On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Will Stephenson wrote:

> Hello!
>
> This subject came up a few days ago and since I know someone with this type
> of knowledge, I asked him. Here's his response:
>
> "He would have to have the phone company move his BRIs to Centrex, which can
> do more complex things like hunting, or find a
> provider(TaylorCommunications-type people) who can do it within their
> existing PBX or whatever they have for a phone system. Hunting is a function
> of a sophisticated switch, whether the telco's or theirs.  No other way to
> get around it that I know of -
>
> Oops, one other way, and that would be to convert their 5 BRIs to a PRI,
> like our incoming lines.  However, that is a bit of an expense to pay for a
> PRI each month."
>
> HTH
>

Can't remember if I'm the one who responded previously, nonetheless BRI or
PRI are just digital pathways for information to traverse spans of
geographical territory.  The phone numbers allocated to that hunt group
still have to be managed by a switch either on the LEC's end or local to
the business.  ISDN BRI's can be brought into  a facility over existing
(or new) channelized T-1's, I believe.  Why would changing the pathway
change the requirement?

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