Re: Line Identification

Al Gillis wrote:
> Hi Crossbar!
>
> (That's a great name but its probably lost on most of the"kids".
> Regardless, I like it!)
>
> A couple of things... We have a gizmo on our Nortel 81c called a "Test
> Phone" made by Digital Techniques a few years ago. While it's "MD" now
> there may be some around. We dial it up and it "says" the number from
> which we're calling. It's an invaluable tool on larger moves and changes
> and even on repairs. It beats the old days when we called the Attendant and
> said "Hi, Suzy - what number am I calling from?" That technique worked OK
> when Suzy was in a mood to talk but when she was busy (most of the time) she
> quickly lost her sense of humor, if you know what I mean!
>
> From another post you related your frustrations with undocumented cable
> plant. Well, you're not alone! When we acquire real estate we just plan on
> gutting the existing cable plant and building out our own thing. I think it
> costs more to inventory and generate new records that it does to replace the
> cable! (That may not work in your case!). Also, for whatever it's worth,
> the City of Portland (Oregon) requires tenants to remove horizontal cable
> when they leave an office or store. Does that work? Not always, of course.
> But at least it attempts to give the new guy a starting point. I know that
> doesn't apply in your case, where you're just picking up maintenance on an
> existing system, but it's what we're supposed to do here.
>
> Good luck !!
>
> Al

Ya, we got a Test Phone too...those are convenient when you don't want
to interupt someone 30 times a day.

Odd issue with the 6 or 7 phones we have CLS DDGD. If you call the
Test Phone, it will read back the last phone that "was not CLS DDGD" -
that was a pain for a day or two :-)





Is this the Cisco rep using "Private Automatic Branch Exchange" to tell
someone else _they_ have something outdated?

>
> > Sounds like you have a very old PABX, normally you would expect the
> > internal number to be displayed at least when you call the reception
> > phone from individual phones.
> >
> > Kevin Martin

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