Can an Auto Dialer Understand Carrier Wave?

[Light]

Hello,

After spending a few hours searching on the internet, i've finallaly resolved my self to ask the question...

In the company where I work, we have multiple sites equipped with modems, each day we need to call these modems to get the carrier wave. If the carrier is reached it means the site has no problem and vice versa.

When I say multiple sites, to be more precise, it means 2300.

What I would like to know is if an auto dialer is capable of understanding the carrier signal and export the analysis to Excel.

If any more information is needed don't hesitate and thank you for your reading.

Light

 

[djs]

What does this have to do with insurance?

The answer is yes, but rather than a dialer, you need a modem, which can detect that it can connect to the other modem. A small piece of software to go through the list sequentially and you would be good.

It is probably a bit of custom software, but nothing overwhelming to accomplish.

Dan

 

[ksigmtsu]

The software requirement would be something like, it has to be in a language that can use a modem and make a csv file.

I'd suggest going to Odesk and searching for a C++ programmer to do this, it sounds like a couple hour job if all you want is an exe file that makes a .csv output of pass/fail when you run it. Which is probably want you should want you just didn't realize it. You probably also want a flat text file that you can modify which contains the phone numbers to be called.

You also need 2 modems doing this in order to be able to complete the test in 24 hours. So the program would need to be able to control 2 modems or you would need it running on 2 pieces of hardware controlling seperate modems with half the list.

Of course you need seperate phone lines to do that.

I believe some work has been done with voip also faxing using asterisk as a platform, so it may be that vicidial could also be modified to do what you're asking for, but I'm not certain which method would be easier.

I think your trunking provider would also cancel you after 1 month or charge you something crazy for all the short duration calls. It's probably cheaper to do with 2 modems and a custom program to use the modem to sequentially dial.

Now, call me crazy, but I wouldn't even want the output of the program. I'd just want the program to redial the failed number on any failure, and tell me if 1 of them failed to connect 3 times in a row.

Then that little computer can run all day long doing that 1 thing, and if one ever fails, it can send me an email. That seems like it would serve exactly the purpose you desire without needing a new spreadsheet every day, and it could just monitor itself.