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Making Explicit Call Transfers (ECT) With E1 ISDN and BRI

Making Explicit Call Transfers (ECT)

With E1 ISDN and BRI

Explicit call transfer (ECT) with E1 ISDN transfers calls using either a single B-channel or two B-channels using switch resources in the central office or PBX. Explicit call transfer is only used with the Bfv API, and is available on ISDN PRI (E1) and ISDN BRI.

To configure using the Brooktrout Configuration Tool (Windows® only):

„Set each port’s Protocol Options to E1 ISDN or BRI.

„Set your network’s Protocol to the appropriate protocol type, such as EURO.

„Set your network’s Switch Type to the appropriate switch type, set to Unknown/ITU conformant.

„Set the Transfer Variant to Explicit Call Transfer.

„Set the country_code in BTCall Parameters, leave as the default 0010.

Note: You must be in Advanced Mode in the Brooktrout Configuration

Tool to configure BTCall Parameters.

To configure using configuration files:

„Set the port configuration using the callctrl.cfg configuration file: port_config=E1_ISDN

„Set the protocol using the callctrl.cfg configuration file: protocol=EURO

„Set the switch type using the callctrl.cfg configuration file, such as:

switch_type=unknown

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