
MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1 | Issue 1 | |
Network Reference | August 1998 | |
1 Introduction |
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| Networking Concepts | Page |
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| Benefits of Networking | 1 |
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Available for Hybrid/PBX mode systems, the private network features of the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0 and later provide the following advantages for geographically dispersed organizational sites:
■Toll Savings. Private networked trunks allow you to realize significant cost savings on toll calls by performing tandem switching in the following two ways:
—Callers on a local system can reach the PSTN via outside trunks connected to other systems in a private network, avoiding toll charges or substantially decreasing the cost of toll calls. For example, if you are in Cincinnati and another site in your company is in Dallas, you can make a call to a number in the Dallas local calling area over your private network, decreasing toll costs.
—In addition, organizations use private networked trunks to make calls between networked systems, which may be geographically distant from one another. Using the example above, from your office in Cincinnati you can dial an extension at a sister site in Dallas, just as you would dial an extension on your own local system, without a costly
■Service Cost Savings. In addition to toll call savings, there are two other ways that organizations can save on service costs incurred from telecommunications providers that provide PSTN access:
—You order a
—You can tailor your use of PRI
NOTE:
The 24th T1 channel must not be dropped before reaching the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System because MERLIN LEGEND uses the 24th channel as the PRI
—You can tailor your use of T1 channels to support a mix of