AT&T 585-300-903 manual Amis Analog Networking

C. AMIS Analog Networking

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The AMIS Analog Networking feature is an alternative to digital networking for exchanging messages between voice mail systems. Customers using the AMIS Analog Networking feature can exchange voice mail messages with any other voice mail system, anywhere in the world, provided both systems have AMIS analog capabilities. (Messages can even be exchanged with voice mail systems made by vendors other than AT&T.) The system administrator can administer a range of remote systems that can be addressed via casual addressing (known as two-stepaddressing); individual remote voice mail systems do not need to be administered. However, the system administrator can also choose to pre-administerany specific remote voice mail systems with which their AMIS analog traffic is heavy for one-stepaddressing (this simplifies the addressing procedure).

If subscribers are to receive AMIS analog messages, the system administrator must have administered the local AUDIX to accept incoming AMIS messages. The body of an AMIS analog message is the same as any other voice mail message, but the header information may be different. For messages from remote systems administered for two-step addressing, the header includes the telephone number of the voice mail system and the mailbox ID from which the message was sent.

Two types of remote AMIS connections can be defined:

∙amisac — (AMIS casual, referred to as AMIS two-step addressing) In most cases to address AMIS analog messages via two-step addressing, users must know the AMIS prefix (if one is defined), the full telephone number (area code and country code may be necessary) of the receiving voice mail system, and the mailbox ID of the user who is to receive the message.

∙amisap — (AMIS pre-administered, referred to as AMIS one-step addressing) Subscribers can address AMIS analog messages to systems administered for one-step addressing in exactly the same way they do to a remote system networked in any other manner. When a remote system is administered for one- step addressing, remote subscribers can be administered on the local system. These administered remote subscribers can be addressed by name as well as by extension.

See AUDIX Administration (585-305-501) for information on administering the AMIS Analog Networking feature. See AUDIX Feature Descriptions (585-305-203) for an overview of the AMIS Analog Networking feature.

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