B Channel Summary

Use the B channel summary screen for the following:

Fields

Field

Description

Line

Line number. The line number occurs only on the DataFire RAS B4STU adapters. There are 4 lines for every DataFire RAS B4STU adapter.

Channel Channel number. Possible values are 1-23 for PRI , 1-24 for a Channelized T1 , 1-30 for E1, or 1-2 for BRI. 

Connect Time

Duration of the current connection in days, hours, minutes and seconds

State

Possible values are Inbound, Outbound, Busied Out, Inbound/Delayed Busy Out, and Outbound/Delayed Busy Out.

Inbound means that the remote side initiated the connection. 

Outbound means that this system initiated the connection.

Busied Out means that a channel is in the busied out state. 

Inbound/Delayed Busy Out means that a channel with an inbound connection is in a delayed busy out condition. That is, when the connection ends the channel will be put in a busy out state. 

Outbound/Delayed Busy Out means that a channel with an outbound connection is in a delayed busy out condition.

Channel Rate

Channel rate, expressed in bits per second

Cyclic Redundancy 
Check (CRC) Errors

Number of CRC errors that have occurred since the last reset. If this number is more than usual or if you are losing data or receiving slow throughput, contact your telephone company.