Lucent Technologies 555-230-024 manual Terminal Translation Initialization

Terminal Administration

Administration Without Hardware can be used to streamline system initializations, major additions, and rearrangement/changes by allowing telephone translations to be entered before the actual ports are assigned.

DEFINITY ECS Administration Without Hardware can be used on the following terminal types:

■Analog telephones

■Digital Communications Protocol telephones

■Hybrid telephones

Large DEFINITY ECS configurations support additional terminal types to those listed above. These include:

■Attendant consoles

■Voice/computers (such as Digital Communications Protocol terminals with voice and data capabilities)

■Data modules

■ISDN Basic Rate Interface telephones and computers

■Analog queue warning ports

■Announcement circuit packs

Terminal Translation Initialization

DEFINITY ECS provides terminal translation initialization, a feature that works with Administration Without Hardware. Terminal translation initialization associates the terminal translation data with a specific port location through the entry of a spe- cial feature-access code, a terminal translation initialization security code, and an extension number from at a terminal that is connected to a wired — but untranslated — jack.

Once a terminal is connected to an appropriate jack, the terminal user can dial the appropriate codes followed by a pre-translated extension number of an Administration Without Hardware terminal. The system will complete the adminis- tration of the terminal by associating the translation data with the port location and performing appropriate checks.

Terminal translation initialization reduces the labor associated with system initial- izations, major additions, rearrangement and changes, and building wiring. Translation data entry can be performed without knowledge of the physical layout of circuit packs. End-users can move their own station equipment if a building is wired to support it, reducing costs for station moves. Individual lines need only be wired to the correct type of port, rather than a specific port.

System administrators maintain control over the use of terminal translation initial- ization through security codes. By activating and deactivating security codes,

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