Lucent Technologies 555-230-024 manual Bulletin Board, Busy Verification of Terminals and Trunks

Features

Bulletin Board

The bulletin board is a place on the switch where you can post information and receive messages from other switch users, including Lucent Technologies per- sonnel. Anyone with appropriate permissions can use the bulletin board for everyday messages. In addition, Lucent Technologies personnel can leave high-priority messages, which are displayed on the first 10 lines of the bulletin board.

Busy Verification of Terminals and Trunks

Allows attendants and users of multi-appearance telephones to make test calls to trunks, telephones, and hunt groups to check the status of an apparently busy resource. With this feature, an attendant or multifunction telephone user can dis- tinguish between a telephone that is truly busy and one that only appears busy because of some problem. You can also use the feature to quickly identify faulty trunks.

Call Charge Information

DEFINITY ECS provides two ways to know the approximate charge for calls made on outgoing trunks:

■Advice of Charge — For ISDN trunks

Advice of Charge (AOC) collects charge information from the public network for each outgoing call. Charge advice is a number representing the cost of a call; it is recorded as either a charging or currency unit.

■Periodic Pulse Metering — For non-ISDN trunks

Periodic Pulse Metering (PPM) accumulates pulses transmitted from the public network at periodic intervals during an outgoing trunk call. At the end of the call, the number of pulses collected is the basis for determining charges.

Call-charge information helps you to account for the cost of outgoing calls without waiting for the next bill from your network provider. This is especially important in countries where telephone bills are not itemized. You can also use this information to let employees know the cost of their phone calls, and so encourage them to help manage the company’s telecommunications expenses.

NOTE:

This feature is not offered by the public network in some countries, including the United States.

A-12Issue 5 January 1998 555-230-024