Lucent Technologies 555-670-116 Release 6.0 Enhancements February, Issue, Pocket Reference, April

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 7.0	Issue 1
Pocket Reference 555-670-116	April 1999
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■WinSPM

The System Programming and Maintenance (SPM) software is now available in a Windows format called WinSPM. For R6.1 and later systems, WinSPM provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for those tasks most commonly performed by the system manager. Pictorial representations of system components, such as modules and their vintages and the creation of MLX telephone button labels appear on WinSPM. Supported in Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 98, WinSPM is also backwards-compatible with previous DOS versions of SPM and is available on CD-ROM.

■Windows NT Driver

The MERLIN LEGEND Windows NT PBX driver is available in R6.1. When coupled with the CentreVU Telephony Services application, the driver provides true server-based Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). The new driver requires a MERLIN LEGEND System of Release 5.0 or later and servers and PCs that support the applications.

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 the extension ranges of remote networked switches to create a non-local dial plan. This programming does not actually affect numbering on the remote system. To correctly set up systems for transparent calling among non-local dial plan extensions, the system manager assigns networking tie and/ or PRI tandem trunks to pools. Then he or she programs up to 20 patterns, associated routes, Facility Restriction Levels (FRLs), digit absorption, and digit prepending. This allows ARS-like routing of non-local dial plan calls. In addition, system managers can control whether calling name, calling number, or both are shown at MLX display telephones for incoming calls across PRI tandem trunks.