AT&T 555-230-520 manual Table E-4. G2/G3 Differences for Announcement Command

Functional Differences for G2 and G3 Call Vectoring and EAS

Announcement

This command indicates that the caller should expect to hear an announcement. Although the announcement strategy G2 differs from that in G3, each strategy assures that, theoretically, the entire announcement is played from the beginning.

Table E-4. G2/G3 Differences for Announcement Command

GENERIC 3	GENERIC 2
Announcement extensions are used.	Announcement numbers are used.
Provides integrated board internal	Integrated announcement board is
announcements.	not supported.
G3i (prior to G3V2) supports only	Supports only auxiliary trunk-
analog line port-connected external	connected announcement devices.
announcement devices. All G3V2 and
later releases support auxiliary trunk-
connected external announcement
devices.
The maximum number of calls that	Limited only by the number of time
can be queued and connected to an	slots available on the module to
announcement is limited by	which the announcement channel is
preassigned queue slots. G3i has	connected. The maximum number of
150 such slots for analog ports and a	time slots is 256.
common pool of 50 slots for an
integrated board. G3i allows only 25
calls to be connected to an
announcement. G3r has 300 slots for
analog and auxiliary trunk ports and
300 slots for an integrated board. For
an integrated or auxiliary trunk, G3r
allows 255 calls to be connected to
an announcement. For an analog
trunk, G3r allows 128 calls to be
connected to an announcement.
G3V4 and later releases allow for
multiple integrated announcement
boards. G3i can have up to 5 boards,
G3r can have up to 10. The queue
slot and maximum connected calls
capacities have been increased. See
the DEFINITY Communications
System Generic 3 Feature
Description, 555- 230-204, for details

E-6Issue 4 September 1995