chippowell
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In a CS1K E, the MGC card seems like a single failure point on a cabinet full of digital/analog/trunk cards. Any way to mitigate this risk? How do you keep phones up in a cabinet where the MGC card goes bad?
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MGC card in CS1K - single failure point
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Dual homing protects you from a network failure, but if the MGC dies that cabinet and everything attached to it goes offline, end of story. No way around that with TDM telephones. In my experience, MGCs seem to be fairly reliable. Its typically the data network that is to blame when a MGC falls off the face of the earth.
it's no different than losing a fiber receiver card on an old option 11c, but because the MGC is designed to reboot if it finds a fault, or the LAN goes down or the IP path no longer exists to the Call server, it has more potentials to cause outages then the old fiber receiver cards. but, the whole purpose of these systems is to go VoIP.....so if you had a bunch of IP phones, MGC going down, would not have such a drastic effect (unless your pri and VM are in that chassis or cabinet).
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