Nortel Networks Circuit Card User Manual

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 NT8D14 Universal Trunk card
Ground start operation
Ground start operation is configured in software and implemented through 
software download messages. In the idle state, the tip conductor from the CO 
is open and a high-resistance negative battery is present on the ring lead.
Incoming calls
In an incoming call, after ground is detected on the tip, the universal trunk 
card scans for a ringing detection signal before presenting the call to an 
attendant and tripping the ringing. When the attendant answers, a low 
resistance is placed across the tip and ring conductors, which trips CO ringing 
and establishes a speech path. See Figure 119 on 
.
 
Reverse-wiring compensation
The CS 1000 Release 4.5 software includes a feature for detecting reverse 
wiring (connection of the near-end tip and ring leads to the far-end ring and 
tip leads) on ground start trunks with far-end answer supervision. 
Ordinarily, an incoming call on a reverse-wired trunk without reverse-wiring 
compensation presents ringing on the tip lead rather than on the ring lead. 
Since the software expects to see a ground on the tip lead, it interprets the end 
of the first ringing signal as a switchhook flash. But since the interval between 
ringing signals exceeds the switchhook flash time of 512 milliseconds, the 
software assumes a far-end disconnect. This causes the call to be presented to 
a console loop key and then immediately removed.
The reverse-wiring compensation feature operates as follows. If an apparent 
disconnect takes place immediately after the first ringing signal, the software 
time stamps the event and temporarily remove the call from the console loop 
key. 
If another such ringing/disconnect event occurs during the No Ringing 
Detector (NRD) time, the trunk is considered “possibly reverse-wired” and a 
threshold counter starts. Calls on trunks identified as possibly reverse-wired 
are presented to the attendant during the initial ring, removed, and then 
continuously presented after the second ring. If a call on a possibly 
reverse-wired trunk is abandoned before the attendant answers, it is 
disconnected after the NRD timer expires.