Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing Configuring the VSID, HSID, and AML prompts

296Chapter 12: Meridian 1 configuration for Meridian Link/CCR

Configuring the VSID, HSID, and AML prompts

When you are configuring the Meridian 1, you will encounter the VSID, HSID, and AML prompts in LD17, LD15 and LD23. If you are adding Meridian Link or CCR to an IPE Module or an Application Module to create a co-resident system, you should understand what these prompts mean to avoid confusion.

A Value-Added Service Identifier (VAS ID) is a number ranging from 0 through 15 that identifies a link as an Application Module Link (AML). A Meridian 1 system with a single IPE Module or Application Module, used for Meridian Link or CCR or both, has only one AML and so requires only one VAS ID. A Meridian 1 system with two modules (two Application Modules, two IPE Modules, or one of each), with Meridian Link activated in one module and CCR activated in another, requires two AMLs, and so requires two different VAS IDs. The system with two modules requires the Host Service Identifier (HSID) to identify the AML that is connected to the module that has Meridian Link activated.

The following four examples describe how the prompts are used.

¥A Meridian 1 with a single IPE Module or Application Module with either Meridian Link or CCR (but not both) activated:

ÑVSID prompt (LD17) Enter a value to define the VAS ID to be associated with the AML.

ÑAML prompt (LD17) Enter the ESDI or MSDL port number to be associated with the VAS ID.

ÑVSID prompt (LD15) Enter the value from the VSID prompt in LD17.

ÑVSID prompt (LD23) Enter the value from the VSID prompt in LD17.

ÑHSID prompt (LD23) Do not enter a value.

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998