On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 06:20:01PM -0700, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote: [ David Lesher:]
Just want to make sure all parties here do not think ANI == CNID. They are different critters. You get CNID usually. Real time ANI is available on 800 trunks, but at a cost.
I realize this is probably something one learns in Telco 101, which I haven't taken, but if CNID == Caller ID, wouldn't ANI be *more* useful?
Sometimes. CNID bounces around with forwarded calls, as was pointed out to me in private mail earlier today, whilst ANI will be from the _last_ site in a forwarding chain -- since that's the only place an INWATS subscriber is paying for a call from.
Or does CNID report the number regardless of Caller-ID blocking on PRI lines/etc?
No, CNID is Caller-ID. Blocking is _supposed_ to be implemented by the _terminating_ end office. If you receive your traffic over dedicated trunks from an IXC, rather than a LEC, you're not _supposed_ to get it... but I'd be unsurprised if some IXC's get this wrong. I _would_ be surprised if many LEC's were blowing this.
(I'm assuming that CNID == standard Caller-ID as it appears on POTS, and that ANI == the special service that 800-lines get that *always* reports the number, regardless of blocking..if I'm wrong, I'll accept the LART.)
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