NI-2 is far from ubiquitous. In Manitoba MTS uses only NI-1. Outside of Manitoba MTS uses NI-2. This is because Allstream used NI-2 so when MTS bought Allstream they inherited NI-2 equipment. However, as part of the deal the CRTC required MTS to effectively shutdown Allstream in Manitoba and migrate everyone to the MTS platform.
So for example we were an Allstream customer running on NI-2 and were forced to downgrade to NI-1 and lost functionality because of it. Much the same thing applies to Bell. Likely in any ILEC areas of Bell they are still NI-1, but any customers attached to equipment of companies (such as Global Telecom) that Bell bought is probably NI-2. This certainly applies to what used to be called "Bell West" which is everything Manitoba west. And I'd bet that out east, the old Aliant stuff is NI-1. John On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:23 -0500, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > Just got off a repair call with Bell. The tech said they only support NI-2 > out West. In Ontario he swore they have never supported NI-2, but I've been > installing sytems with NI-2 even before working with Asterisk, and this is > the first time I have heard of this in many years. I am pretty sure NI-2 is > now ubiquitous across North America. > > I even asked him to check with his colleauge, and they concurred: Bell does > not support NI-2 outside of Calgary, only NI-1. > > Label me confused. > > Jim > > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > Core Telecom Innovations > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.coretel.ca > 416-425-6111 x6001 > 877-CORETEL x6001 (Canada) > www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
