DPNSS was developed in the early 1980s by BT, or its forerunner, Post Office Telecommunications in recognition that the emerging Digital Private Circuit Primary Rate product ' Megastream ' had to address the market for both data and voice, the latter being significantly greater because of the market for PBXs.

DPNSS was an active ( and successful ) collaboration between PBX manufacturers and BT which started relatively slowly ( BT & Plessey ) but quickly snowballed with MITEL, GEC, Ericsson, Phillips and eventually Nortel all joining to create a powerful and feature rich protocol.

BT and some of the UK manufacturers championed DPNSS into ECMA and CCITT ( ITU ) but it was eventually deprecated by the standards bodies in favour of Q931 and QSig.

Version 1 of BTNR188 ( DPNSS ) was issued in 1983 ; the last version of DPNSS to be released 6 in 1995 included compatibility with ISDN features released in V5.

A lightweight version of DPNSS ' APNSS ' was developed using analogue trunks ( Sometimes compressed ) and a modem to support D channel signalling.

The DTCOI2 was designed to run PRI and DPNSS services as per existing PDTCOI and MSB7 peripherals.

When setting up PBXs to run a DPNSS connection one end must be defined as the primary or ' A ' end.

Some critics of DPNSS suggest that it is too loosely defined and allows too much latitude in its interpretation of message formats and timers.

) Levels 1-6 deal with simple call establishment ( make call / break call ) and are the minimum requirements by which a PBX can be said to be DPNSS compatible.

The Digital Private Network Signalling System ( DPNSS ) is a network protocol used on digital trunk lines for connecting two PABX.

The support for DPNSS as BT's own signaling protocol also differentiated BT's private circuit ’ s services from those of its emerging rival Mercury Communications.

Nevertheless, the elegance of the protocol and its compatibility with PBX features ensured the adoption DPNSS actually grew in Europe, compared to the much slower take-up of Qsig.

There were also attempts ( during 1984 ) to take DPNSS into North America.

DPNSS is a layer 3 protocol functioning as common channel signaling.

DPNSS carries its protocol messages as short strings of IA5 text.

For a protocol that began life in the 1980s, DPNSS is natively a long way from VoIP.

However, many of the hybrid VoIP PBXs available from manufacturers worldwide provide on-board DPNSS trunk cards.

Commercially available equipment offers the ability to convert from DPNSS to Q. Sig.

Note that it is also possible to tunnel DPNSS and its associated PCM ( G711 ) over an IP network.

This can be point to point where the IP network carries packetised voice N x 64 Kbs speech and a separate IP signalling channel to carry the notional 64 Kbs of DPNSS signalling.

It is also sometimes mistakenly believed that DPNSS is semi proprietary and that it is only possible to connect PBXs from the same manufacturer.

Experience indicates that this is not the case and BT's FeatureNet platform ( Nortel's DMS100 ) running DPNSS, has interconnected successfully to many PBX types available in the UK.

In addition, as part of the first commercial implementation of DPNSS ( in the Government Telephone Network or GTN in 1983 ), BT insisted that the core of the network be made from PBXs of different manufacture to prove the interoperability in real life.

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