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Using Outdial TAP
Using Outdial TAP
To use Outdial TAP to send pages to another paging terminal, you will need to determine
what phone number to call to place TAP pages on the other terminal and the baud rate to
call at. Also, you will need to select a symbolic name by which the other terminal will be
identified. This name should be meaningful to you as far as indicating that it is a TAP
destination. Names such as “REMOTE” or “San Jose” would work; what is important is
that it is recognizable as marking pages being sent to another paging system.
You will also need to set up accounts on the other terminal for those subscribers who are to
receive TAP pages there. On your terminal those subscribers will need to be given
Network destinations, using the symbolic name of the other terminal, and have their
subscriber ID for the other terminal listed in the “ID” field of the network destination.
The phone number of the other terminal will be set up in the parameter programming for
the outdial TAP card. Batching controls and retry limits for that number will be set up as
well. These programmable parameters are detailed in Series 2000 Paging Terminals
Installation and Maintenance.
On your paging terminal, the symbolic destination name will be “mapped” to one or more
actual paging destinations. Obviously for outdial TAP, at least one of the actual
destinations will be a destination number on the TAP outdial TAP card. More than a single
TAP destination may be selected within a single symbolic destination name, provided that
a subscriber has the same ID on all of those terminals. The symbolic destination may also
select one or more local RF destinations, and TNPP destinations are valid as well. This
allows TAP to be used both as a store and forward machine, with the terminal doing no
local paging and as a paging area extender, where pages are done both locally and at a
remote site.
Outdial TAP has a large set of programmable options for each destination that it may call.
Some of these, such as the number to dial, will need to be set for each active destination.
Others, such as the maximum number of pages to transfer in any one call, normally would
not need setting.
Besides the dialing string, it is quite likely that the batching parameters for each
destination will need to be set. The batching control parameters adjust how many pages
may be waiting for a destination and how long to hold those pages for before calling the
destination. The batching control parameters include the following important settings:
Yellow Time Time to hold a page of priority one (lowest priority) before
calling its TAP destination.
Scaling Factor The priority multiplier for yellow time. Each increase of one in
a page’s priority will in effect reduce that page’s yellow time
by Scaling Factor worth of seconds.
Maximum Batch Size The maximum number of pages to allow a destination to have
batched, before forcing a call to that destination. This value
may range from 1 to 255, with 255 being the default.