Below are the questions. Your detailed answers will be highly appreciated.<br><br>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system meets the guaranteed maximum value of voice distortion and
specify the offered solution's design distortion values.</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system has a guaranteed maximum value of loudness and specify the
offered solution's design loudness criterion.</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the maximum guaranteed jitter and explain how it compensates for, or minimize
jitter in their system (including the design criteria for size of the
jitter-buffers).</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the maximum guaranteed packet loss-rate. Confirm this rate and the adopted
strategy for compensating for, or minimising packet loss in the system.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">5.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
that the system employs industry-standard or proprietary measures for packet
recovery.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">6.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system has a guaranteed maximum value of system-additive noise and
specify the offered solution's design level of additive noise.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">7.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system has a guaranteed maximum value of fade-distortion and
specify the offered solution's design fade level.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">8.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system has a guaranteed maximum value of cross-talk and<span style="">&nbsp; </span>shall specify the offered solution's design
cross-talk limit.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">9.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered solution has a guaranteed, well-defined design voice quality score
against an objective industry-standard clarity assessment system (such as ITU-T
P.561/P.562). Either intrusive or non-intrusive measurement schemes shall be
used and specify the test strategy including the test frequency-domain span.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">10.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the equipment achieves silence suppression and injects comfort noise into the
circuit, without loss of the side-tone and <span style="">&nbsp;</span>specify the offered solution's design
voice-suppression depth</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">11.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered solution has a guaranteed maximum latency. The contributions to the
latency shall be disclosed.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">12.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered solution has echo-canceller meeting or exceeding performance in
ITU-G.165/G.168, and able to support ITU-T G.168-2002. An objective measure of
PACE shall be specified.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">13.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered system compensates for front-end clipping and holdover suffered by
a voice signal input. The implemented mitigation scheme shall be specified.</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the offered solution has bandwidth gain. The techniques used to achieve the
gain and the contribution from each technique shall be specified.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">15.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm
the <span style="color: black;">offered solution's
optimal environmental condition metrics. The optimal ambient metrics shall be
disclosed (including but not limited to optimal temperature, altitude, air
pressure, humidity, noise and shock resistance).</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">16.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Confirm the</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">offered system's
</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">electromagnetic power
immunity from and emission into the environment and <span style="">&nbsp;</span>shall clearly state the compatibility
certification for the proposed system. </span></p>

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<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anton</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:anton.vazir@gmail.com">anton.vazir@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Can you post that questions here?<br><br>On 22 November 2006 19:04, Sam Njenga wrote:<br>&gt; Hi<br>&gt; I am interconnecting to a telco provider using chan_ss7.<br>&gt; I have opted to use asterisk for this. I am quite<br>
&gt; conversant with asterisk configuration and little<br>&gt; knowledge about ss7. I have done back-2back tests between<br>&gt; two asterisk boxes and calls pass perfectly.<br>&gt; The local telco has requested me to fill a technical
<br>&gt; interconnection questionare about my system. Some of the<br>&gt; questions require detailed explanations.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Can someone with SS7 knowledge assist me on this ?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Sam<br>_______________________________________________
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