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Media Access Control Address - Dear Editor,Geoffrey Welsh responded to a question from Jay R. Ashworth. Geoffreymentioned "glare" in loop-start lines. Can you direct me to anyarticles that help you avoid glare in loop-start systems.Thank you.Eric JensonPortland, OR[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Perhaps Geoffrey Welsh or Jay Ashworthwill tell you what their research has turned up. One technique whichwill *greatly reduce* -- though admittedly not eliminate -- 'glare' onloop-start systems is the way you route the incoming/outgoingtraffic. Lets say you have a hundred outside lines in your system. Ifyou work with a main directory listed, or incoming number, youprobably have them 'hunt' along in sequence upward, so that if lineone is busy the central office will hunt for line two, then three, etcuntil it reaches line one hundred (in our example) and then return abusy signal to the caller. Meanwhile on your outgoing calls, you sendthe first call out to line one hundred, then subsequent outgoing callshunt backward to ninety-nine, nighty-eight, etc. If you have aroughly equal amount of incoming and outgoing traffic, the only'glare' possibly occurs somewhere in the middle, where the incomingand outgoing traffic meet. Always put the outgoing calls where it isunlikely the call will run into or bump an incoming call. That willeliminate most 'glare' conditions. PAT]
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