3Com RELEASE 2 installation manual Changing the System, Adding a Voice, Terminal

Step 6: Changing the System

Your MERLIN Plus communications system is designed so that you can make changes quickly and easily. You can increase your system’s capacity by adding outside lines or voice terminals. Modular plugs on much of the system wiring and labels on key components make it easy for you to reorganize the system in the event of office rearrangement.

The most common system changes are adding an outside line, adding a voice terminal, and moving a voice terminal.

ADDING AN OUTSIDE LINE Your MERLIN Plus system may have up to eight outside lines. If you have fewer than eight outside lines, and your system becomes so busy that people in your office frequently must wait to make calls, you may want to add one or more outside lines.

	To add lines to your system, do as follows:
	1	Have your local telephone company add the outside line(s) and network
		interface jack(s) to those you already have in place.
	2	Install a D2R line cord between the network interface and the next
		available CO line jack using the procedures in "Prepare the Network
		Interface" and "Connect the Outside Lines to the Control Unit," in "Step
		1: Installing the Control Unit."
		Contact your equipment supplier to order an additional line module if
		needed. Insert an additional line module according to the instructions in
		"Step 1: Installing the Control Unit," under "Insert the Modules."
	3	Administer the line to the voice terminals assigned to it using the
		instructions in Section 3, "Administering the System," in the System
		Manual.
	4	Label a new line button on each voice terminal where the new line
		appears.
ADDING A VOICE	You can easily add more voice terminals to your MERLIN Plus system as your
TERMINAL	business and communications demands increase. Your system can
	accommodate up to 20 voice terminals.
	We recommend that you install wiring for future growth and flexibility during
	the initial installation. To add a voice terminal to your MERLIN Plus system
	when the wiring is present:
	1	Connect the control unit to building wiring using a D8W cord. Instructions
		for this procedure are in the section "Step 2: Wiring the Voice Terminals"
		under "Voice Terminal Wiring Procedure."
	2	Connect the voice terminal to the wall jack at the telephone location.
	3	Administer the voice terminal using the procedures in Section 3,
		"Administering the System," in the System Manual.
	4	Program the voice terminal and label the buttons.

If you need an additional voice terminal module (station board), contact your equipment supplier. Install the module as described in the section "Step 1: Installing the Control Unit" under "Inserting a Voice Terminal Module."

42Step 6: Changing the System