AT&T 7300 series About this Document, Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge, Document Organization

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT

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This document explains how to arrange two or more communications systems in a network. It also tells how to use your communications system to connect one data communications device or network to another device or network.

This document is for AT&T sales teams and customers who are responsible for:

∙Designing telecommunications networks

∙Interfacing data processing devices or networks through a communications system

PREREQUISITE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

To use this document, you should be familiar with the communications systems you intend to include in the network. The following documents describe AT&T communications systems:

∙An Introduction to AT&T DEFINITY® 75/85 Communication System Generic 1 (555-200-024)

∙An Introduction to DEFINITY® 75/85 Communications System Generic 2 (555-104-020)

∙AT&T DEFINITY® 75/85 Communication System Generic 1 System Description (555-204-200)

∙DEFINITY® Communications System Generic 2 and System 85 System Description (555-104-201)

∙DIMENSION® System Description and Planning (554-111-100)

For network implementation particulars, you may also find the following documents helpful:

∙AT&T DEFINITY® 75/85 Communications System Generic 1.1 Implementation (555-204-654)

∙DEFINITY® Communications System Generic 2 and System 85 Feature Descriptions (555-104-301)

∙AT&T DEFINITY® 75/85 Communications System Generic 1 and System 75 and System 75 XE Feature Descriptions (555-200-201)

Appendix A, Related Documents, lists the names of other documents you may need to refer to for more detailed information.

DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION

This document has two major sections: Part I covers communications system networking, and Part II describes data connectivity. The document contains the following chapters.

∙Chapter 1 — Introduction to Connectivity — Explains concepts and devices that are common to both the communications system networking and the data connectivity sections of the manual. These areas of shared interest include: transmission types, transmission states, multiplexing, and trunking.

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