point PRI Norstar

[bdalida]

I have a lab at my office. I'm trying to do a point to point PRI with a MICS 5.0 to a BCM 2.5

I'm using a cross over cable I made. It works great if I set the systems up as regular T1's.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to make this work?

Thanks

 

[Arr]

PRI isn't open channel. It's still a switched network.

PhM

 

[salo0920]

I dont know about BCM, but on MICS you need a keycode for PRI.

Also, what protocol are you selecting? If you are using MCDN (private networking)(yet another keycode on MICS), you need to setup 1 as master and another as slave. That is the only way I have worked with a PRI switch to switch. That is not to say there are not other ways, its just the way I have done it.

If you are able to talk T1 to T1 then it sounds like the cable is correctly pinned. The PRI is just a protocol on top of the T1.

 

[bdalida]

I have PRI capabilties in both. I've tried NI-2 and DMS-100 protocols. You don't need the MCDN package if you are only doing a point to point PRI between to Norstars. I'm not worried about centralized Voice mail and the other advanced networking features.

With a cross over cable, can you get the D-channels to talk to each other? Sounds like if your using a open channel environment you won't get your d-channels to work. Like Arr stated.

Still curious if this is possible.

salo0920

Thanks for the input

 

[hawks]

As far as I know you need the SL1 protocol and the only way to get that is with the MCDN keycode. The 4.1 software had it built in but not 5.0 and up.

 

[salo0920]

I think Hawks has it right here. The only way I have successfully gotten 2 Norstars to talk via the PRI is using the SL-1 private networking protocol. This does require the MCDN keycode irrespective of whether you choose to take advantage of the other networking features it provides.

 

[bdalida]

MCDN keycode and SL-1 protocol was the answer.

Thanks for the help