On 3/15/22 06:51, Mike Hammett wrote:
Our test equipment vendor (Exfo) has asked us about these capabilities,
"milliwatt tone, quiet termination, or silent switchman." I don't know
that I've seen the ability to configure those anywhere.
How would I go about setting that up? I'm assuming that requires that my
switch (Metaswitch) and endpoints (Zhone, Grandstream, Calix, Occam, and
Innomedia) support them as well. I'm sure I can get platform-specific
details from each of the vendors, but I'd like gain a bit of knowledge
on that whole process before delving into vendor details.
The test numbers are a function of the switch. The endpoints need no
configuration or support. To the endpoints, the test numbers are simply
a dialable phone number like any other.
If Metaswitch doesn't have configurable options for milliwatt and silent
termination, an Asterisk or similar box can easily do so. This is very
lightweight and can run on a Raspberry Pi if needed.
The milliwatt is used to test for line loss and level and silent
termination for hybrid balance.
Essentially these are dialable numbers that in the first case answer
with a 1004 Hz tone sent at a level of one milliwatt and in the second
answer with silence matching the line impedance with return loss as high
as possible.
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Jay Hennigan - [email protected]
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
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