Cisco ISDN Switch Type IOS Commands Voice Gateway
For any ISDN Line to establish a Layer 1 connectivity, the switch type has to be defined and switch type is country specific. Sometimes when you taken an ISDN Connection from your service provider, they might not be aware of the switch type you should be using when you deploy/configure ISDN. In such cases we have to refer to country specific switch type and try with those commands.
The command is : Isdn switch-type [switch-type]
Below are the list of country specific switch type and it’s respective command.
| Telco switch type | Cisco Command |
| AT&T 4ESS (ISDN PRI only) for the US | primary-4ess |
| AT&T 5ESS (ISDN PRI only) for the US | primary-5ess |
| AT&T basic rate switch type | basic-5ess |
| Australian TS013 switch type | basic-ts013 |
| DPNSS switch type for Europe | primary-dpnss |
| European and Australian ISDN PRI switch type | primary-net5 |
| French VN2 ISDN switch type for ISDN BRI only | vn2 |
| French VN3 ISDN switch type for ISDN BRI only | vn3 |
| French VN4 ISDN switch type for ISDN BRI only | vn4 |
| National ISDN switch type | primary-ni |
| National ISDN-1 switch type | basic-ni1 |
| NET3 switch type (Europe, U.K., Australia & Asia) | basic-net3 |
| New Zealand Net3 switch type | basic-nznet3 |
| No switch type | none |
| Nortel DMS-100 (ISDN PRI only) for the US | primary-dms100 |
| Nortel DMS-100 basic rate switch type | basic-dms100 |
| Norway Net3 switch type | basic-nwnet3 |
| NTT ISDN PRI switch type (Japan) | primary-ntt |
| PINX (PBS) switches with QSIG signalling per Q.931 | basic-qsig |
| QSIG signalling per Q.931 | primary-qsig |
| TS014 Switch type for Australia | primary-ts014 |
Hope this helps
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