QSIG??? 2

[TelecomTommy]

Hi,

I am buying a new PBX and need to link it to my other Siemens....

Does anyone know if QSIG is a built-in feature in the 4800? If not what will it take to enable it? What about the older Series 80 as I have one of these also?

Thanks
Tommy

 

[GMgerry]

I believe you might be referring to CORNET. That is what Siemens uses for networking. QSIG is more for VM.

 

[donb01]

Well, if we're talking about connectivity via CorNet here, this is it in a nutshell... (I don't know the 4800 so I'm working off a quote I have).

You probably need a DIU2U digital trunk interface card for the 4800 - I believe buying the card licenses it on that platform but not sure. Then, assuming by series 80 you are referring to the 9751 Model 80 running 9006 software, you need a TMDN or TMDN64 card depending on your software release that needs to be plugged into a slot that is programmed for it (wired for), you need to have licensed the RolmNet software, probably SatOps and have sufficient licenses for the trunk ports, etc. Then you connect the 2 sites together with a DS1 circuit (T1) using the CSU's and other required cables, etc.

That gets your hardware connected together. Now you have to create a trunk group on both sides, create a route pointing to the trunk group, and point your extensions or other traffic to that route so they go across to the other side. It works rather slick, passes caller-id, allows auto-callback and several other functions.

In my case my voice WAN is set up hub and spoke. All the remote sites tie back to the main site in the center that knows who everyone is and where they go. All the remote sites are set up so if they don't know who it is they send it to the main site for routing. In the event one of the links fails we can still call between sites with 7-digits, so it's no big deal other than they lose access to PhoneMail which is sitting out in the middle. All of my remote sites have their own trunking to the world so all sites can survive independent of the others, and if the outside trunking fails to one of the sites I can fail those trunks over to the main site by making a phone call to activate the disaster plan, and I can route their traffic across the private network (albeit congested) until the problem is resolved.

CorNet is pretty cool in my humble opinion!

 

[Silverblade]

Here's also someone who doesn't know the 4800. Only the the 38xx serie of siemens.
But one thing i can tell u is the following.
Cornet is a protocol used by siemens only for siemens pabx networking so if this other other pabx is not a siemens you can forget about Cornet.
Furthermore is that on the 38xx series qsig only can be used on ISDN cannels.
So if this is the same on a 4800 u can make a trunk with qsig via a e1/t1 board.

gl

 

[TelecomTommy]

Thank you for the responses....So I will need a T1 card on the Siemens Series 80 and what else?? This is going to be tied to a Nortel CS1000

Thanks
Tommy

 

[donb01]

I don't know if you can CorNet the Siemens to the Nortel - I'd have to look in the book, but you can also configure the T1 as Tie/OPX Trunks or something and do it that way - that might be the easiest way to route calls cross-platform like that.

 

[GMgerry]

Wow donbo1 you have books. We have had a 4000 for four years and can never get any real books on the system. Siemens says we can't have them because we are not a registared self maintainer. BS.

 

[donb01]

Cost me a case of beer, but I have acquired the complete 3-disk set of Siemens documentation. I basically have everything the techs have. Doesn't mean I have the ability or balls to use it all, but I do have it.

And to defer the questions that are arising in everyone's mind, No, I can't send you the manual for such and such. Some of the PDF files are way bigger than even G-mail would let me send, and others are a whole directory of HTML files that once zipped up would probably be equally huge.

However if I have the time I do try to go out and look up the answers for people's questions. )

You can't be a registered self-maintainer until you pay them lots of money to get certified on something. I'm SoHK and RTFM certified but that doesn't matter to them!

 

[GMgerry]

Documentation and Siemens is the worst in the industry. We had a meeting with them about it and they stated, "Siemens is a reactionary organization. If you want something we'll get it for you, but just that nothing more" In other words, you want documentation on a feature, you only will get that information not all the features.

I called a Nortel rep shortly after that meeting and asked for a feature guide on what there PBX will do. I got four major CDs packed with information. Sill waiting on Siemens to just get me the basics.

No wonder nobody wants to buy the company.

 

[DoctorTouchtone]

QSIG is optional in most PBXs...Siemens and Nortel can talk QSIG between them...via ISDN PRI. Cornet is for Siemens-Siemens (or ROLMs with 9006m software) only.
Have the NTPs from Nortel (CS1000/Option Meridian PBX) and Siemens both (TDM and IP, talk about begging . You can find the Siemens CDs on Ebay but usually they dont have the current VoiP stuff in it.
In the MOD 80, go into EMML and use the AMO FEATPUR (I think thats it) to see if QSIG is in it..In the Nortel, I cannot recall the LD to print what features are in the switch (LD20 PRT ISS comes to mind but dont quote me)

 

[dcross]

On the Nortel it is LD 22 REQ= PKG then it will list all the package in the PBX and for QSIG is 263. You need also need the following packages 19, 145, 146, 154, 184, 202 for all the features to work over QSIN