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[John R. Covert]

I didn't reply to this discussion because (a) I've been busier
than a Xbar tandem on election night and (b) I thought that
Duncan Smith would see the thread and put in a more up-to-date
and definitive response.  Plus he deserves all the credit for
the real work at the museum; I've only been the constant nag.
I just talked to him, and he says he replied, but I don't see
his reply in the archive.  Message failure seems to be an
all-too-common problem, especially with the archives, where
the last message is currently Wed May 21 21:26:31 2008.

The Seattle Museum has had an Asterisk Server up and running for
quite a while.  It generally stays up all the time, but their
router sometimes whacks out and takes them down.  Unfortunately,
at the moment, the Asterisk server itself is down due to a Linux
problem, and Duncan will not have another Tuesday free for work
at the museum until mid-June (looking at the UWash Academic
calendar, finals week is June 9-13), so we won't see anything
online again until he has some free time.

When the asterisk server is up, there is an announcement (from
Asterisk) on at least 1-232-0001.  When the museum is open,
8:30 am until 2pm Seattle time on Tuesdays, a T1 connection
from the server to a channel bank provides connectivity into
the No. 5 Xbar.

Working No. 5 Xbar numbers are (among others) 1-232-0015 at
the test board and -0939 in the key system that reaches desk
phones around the floor.  There is a significant echo problem
in the channel bank that has not been able to be solved.  I've
hoped that maybe Phil McCarter might someday have a Tuesday
free to help out with a solution to that problem, since his
switches don't seem to have any serious echo.

Duncan has also been working on getting the No 3 ESS online.
It is normally left powered up when the museum shuts down,
but the channel bank is on the power supply that shuts down.
Maybe that could be changed; and then we'd have the No 3 ESS
available even outside museum hours.  Until then, it's just
Asterisk (once the current Asterisk problem gets solved)
unless the museum is open, and then the No 5 Xbar is online.

Regards/john