Lucent Technologies 555-661-140 manual Release 6.0 Enhancements February, Private Networks

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1	Issue 1	Issue 1
Installation 555-661-140	August 1998August 1998
Prior Releases Features and Enhancements
Release 6.0 Enhancements (February, 1998)	Page xxix

Prior Releases Features and

Enhancements

Release 6.0 Enhancements (February, 1998)

Release 6.0 includes all Release 5.0 functionality, plus the enhancements listed below.

Private Networks

In Hybrid/PBX mode systems only, MERLIN LEGEND Communications Systems can be networked with one another or with DEFINITY®Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) and ProLogix®Communications Systems in private networks. In previous releases, this functionality is available using tie lines, but users handle calls between networked switches as outside calls. In this release, dialing the pool access code is not necessary for a call going from one networked switch to another. Also, delay-start tie trunks or T1 trunks administered as PRI can act as tandem trunks to connect networked systems.

Available for Hybrid/PBX mode systems, the private network features of the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0 provide the following advantages for geographically dispersed organizational sites:

■Intersystem Calling. In a private network, users on one local system can call extensions on other systems in the network. Release 6.0 can support 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-digit dial plans. They dial these extensions as inside calls. To implement this function, the system manager programs